The all-Republican court rejected the women's request to clarify the law despite numerous accounts that it is too broad for doctors to intervene.
The Texas Supreme Court declined Friday to provide relief for nearly two dozen women who sued over the state abortion ban’s emergency exception, rejecting their request to clarify the law despite numerous accounts that it is too broad for doctors to intervene. Texas law bans all abortions except to save a pregnant person’s life or prevent “substantial impairment of major bodily function.”
Texas Supreme Court appears hesitant to clarify emergency exception in state's abortion ban “The law does not require that a woman’s death be imminent or that she first suffer physical impairment,” the opinion reads. “Rather, Texas law permits a physician to address the risk that a life-threatening condition poses before a woman suffers the consequences of that risk.
Texas women recount traumatic pregnancies in hearing over state's abortion ban The condition can cause serious, sometimes -fatal complications for the mother, and survival rates for the fetus are low. Days later, Zurawski developed sepsis, a life-threatening condition that is the body’s extreme response to an infection, and eventually doctors performed an abortion.
Doctors will get legal cover for some emergency abortions under new Texas law The court noted that the Legislature last session moved to clarify the law to explicitly state that the condition, known as PPROM, or preterm premature rupture of membranes, is an exception to the abortion ban. Ectopic pregnancies were also spelled out as allowed. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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