A woman who was denied an abortion in Texas for her unborn baby with a fetal anomaly has left the state to obtain an abortion elsewhere, her attorneys said Monday.
The Texas Supreme Court on Monday ruled against Kate Cox, 31, saying that a lower court was wrong to rule that she was entitled to a medical exception abortion.
By then, though, Cox had already left Texas.
“After a week of legal whiplash and threats of persecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kate Cox has been forced to leave Texas to get healthcare outside of the state,” the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox, said in a statement.
Cox’s legal team had argued that the baby has a fatal fetal condition and that continuing the pregnancy threatens Cox’s future fertility.
Cox, who has two other children, was more than 20 weeks pregnant with a baby who had a condition called trisomy 18, which…
