Texas Supreme Court Halts Pro-Abortion Order by Lower Court

Published on December 9, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from getting an emergency abortion, a lower court decision in a lawsuit by a pregnant woman seeking a court-authorized abortion, with the move blocking her ability to terminate the pregnancy. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday temporarily halted a lower court’ decision that granted a pregnant woman the ability to get an emergency court-authorized abortion despite the state’s strict rules against getting one. The high court’s Dec. 9 decision came after a district court a day earlier granted a request for an emergency abortion in a lawsuit brought by Kate Cox, a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant and whose unborn baby was diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a condition that causes multiple structural abnormalities that doctors said gave it no chance of survival after birth....