9 Mar 2023 7:50 pm
One of these women was denied an abortion after her water broke at 19 weeks — too early for the fetus to survive.AUSTIN — Five women who were denied abortions under Texas law while facing medical crises are suing the state, asking a judge to clarify exceptions to the laws.
"[The women] have been denied necessary and potentially life-saving obstetrical care because medical professionals throughout the state fear liability under Texas's abortion bans," says the lawsuit, filed in state court by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of the five women and two doctors.
"Just because Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land does not mean that women and pregnant people are without constitutional and basic human rights," says Molly Duane, senior staff attorney with the center.
"We're talking about people who are in medical emergencies, who need urgent medical care and whose physicians are too scared to provide that care because of the state's laws and because of the state's failure to provide any clarification around what its law means."
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Fearing the prospect of severe infection, she had to fly to Colorado for a termination.
Four of these five women had to go to another state to seek care for their medically complex pregnancies.
Somebody is going to die eventually and the blood will be on Greg Abbott's hands and the hands of the Texas legislature.