A judge has ruled Texas' abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications.
Source: Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges.
The ruling is the first to undercut Texas’ law since it took effect in 2022 and delivers a major victory to abortion rights supporters, who see the case as a potential blueprint to weaken restrictions elsewhere that Republican-led states have rushed to implement.
“For the first time in a long time, I cried for joy when I heard the news,” lead plaintiff Amanda Zurawski said in a statement. “This is exactly why we did this. This is why we put ourselves through the pain and the trauma over and over again to share our experiences and the harms caused by these awful laws.”
The challenge is believed to be the first in the U.S. brought by women who have been denied abortions since the Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade, which for nearly 50 years
had affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/abortion-texas-lawsuit-ban-exceptions-women-denied-pregnancy-d90f3bce68d86e5eafe3ba4ba5939188
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PortTack
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summer_in_TX
(4,168 posts)I'd love to be proved wrong though.
LeftInTX
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Thank you to the brave women who fought this battle.
Hekate
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Beartracks
(14,609 posts)... that wasn't "hussies just want to have sex."
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(135,789 posts)and hopefully Gawd will let them into heaven.
Lonestarblue
(13,487 posts)things to women—and LGBTQ+. They haven’t shown any concern whatsoever about those pesky teaching in the Bible to take care of the poor, to accept the stranger, or to show compassion to anyone. Rather, they love their Old Testament teachings to beat the children and force women to be chattel.
SouthernDem4ever
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BlueIn_W_Pa
(842 posts)took complete control of the (R) party, so much more than just another political group
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)Where it's okay to have slaves, take girls as war booty (read: rape them), force women to marry their rapists, kidnap women and rape them to force them into marriage, kill women who don't scream when they're raped in a city, torture people forever for disagreeing, kill homosexuals, kill "witches," kill people for working on the Sabbath, kill people for wearing mixed fabrics, kill people for eating shrimp, kill children for teasing bald guys, kill people when their ruler holds a census...
And before you go there, all of that is absolutely legal as per the "new" book's demigod. See: Matthew 5:17-18.
This is the problem with citing the book to criticize people for not being good. It's child's play to refute that when the book has so much horrifying in it.
Anyone who's actually read the whole thing knows that.
NowsTheTime
(1,316 posts)State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum on Friday issued a temporary exemption to Texas’ abortion ban. Hours later, the attorney general’s office filed an appeal, which blocked the order.
Editor's note: This story was updated to include comments from the Texas Attorney General's office, which has appealed the order.
A Texas judge on Friday issued a temporary exemption to the state’s abortion ban that would allow women with complicated pregnancies to obtain the procedure and keep doctors free from prosecution if they determined the fetus would not survive after birth.
But hours later, the attorney general's office filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court, blocking the judge's order from taking effect.
Novara
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