Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller, who will defend the law at the Supreme Court, said Texas acted in response to the high-profile case of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. He is serving a life sentence after his conviction for killing three babies born alive and for the overdose ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not decide a dispute over emergency abortions in Texas. The justices declined to take up the case challenging a lower court order that says hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations.Oct 8, 2024...
Texas said its case is different, however, because the law provides some exceptions if a pregnant patient’s health is at risk. Texas pointed to a state Supreme Court ruling that said doctors do not have to wait until a woman’s life is in immediate danger to ...
The Texas Supreme Court determined that the state abortion ban did not put the plaintiff’s health at risk, reversing a decision by lower courts. The plaintiff in this case was comprised of several Texas women who had health issues during their desired pregnancies. They argued that the...
Texas abortion case could have wide ramificationsThe article reports that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear on March 2, 2016 arguments in the case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt which could lead to amendments to U.S. abortion lawsSchenckerLisaEBSCO_AspModern Healthcare...
Some social media posts are using the criminal sentencing of a man in Texas to criticize the state’s strict abortion law
provide or support out-of-state abortion care. Monday’s Texas Supreme Court opinion was limited only to Cox’s case, and the court declined to elaborate on the details of the medical exception. The narrow ruling will surely only fan Paxton’s prosecutorial flames, as it dovetails perfectly ...
Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Organization, which stripped Americans of their constitutional right to abortion. Cox’s case is the first case since Roe v. Wade in which a woman who was actively pregnant sued to be able to end her pregnancy. The Texas...
Supreme Court rules Texas abortion clinics can sue over law The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion clinics can sue over the ban but won't stop the law from being enforced. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state's ...
Kate Cox, a 31 year old woman from the Dallas-Fort Worth area who had asked a court for an order allowing her to get an abortion under the medical emergency exception to Texas' near-total ban and will leave the state to receive care while the state's highest court ...