Center for the Reproductive Rights, which is representing Kate Cox, says she left after being ‘in and out of the emergency room’
The Texas woman who sued the state for an abortion after receiving a lethal fetal diagnosis has now fled Texas in order to obtain the procedure, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced in a statement Monday.
The woman, Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from Dallas, sued Texas last week. While a lower-court judge ruled to allow Cox to receive an abortion, the Texas state supreme court on Friday paused that ruling. In her lawsuit, Cox said that continuing the pregnancy could threaten her life and future fertility.
Texas bans almost all abortions. Although the ban technically includes exceptions for cases of medical emergencies, doctors have said that the exceptions are too vague and force them to wait until their patients get sick enough to intervene.
IANAL, but it seems to me that if the State deliberately restricts a life saving procedure they have effectively sentenced you to death without due process, violating the 14th amendment (since it’s a Texas state law).
They’re just going to argue that they didn’t deliberately restrict it, they paused it, because she wasn’t in life-threatening danger YET.
Remember, the cruelty and suffering of women is the point, they get off on it.
Plus, they want this shit to go in front of the SC so they’ll rule in favor of it.
Obama’sAbbott’s Death Panels.Their point of view is that you are sentencing an unborn child to death without due process. Then if you try to argue medical science, they counter with God’s will. Good luck.
Thus setting up the legal fight the GoP wanted in the first place. They’re going to sue that poor woman for thousands that she doesn’t have, all in order to enforce their laws across state lines.
Partly hoping she just never goes back
Hoping she starts a gofundme. I’d toss some dollars at her to fight the case.
I will too but it’s going to feel like I’m the kid that uses all his birthday money to help pay for his parents cancer treatment. Heartwarmingly heartwrenching.
Same - would support a gofundme too
I would venture the Center for Reproductive Rights has a strategy beyond “get an abortion out of state.”
100% they do
Evil. Pure evil.
If you vote republican, you support this evil.
I’m glad she got out of that hellhole and is presumably getting help but I’d be gladder if we could not have so much evil seemingly everywhere, just looking to hurt people for fun or profit.
… Seriously this shit’s disgusting. You’d think even a minimally sentient species would grow out of this crap but no, here I am (in current year, no less!) making weird obscure references to keep myself from being ill from reading news again.
What the GOP have done to women in this country is utterly unconscionable. My whole life until these last couple of years, I really never believed that it would be possible to roll back our rights so badly. Once something is a right, it’s supposed to be a right. Unviolable. Once they get it banned federally, they’ll just go after gay, trans, and other minorities even harder. They’re trying to undo all of the rights we earned in the '60s and '70s.
Can’t any Texan sue her now in a civil case?
I hope someone does, so that stupid law can finally go in front of a court. Her attorneys know what they’re doing
