Abortion was banned with very limited exceptions in Texas.
Women in Texas with complicated pregnancies are exempted from a state abortion ban under a temporary injunction issued on Friday, with the judge citing a lack of clarity on the ban’s medical exemptions.
Travis County District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum in her ruling sided with women and doctors who sued Texas over the abortion ban.
« The court finds that there is uncertainty regarding whether the medical exception to Texas’ abortion bans … permits a physician to provide abortion care where, in the physician’s good faith judgment and in consultation with the pregnant person, a pregnant person has a physical emergent medical condition, » Mangrum said in the ruling.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office said Saturday it had filed a notice of an accelerated appeal directly to the Texas Supreme Court.
