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	Texas Supreme Court blocks order allowing abortion; woman who sought it leaves state

Texas Supreme Court blocks order allowing abortion; woman who sought it leaves state

By Eleanor KlibanoffThe Texas TribuneThe Texas Supreme Court has overturned a court order that would have allowed a Dallas woman to get an abortion. The ruling came down hours after Kate Cox’s lawyers announced she was leaving the state to terminate her non-viable pregnancy.Last Tuesday, Cox, 31, filed a historic lawsuit, asking the courts to allow her to terminate her pregnancy after she learned her fetus had full trisomy 18, a lethal fetal anomaly. The lawsuit, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, said continuing the pregnancy posed a threat to Cox’s health and future fertility, but her doctors refused ...

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