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Despite evidence that Texas doctors delay medically necessary abortions until the mother’s life is at imminent risk of death or loss of major organ function, the court held the anti-abortion law provides doctors with sufficient discretion.
May 31, 2024 at 02:28 PM
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What You Need to Know
- The Texas Supreme Court vacated a trial court injunction to protect women with life-threatening pregnancies, upholding the state’s ant-abortion law in its entirety.
- The court said the 2021 law already gives doctors sufficient discretion to act before a life-threatening event occurs.
- Plaintiffs’ evidence showed the medical profession is consistently reluctant to act because of threats made by the attorney general.
The Texas Supreme Court ordered a trial court injunction entered to protect women with life-threatening pregnancies be vacated, and upheld the state’s anti-abortion law in its entirety.
The opinion delivered by Justice Jane Bland was a full-throated defense of the Human Life Protection Act of 2021.
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