The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

In a unanimous ruling, the all-Republican court upheld the Texas law that opponents say is too vague when it comes to when medically necessary exceptions are allowed. The same issue was at the center of a separate lawsuit brought last year by Kate Cox, a mother of two from Dallas, who sought court permission to obtain an abortion after her fetus developed a fatal condition during a pregnancy that resulted in multiple trips to an emergency room.

Abortion rights activists have struggled to stem the tide of restrictions that have taken effect in most Republican-led states since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe vs Wade, which for nearly 50 years had affirmed the constitutional right to an abortion.

The court said the law’s exceptions, as written, are broad enough and that doctors would be misinterpreting the law if they declined to perform an abortion when the mother’s life is in danger.

  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Conservative women hate women just as much as the men do, that’s the impressive bit.

    I mean, so long as you define “hating women” to mean “opposing abortion” then sex isn’t really relevant to who hates women - despite some folks who pretend otherwise it really isn’t a men vs women issue, men are pro choice at about the same rate as women.

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      5 months ago

      mean, so long as you define “hating women” to mean “opposing abortion”

      I do. Next question.