Good evening in a landmark ruling the Supreme Court today legalized abortions.

The case of Jane Rowe, a pregnant woman in Texas who sued for access to abortion, enshrined abortion

rights for decades.

Now nearly 50 years later and two years after that historic decision was overturned,

another Texas woman has filed another lawsuit suing for the right to abortion. The 459th District Court is now in session.

The Honorable Judge

Your proposed temporary restraining order.

Kate Cox was carrying a fetus with a severe genetic disorder that usually results in death.

Continuing the pregnancy to term could have endangered her future fertility.

Well, your honor, I, we were working on a very challenging timeline here and that the care that Ms. Cox needs is quite urgent.

The question at the center of this case is, how severe do complications in a pregnancy have to be before a person is allowed

an abortion.

When she was around 20 weeks pregnant, Cox began experiencing severe symptoms that sent her to the emergency room multiple times in a two-week period.

I think the one thing that people really need to remember is that pregnancy itself is not a health neutral situation.

Dr. Andrea Palmer is an OBGYN in Fort Worth, Texas. She is not involved with Cox's case, but spoke to NPR about the greater issues

pregnant people face.

Asking a woman to carry a fetus to term that is not going to live to survive, much after

the C-section she's going to be

required to have to deliver it is just putting her at risk for every pregnancy

thereafter. Texas is home to three overlapping abortion bans.

There is an exception that allows abortion when the mother's life is threatened,

or when a pregnancy quote poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.

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