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A woman who sued Texas for access to abortion seeks a procedure out of state instead

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, is ill and carrying a fetus with a genetic condition that is almost always fatal. She decided to leave Texas to get an abortion.

WEKU

Texas Woman Forced To Leave State For Emergency Abortion

A Texas woman has been forced to leave the state for an emergency abortion after being prevented from terminating her potentially life-threatening pregnancy, a court filing by her lawyers said Monday.

International Business Times

Abortion 'Sanctuary Cities' Under Scrutiny in New Mexico Supreme Court

Abortion issues come before two other state Supreme Courts—in Arizona and Wyoming—this week as well.

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Texas Supreme Court blocks order allowing abortion; woman who sought it leaves state

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Kate Cox did not qualify for an abortion under the medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Just hours prior, Cox’s lawyers said she’d traveled out of state to have the procedure.

The Texas Tribune

Woman who sued Texas for abortion left state to have procedure after ‘hellish’ week

Center for the Reproductive Rights, which is representing Kate Cox, says she left after being ‘in and out of the emergency room’

The Guardian - US

Texas woman seeks emergency abortion out of state after Supreme Court block

‘This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate,’ the Center for Reproductive Rights said about the Dallas woman seeking the procedure

The Independent UK

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

Attorneys for a pregnant Texas woman who sought court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. say she has left the state to obtain the procedure

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2023 had the most state ballot measures for an odd-numbered year since 2007

In 2023, voters in eight states decided on 41 statewide ballot measures—the highest number of state ballot measures for an odd-numbered year since 2007. Voters approved 33 (80.49%) and rejected eight (19.51%). The average number of statewide measures on the ballot in odd-numbered years from 2011 to 2021 was 33.

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Republican senator says Ukraine may have to cede land to Russia to end war

JD Vance, one of GOP lawmakers who voted to block Ukraine aid package, asks ‘what $61bn would accomplish that $100bn hasn’t’

The Guardian - US

At least 16 abortion-related measures could appear on the ballot in 2024

Welcome to the Monday, December 11, 2023, Brew.

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Supreme Courts in 3 states will hear cases about abortion access this week

Supreme court justices in Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming will hear arguments in cases that will impact abortion access across the Mountain West. Here's what to know.

WEKU

‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

Last year, a liberal constitution to replace the Pinochet-era one was rejected. Now a referendum will be held on a new draft that curbs abortion rights and enshrines Catholic morality. Here, five women reflect on 2019’s protests and the struggle for equality

The Guardian - UK

Being Black and pregnant in the South

Infant mortality rates in rural counties, especially for Black babies, are poised to get worse

Salon

A pregnant Texas woman asked a court for permission to get an abortion, despite a ban. What's next?

The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis

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Texas court blocks emergency abortion

Shortly after Kate Cox won an order allowing her to legally obtain the procedure, the state intervened

The Guardian - US

Texas supreme court temporarily blocks woman from abortion for non-viable pregnancy

Dallas woman was earlier allowed abortion by judge, even as state attorney general threatened to sue doctors who perform procedure

The Independent UK

Abortion delays have grown more common in the US since Roe v. Wade was overturned

Obstacles to obtaining an abortion are more common since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022

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Texas Supreme Court pauses ruling that allowed pregnant woman to have an abortion

The court put on hold a ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo a challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S.

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The Independent UK

Texas Supreme Court pauses lower court's order allowing pregnant woman to have an abortion

The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis

The Independent UK

Texas attorney general temporarily blocks court-approved abortion

Kate Cox’s baby was diagnosed with full trisomy 18 and her baby may not survive until birth

The Texas Tribune

Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to get an abortion

After a Travis County district judge cleared the way for Kate Cox, 31, to terminate her pregnancy, Ken Paxton petitioned the state’s highest court to halt the ruling.

The Guardian - US

Texas attorney general says he will sue doctor who gives abortion to Kate Cox

Ken Paxton issues threat after judge ruled this week that Cox, a pregnant woman with a lethal fetal diagnosis, can get an abortion

The Independent UK

Missouri lawmakers propose allowing homicide charges for women who have abortions

Some Republican Missouri lawmakers are renewing their call to allow homicide charges against women who have abortions

The Independent UK

Pregnant woman in Kentucky sues for the right to get an abortion

A pregnant woman in Kentucky has filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion, the second legal challenge in days to sweeping abortion bans that have taken hold in more than a dozen U.S. states since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year

Salon

Paxton threatens to charge abortion docs

"Fearmongering has been Ken Paxton's main tactic in enforcing these abortion bans," lawyer says

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