Texas judge allows Kate Cox to abort fetus with lethal abnormality

[babylonsister]

Texas judge allows Kate Cox to abort fetus with lethal abnormality
Thursday, December 07, 2023 at 11:16:04a EST
By Eleanor Klibanoff
The Texas Tribune


For the first time in at least 50 years, a judge has intervened to allow an adult Texas woman to terminate her pregnancy.

When Travis County District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble handed down the temporary restraining order Thursday, Kate Cox, 31, of Dallas burst into tears. Cox and her husband desperately wanted to have this baby, but her doctors said continuing the nonviable pregnancy posed a risk to her health and future fertility, according to a historic lawsuit filed Tuesday.

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A week after she first received the diagnosis, Cox and her husband, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a lawsuit asking a judge to grant a temporary restraining order, allowing them to terminate this pregnancy.

“It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye to my baby, but when,” Cox said in a statement. “I’m trying to do what is best for my baby and myself, but the state of Texas is making us both suffer.”

After a 45 minute Zoom hearing Thursday, Gamble ruled that Cox should be allowed to terminate the pregnancy, and that Dr. Damla Karsan, a Houston OB/GYN, should be protected from civil and criminal penalties if she performs the procedure.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/7/2210273/-Texas-judge-allows-Kate-Cox-to-abort-fetus-with-lethal-abnormality

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. K & R!!! I'm so very relieved for her!

[NNadir]

5. I'm disgusted she had to go to court to address a private health issue.

Does Holy Sam Alito need a court order to handle his Viagra prescriptions?

[Mr.Bill]

6. And have her name disclosed. n/t

[StarryNite]

7. It's appalling that it has come to this.

But since it has, when do we get to vote on whether or not men should be allowed prescriptions for ED problems?

[Upthevibe]

2. babylonsister............

Thanks for posting....

[patphil]

3. An example of the "new normal" in Texas.

A pregnant woman has to have a judge grant her control of her own body.
The Texas Right to Life group (read the article) talks about compassion, but hasn't got even the slightest bit of compassion. Under the guise of protecting the child, they are willing to inflict serious harm, both physical and psychological, on the mother.
Here's a quote from the article:

“Every child is uniquely precious and should continue to be protected in law no matter how long or short the baby’s life may be,” the group said in a statement. “The compassionate approach to these heartbreaking diagnoses is perinatal palliative care, which honors, rather than ends, the child’s life.”

I take issue with the characterization of their approach as being compassionate. Sadistic is more like it; callous at best.
Claiming their approach is perinatal palliative care is simply disguising their callous disregard for mother and child with medical terms while they pretend they are honoring life.
Women cannot be treated as reproductive slaves!

[UTUSN]

4. K&R

[Warpy]

8. I think they're getting frightened

that they have overstepped their bounds and that they're all going to be at risk of being kicked out of office and off the bench by a wave of furious women who don't want a bunch of ignorant men telling women what they can and can not do with their own bodies.

I hope that happens, anyway. One woman successfully suing to get appropriate health care doesn't mean hundreds won't be denied this year because doctors are scared of these stupid laws.

[Hekate]

10. They ought to be pants-wettingly frightened. This should have been a strictly medical decision...

… between this woman and people with M.D. after their names, not some judge with no medical training and certainly not a legislature filled with pig-ignorant yahoos.

[Hekate]

9. KnR

[ShazzieB]

11. I'm so relieved for this woman.

Also appalled that she had to go to such lengths to be able to do what is obviously medically appropriate for her, but mostly relieved.

I'm also very interested to see what the aftermath will be. I expect the Texas AG (I forget his name) will appeal the decision, because that's the kind of scumbag he is. I just hope she isn't impeded in getting the pregnancy terminated. I also hope this, together within the lawsuit that is now in progress, will get at least a few people to sit up and take notice that some pregnancies really are doomed, and much harm can very done by insisting they must continue.

[Jean Genie]

12. Hard won victory

So outrageous that an adult woman, already the mother of two, who wanted her third baby, should have to jump through hoops to be "permitted" to terminate a pregnancy that could cause her bodily harm, or even prevent her from ever again getting pregnant. Tell me oh great decision makers (who are in many cases white men who stand relatively little chance of getting pregnant), why you all know better than the pregnant woman or her physician. Compassion or control? I think we can figure that one out pretty easily.

[sjr2323]

13. It takes a village, a village full of women.

That is all.

[NowISeetheLight]

14. Fxxk the Texas AG

I just read this on NBC News. To think the Texas Attorney General tried to stop it. Fxxk Them!!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna128537

Doctor:
She argued during the hearing that Cox was "at high risk for multiple pregnancy complications including hypertension, gestational diabetes and infection," and said that within the last two days, Cox had to visit an emergency room for a fourth time "for pregnancy symptoms including severe cramps leaking fluid and elevated vital signs.

"Many of Miss Cox’s health risks during this pregnancy will put her life in danger if left untreated, and carrying this pregnancy to term will significantly increase the risks to her future fertility, meaning that she and her husband may not be able to have more children in the future," Duane said."

Stupid TX AG Lawyer:
Johnathan Stone, an attorney with the Texas attorney general's office who represented the state in the hearing, argued that Cox and her husband had not sufficiently demonstrated that they would suffer "immediate and irreparable injury" without an abortion.

"The only party that’s going to suffer an immediate and irreparable harm in this case" if the judge grants the requested order, he said, "is the state."

Stone pushed instead for an evidentiary hearing, saying an emergency order would enable the couple to get an abortion that "can’t be undone" before the court could fully consider the evidence."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. The TX AG is being an asshole

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