Texas Seeks to Force Woman to Maintain Life-Threatening Pregnancy

After a Texas court permitted a woman with a life-threatening terminal pregnancy to get an abortion, the state’s attorney general threatened to prosecute anyone who performed or facilitated the procedure—shortly before the state’s supreme court froze the lower court’s decision.

In a despicable series of events which further proves that the Republican Party is better described as pro-forced-birth than pro-life, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton inflicted great cruelty on Kate Cox, a Texas resident who is 20-weeks pregnant with a nonviable fetus. 

Cox, a married mother of two, seemed fully committed to bringing her third child to term—before her physician diagnosed the fetus with trisomy 18, a fatal genetic condition which affords the subject a few days outside the womb. 

Her doctor also warned her that the illness will also jeopardize Cox’s own life and future fertility the longer it remains in utero. In response, Cox sought an emergency hearing to get a medical exception under Texas’s strict six-week abortion ban. 

Though the judge ruled in her favor, granting a 14-day restraining order against the ban, Paxton issued a threat of prosecution and asked for an emergency stay of the district judge’s ruling.

This, in turn, prompted the Texas Supreme Court to intercede, declaring: “Without regard to the merits, the Court administratively stays the district court’s December 7, 2023 order.” 

Cox’s attorneys issued a statement in the aftermath of the high court’s ruling: “The State claims that it alone has the power to value Ms. Cox’s current nonviable pregnancy more highly than Ms. Cox’s own life and life of the future children she and her husband hope to have, regardless of Ms. Cox’s wishes for her family and the good faith advice of her medical team.”

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