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Texas top court weighs scope of abortion ban exception for risky pregnancies

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Texas passed the law in 2021, when abortion was still legal nationwide under the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

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  1. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state's Supreme Court | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state's Supreme Court

  2. Washington Examiner

    Texas Supreme Court to hear case challenging state's abortion law (opens Washington Examiner)

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    The Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in a case that claims the state's abortion laws are too restrictive and harm women with medically complicated pregnancies because hospitals and doctors are unwilling to perform the procedure in almost all circumstances.

  3. NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

    Texas women who couldn't get abortions take challenge to state's Supreme Court (opens NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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    The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious risks to their health.

  4. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state's Supreme Court (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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    The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state's abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious risks to their health.

  5. KVUE

    Texas Supreme Court to hear case against state's abortion ban on Tuesday (opens KVUE)

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    If the Supreme Court rules in favor of AG Paxton's appeal, these bans will remain in place, severely limiting abortions and access in Texas.

  6. Duluth News Tribune

    Texas top court weighs scope of abortion ban exception for risky pregnancies (opens Duluth News Tribune)

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    Texas passed the law in 2021, when abortion was still legal nationwide under the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.

  7. Fox News

    Texas abortion ban challenged as oral arguments begin (opens Fox News)

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    A group of patients and doctors in Texas is challenging the state's near-total abortion ban, arguing that it endangers women's lives, particularly those with medical conditions.

  8. FOX 4 Dallas

    Texas Supreme Court hears arguments in abortion law challenge (opens FOX 4 Dallas)

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    The state’s abortion laws will be challenged Tuesday before the Texas Supreme Court. Lawyers will be making their cases in a fight that’s been going on for months.

  9. The Guardian

    The women who made painful choices challenge Texas’s severe abortion ban (opens The Guardian)

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    The state supreme court will consider arguments from 20 women who say they were denied medically necessary abortions

  10. ABC 7 New York

    Abortion suit challenging Texas bans appears before state Supreme Court (opens ABC 7 New York)

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    The Texas Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in an ongoing lawsuit challenging its multiple abortion bans. Twenty women say the bans put their lives in danger.

  11. NPR

    Texas abortion case goes before state's highest court, as more women join lawsuit (opens NPR)

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    Dr. Dani Mathisen is one of 20 patients who say abortion bans in Texas harmed them during complicated pregnancies. Attorneys in the lawsuit will argue before the Texas Supreme Court Tuesday.

  12. KHOU Houston

    Texas Supreme Court to hear arguments Tuesday in lawsuit challenging abortion law (opens KHOU Houston)

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    Current Texas law bans and criminalizes abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger. However, plaintiffs said the exception is unclear.

  13. NPR

    Texas justices hear a case about the state's three overlapping bans on abortion (opens NPR)

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    The Texas Supreme Court held a hearing on the state's medical exception to its abortion bans. Plaintiffs including women and doctors say the law is endangering lives in complicated wanted pregnancies.

  14. KAGS Bryan

    Texas Supreme Court hears case challenging state's abortion restrictions (opens KAGS Bryan)

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    The hearing on Tuesday was in regard to the injunction set in place by Judge Mangrum that AG Ken Paxton appealed. There isn't expected to be a ruling for months.

  15. Fox7 Austin

    Texas Supreme Court hears arguments about abortion ban exemptions (opens Fox7 Austin)

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    The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by women who said their lives were put in danger because of the state’s multiple abortion bans.

  16. Courthouse News Service

    Medical exceptions for abortions in Texas probed by state’s highest court (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    “While there is technically a medical exemption to the bans, no one knows what it means and the state will not tell us,” attorney Molly Duane told the Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday.

  17. KVIA El Paso

    Texas Supreme Court considers abortion challenge (opens KVIA El Paso)

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    The Supreme Court of Texas heard arguments Tuesday in a landmark case that could impact how the state’s abortion laws apply to medically complicated pregnancies. In August, state District Judge Jessica Mangrum ruled that the near-total abortion ban cannot be enforced in cases involving complicated p…

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