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Texas Supreme Court Puts Onus on Medical Profession, Upholds Anti-Abortion Law

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Justice Jane Bland Texas Supreme Court Justice Jane Bland. Credit: Supreme Court of Texas.

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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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