(TheRedAlertNews.com) – BREAKING NEWS ALERT: In a case underscoring the complexities surrounding state abortion bans now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned and abortion law returned to the individual states, the Texas Supreme Court overturned a woman’s previously granted abortion permission shortly after she had left the state to have the procedure elsewhere.
Late Monday, the Supreme Court of Texas reversed a decision by a lower court that had approved a woman’s application for an abortion.
This occurred hours after she had departed to have the procedure in a different state, National Review reports.
Earlier on Monday, Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, announced that Kate Cox, a 31-year-old woman who is 20 weeks pregnant, had to leave Texas to “get the time-sensitive abortion care needed to protect her health and future fertility.”
This action came in the wake of the Texas Supreme Court’s Friday ruling, which put on hold the earlier approval for Cox to have an abortion.
Her medical team and attorney had argued that this procedure was critical to saving her life.
Later on Monday, the state Supreme Court instructed the lower court to revoke its earlier ruling, stating that Cox’s legal representation failed to convincingly show that she met the criteria for a medical exemption.
“Cox’s doctor ‘asked a court to pre-authorize the abortion yet she could not, or at least did not, attest to the court that Ms. Cox’s condition poses the risks the exception requires,’” the court stated in its decision.
“These laws reflect the policy choice that the Legislature has made, and the courts must respect that choice,” the ruling added.
Cox had initiated legal action against the state of Texas after learning that her fetus was diagnosed with full trisomy 18, a rare genetic disorder that severely hinders the physical development of a fetus.
According to data from the Cleveland Clinic, about 95% of fetuses with this condition do not survive to term, usually resulting in miscarriage or stillbirth.
In her lawsuit, Cox claimed that her doctors advised her that continuing with the pregnancy would negatively impact her health and future fertility.
She had received authorization from a judge in Texas to undergo the abortion one day before the state Supreme Court temporarily blocked this approval following an appeal by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against the lower court’s decision.
“While Kate had the ability to leave the state, most people do not, and a situation like this could be a death sentence,” Northup said.
