The Texas Supreme Court on Monday issued its ruling on the case of Kate Cox. The high court tossed the decision back to doctors, saying it would be an overreach for the court to rule on one specific case.
The ruling stated that doctors must use their “reasonable medical judgment” to decide if a patient qualifies for an abortion. It called for the state’s medical board to issue more guidance.
The ruling came hours after Cox’s lawyers announced she would leave the state for an abortion. Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas resident and a mother of two learned that her baby was diagnosed with a fatal disorder. She and her husband have decided to abort the baby. Texas has a near-total ban on abortion except in cases to save the life of the mother or to prevent “substantial impairment of a major bodily function.”
“A woman who meets the medical-necessity exception need not seek a…
