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Doctors and patients sued the State of Texas in an attempt to force the Texas courts to provide more guidance on when abortions were permitted, i.e. provide guidance on when the medical conditions existed that met the law.

The courts refused to provide such direction/guidelines.

Texas AG followed up with a letter to hospitals threatening 99-year prison sentences for performing abortions.

So, no, this is NOT a matter of medical malpractice. This is the intended goal of the Texas abortion laws.

These are what are known as facts.

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Today the Texas Supreme Court denied claims brought by 20 women denied abortion care despite facing dangerous pregnancy complications and refused to clarify exceptions to the state's abortion bans.

Court's Ruling Ignores Pregnant Patients Filing the Case

In its ruling, the Court largely ignores the women denied abortion care who filed the case. The ruling states that abortions are not permitted in situations where the fetus has a lethal condition and will not survive, unless the pregnant patient also has a life-threatening condition. The Court also dismissed claims that the Texas law violates patients' constitutional rights to protect their lives and health.

While the Court clarified that exceptions can be made for life-threatening conditions such as PPROM, the Court refused to say when, in the course of a patient's deteriorating health situation, the exception would apply.

The Court also threw out an injunction issued by a Texas district judge in August 2023 that blocked the state's abortion bans and would have allowed abortions for severe pregnancy complications and fatal fetal diagnoses. The state had immediately appealed the judge's ruling, blocking it from taking effect mere hours after the opinion was issued.

"This ruling utterly fails to provide the clarity Texas doctors need for when they can provide abortion care to patients with serious pregnancy complications without risking being sent to prison. To add insult to injury, the opinion erases the women we represent as though their pain and experiences didn't exist or matter," said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center.

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Texas Threatens Doctors Over Court-Granted Abortion

Texas' attorney general has threatened to imprison any doctor who performs an abortion granted by one of the state's courts to remove an unviable fetus that could make the mother infertile if carried to term.

On Thursday, a judge in Travis County granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the implementation of Texas's abortion laws, after medical professionals discovered Kate Cox's 20-week pregnancy had a condition that caused deformities"giving it a minimal chance of survival and potentially threatening her reproductive health.

But later the same day, Ken Paxton released a statement in which he said the order "will not insulate hospitals, doctors, or anyone else, from civil and criminal liability for violating Texas' abortion laws," including first degree felony prosecutions and civil penalties in excess of $100,000.

So, even a court order allowing an abortion would not protect a doctor

You were told this would happen, it is happening and you blame the doctors.