The Texas Supreme Court unanimously denied a significant challenge to Texas’ near-total abortion ban, brought by 20 patients who were denied abortion care despite facing life-threatening pregnancy complications, as well as two doctors. In the decision, the judges refused to clarify exceptions to the state law’s abortion bans, ruling on Friday that the medical exceptions in the law would withstand constitutional challenge.
She ultimately survived, but the infection caused one of her fallopian tubes to become permanently closed, compromising her future ability to have children,” according to the Center. “This outrageous ruling clearly demonstrates that Texas’s ‘medical exceptions’ to its extreme abortion bans just don’t work,” Molly Duane, senior staff attorney at the Center said in a statement.
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