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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity. Paxton said in a letter that the order by District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble in Austin did not shield doctors from prosecution under all of Texas’s abortion laws, and that the woman, Kate Cox, had not shown she qualified for the medical exception to the state’s abortion ban.

Paxton said in a statement accompanying the letter that Guerra Gamble’s order “will not insulate hospitals, doctors, or anyone else, from civil and criminal liability for violating Texas’ abortion laws.”

See also: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4349124-texas-ag-says-court-exemption-abortion-still-prosecutable/

More on Kate Cox: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/12/07/who-is-kate-cox-texas-woman-allowed-to-abort-fetus-with-lethal-abnormality/

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    They don’t see a reason to keep the illusion going anymore. Pretending to actually care got them this far, and now they’ve decided that they won. So, they don’t have to keep pretending. In fact, from their point of view continuing the charade makes them seem weak.