Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Woman's Emergency Abortion, Sparking Controversy

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that granted a woman's request for an emergency abortion. The woman, Kate Cox, had filed a lawsuit against the state over its restrictive abortion bans, seeking a temporary restraining order. The Supreme Court will now weigh in on the matter and has put the lower court's decision on hold until it has more time to consider the case. Cox is currently carrying a pregnancy with a severe anomaly and has been denied the safest form of abortion care. The ruling comes in the first publicized case of a woman suing for an emergency abortion since Roe v. Wade in 1973.