Texas woman asks judge to let her terminate pregnancy after lethal fetal diagnosis

[riversedge]

Source: texas tribune




In an emergency request, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a judge to allow Kate Cox to terminate her pregnancy after she received a lethal fetal diagnosis.


Eleanor Klibanoff Dec. 5, 2023 Updated: 1 hour ago



A Texas woman has filed an emergency lawsuit, asking a Travis County judge to allow her to terminate her pregnancy.

This is the first time since before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 that an adult woman has asked a court to intervene to allow her to terminate a pregnancy, and the first lawsuit of its kind since Texas banned almost all abortions in 2022.

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas woman, learned last week that her fetus was diagnosed with full trisomy 18, a chromosomal anomaly that is almost always fatal before or soon after birth. The fetus is developing with an umbilical hernia, a twisted spine, a club foot and an irregular skull and heart, according to the lawsuit.

Cox, who already has two children, both delivered by Cesarean section, also has elevated glucose and underlying health conditions. The lawsuit alleges she is at increased risk of gestational hypertension and diabetes and complications from anesthesia and cesarean section, if she were to carry the pregnancy to term...................

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

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It is bad enough to hear it is a fetal diagnosis but now is forced to carry to term--if judge decides so.

[PSPS]

1. Will the judge come into the courtroom wearing his miter and carrying his book of superstitions (bible?)

Those, alone, denote his expertise in the practice of medicine.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. So we want people without medical expertise to decide these type of issues?

WTF is wrong with "pro-lfe" people?

[riversedge]

4. We are the USA where only women living in blue or bluish states can have Reproductive rights.

Sick!

[walkingman]

9. Same applies for most rights these days. It is bizarre that you can

travel across a state line and on one side something is legal and on the other a felony.

[slightlv]

18. It wasn't suppose to be like this...

continuity in laws across states was the ideal for generations. It only took one party... and one party instigator... to take it all down. When we get back the government... in full... we need to make some necessary changes. This must never be allowed to happen again.

[TexasDem69]

24. That's simply wrong

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_law_in_the_United_States_by_state#

[riversedge]

3. Some information from Center for Reproductive Rights...........

Texas won't let Kate Cox get an abortion even though her fetus has a fatal genetic anomaly and she is suffering agonizing, ongoing pain. She just sued in state court demanding the right to terminate the failed pregnancy immediately.

https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/upl

Link to tweet

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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

.........The lawsuit says that Cox cannot wait for the Supreme Court to rule and asks the judge to grant a temporary restraining order, prohibiting enforcement of Texas’ abortion bans against Cox and her husband, as well as Dr. Damla Karsan, an OB/GYN who has agreed to perform the abortion, and her employees. Karsan is a plaintiff in Zurawski v. Texas as well. Cox’s lawsuit also asks for a declaratory judgement that finds the state’s abortion bans do not apply to patients with emergent medical conditions.

Molly Duane, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, agreed with Klusmann that most people experiencing a pregnancy complication won’t be able to file a lawsuit. And with such a novel litigation strategy, she said it was unclear whether the courts would act quickly enough to actually get Cox the relief she seeks in a timely manner.

“This is not a normal or reasonable or feasible way for health care to be practiced in this country,” Duane said.

If a judge grants a temporary restraining order, the Office of the Attorney General cannot directly appeal or block that order, as it has with the injunction in the Zurawski case. But the state could ask a higher court to intervene through a writ of mandamus filing, which would delay and possibly deny Cox’s request for an abortion. And a temporary restraining order would not likely extend beyond Cox’s case, meaning other patient seeking an abortion on similar grounds would need to go to court themselves.

[Traildogbob]

5. Food for thought

If Hamas or Russian thugs attack America while Trump leaves the door open for those types, all the women and children that get raped will have to carry the child to term. And our religious leaders call that pregnancy a blessing.
Wait, we could bet our asses the AMERICAN Trump terrorist military would be doing raping as well as they round up all the vermin.

[bluestarone]

6. ALL these cultists bastards are willing to give up the rights of every American citizen, just to stop

ALL WOMAN from the right to choose!! Nothing worse that a RETHUGLICON!

[Major Nikon]

7. Judges are elected in Texas

Fortunately Travis county is a democrat stronghold (Austin), so the woman at least stands a chance of not getting a forced birther judge.

[walkingman]

8. Texas gets more backwards by the day. The only cure is for more people to vote.

Until then we have to tolerate the Gov., Lt. Gov., AG and most of the State Legislature.

Sorry bastards.

[Lonestarblue]

10. Exactly what Texas wants--right-wing legislatures and judges making women's medical decisions.

After all, everyone knows that pregnancy is perfectly natural and women never have any complications. If they die, it just God’s will or because she did something wrong and deserved to die. These people make me sick with their judgmental attitudes and their ignorance about pregnancy, which is actually quite dangerous for many women.

[ShazzieB]

12. They also refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a fetal anomaly that amounts to a death sentenece. 😡

And besides, there is always the possibility of a miracle, so we must always "choose life" and let the lord decide!

God, these people make me sick with their warped, twisted, convoluted, so-called "reasoning"!

[Warpy]

11. Well, they don't care about the kid

They care about punishing her for sex, doesn't matter if she was married.

That's how these men think.

[slightlv]

19. She wasn't married to the "right kind" of man...

he is probably a democrat. We already have less rights just by virtue of that designation... they just haven't codified it (yet).

[jaxexpat]

13. And so it begins.

The horror of a police state with all it's oppressive invasions of privacy, the very thing the GOP claims to be such a left wing threat, the very thing they have stupidly planted, begins to bloom.

[RainCaster]

14. Why waste your time on a TX court?

Just get on a plane. Cheaper, faster, safer and more certain.

[CTyankee]

17. I read a fewmonths ago about women pilots who were doing just that: flying women to abortion access states from

anti-choice states.

[Bev54]

15. This is sick, forcing a woman to go to court to ask a judge to make a medical decision.

Absolutely sick and disgusting that in the US this is made to happen.

[Novara]

16. As if abortion was never legal in the first place

This is what happened pre-1973.

I'm betting the judge won't allow it. Judges are not doctors but some think they're God.

[PlutosHeart]

20. So now the Court is the Dr?

This position alone should give perspective on things.

[Kablooie]

21. It's about controlling women, not about logic or humanity.

Your feelings are of no importance, so I will force you to suffer to demonstrate my power over you.

[dlk]

22. This is about Republican dedication to the subjugation of women

Imagine, in 2023, an adult woman having to beg a court to receive necessary medical care. It's worse than third world. Republicans truly are the women-haters party.

[BOSSHOG]

23. SIXTH GRADER ASKS JUDGE

not to let bad guy with AR 15 slaughter him and his classmates. Judge weighs the political implications of his ruling. The 6th grader and some of his classmates are slaughtered. Republicans gather for a prayer vigil. Thoughts and prayers overwhelm the county. And the band played on.

[electric_blue68]

25. Patriarchal pigs! That poor woman!

Someday waaay more men, and many more of the minority of women who go along with them will see women, or themselves as people first!

Hopefully I'll live cogently long enough to see some shift beyond a paltry percentage. 👍

[niyad]

26. And the PATRIARCHAL WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. NO woman should

EVER have to beg for "PERMISSION" to save her own life. Especially not from some non-medical, christofascist, woman-hating enforcer, not of laws, but of beliefs.

[Bayard]

27. Right to life...

This baby will never have a life. But rethuglicans insist on risking the mother's life anyway.

That being said, with this woman's medical history, why did she get pregnant?

[Old Crank]

28. Time to flood the courts

With emergency petitions.
Any fetal issue at all. Emergency petitions.
Any question about a pregnancy..

[Old Crank]

29. The cost of litigation

Needs to be part of your health insurance.

[CousinIT]

30. NO WOMAN should have to beg a judge to terminate a pregnancy.

EVER.

[barbtries]

31. just the fact that she has to beg a judge

raises my blood pressure.

[LaMouffette]

32. The right thinks this is perfectly reasonable. But just think how they would howl if, to purchase an AK-47,

they had to go before a judge to have him/her decide whether they really needed that AK-47, and additionally, if they had to go to counseling to determine if they were psychologically healthy enough to own an AK-47, and also, if they had to watch videos of children being killed in mass shootings before being allowed to purchase an AK-47.

And imagine if there were protesters outside of every gun shop and every gun show, screaming, "BABY KILLER! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!" at everyone walking out with their new AK-47.

Hmm . . . it actually makes a hell of a lot more sense to treat AK-47 purchasers this way, at least to me, than it does to subject women seeking abortions to the additional trauma of having to seek approval from a judge, whose opinion will undoubtedly be influenced by his/her religious beliefs on the matter.