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Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/08/ken-paxton-texas-abortion-kate-cox- The Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has threatened to prosecute any doctor who provides an abortion to Kate Cox, a woman with a non-viable pregnancy, advising hospitals to ignore a court order issued on Thursday allowing her to get the procedure.
The rightwing Paxton issued the warning to three Houston-area hospitals after a Texas judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, may obtain an abortion under the narrow medical exceptions offered by the state bans.
and an update:
The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion in a ruling issued late Friday.
The court froze a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, who sued the state, to obtain the procedure. The ruling came after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton petitioned the high court to intervene in the case.
This story is awful to read. This woman knows she has a non-viable pregnancy as confirmed by multiple hospitals and instead of being able to seek the medical care she needs, a scumbag like Ken Paxton, is dictating what care she can receive. This is exactly why whenever this issue comes up for a vote why the lunatic religious conservatives lose. Hopefully this will galvanize more people to fight back against this kind of third world theocratic shit in the future.
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