Center for the Reproductive Rights, which is representing Kate Cox, says she left after being ‘in and out of the emergency room’
The Texas woman who sued the state for an abortion after receiving a lethal fetal diagnosis has now fled Texas in order to obtain the procedure, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced in a statement Monday.
The woman, Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from Dallas, sued Texas last week. While a lower-court judge ruled to allow Cox to receive an abortion, the Texas state supreme court on Friday paused that ruling. In her lawsuit, Cox said that continuing the pregnancy could threaten her life and future fertility.
Texas bans almost all abortions. Although the ban technically includes exceptions for cases of medical emergencies, doctors have said that the exceptions are too vague and force them to wait until their patients get sick enough to intervene.
Thus setting up the legal fight the GoP wanted in the first place. They’re going to sue that poor woman for thousands that she doesn’t have, all in order to enforce their laws across state lines.
Partly hoping she just never goes back
Hoping she starts a gofundme. I’d toss some dollars at her to fight the case.
I will too but it’s going to feel like I’m the kid that uses all his birthday money to help pay for his parents cancer treatment. Heartwarmingly heartwrenching.
Same - would support a gofundme too
I would venture the Center for Reproductive Rights has a strategy beyond “get an abortion out of state.”
100% they do