(Life News) After the Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling and is protecting a disabled baby with Trisomy 18 from abortion, the mother of the baby is now heading to another state to have the baby killed.
The case has 31-year-old Kate Cox suing the state’s abortion ban to allow her a medically unnecessary abortion just because she doesn’t want to give birth to a child with disabilities or who could die soon after birth. As LifeNews reported last week, a Texas judge has ruled a baby can be killed in an abortion just because the baby is disabled. Cox is suing Texas, saying she is seeking an emergency exception in the state’s law protecting babies from abortions for a pregnancy that is destined to end in the death of the baby.
Cox’s baby is approximately 21 weeks old now.
A judge ruled Cox can legally get an abortion despite the fact that Texas law only allows abortions to save the life of the mother. Cox lawsuit claims that not having an abortion could make it so she can’t get pregnant again, even though the abortion could cause the same problem. The Texas Supreme Court temporarily stayed a lower court’s ruling, preventing her abortion until the higher court reaches a decision. Now Cox is leaving the state to… to continue reading click here
This article was written by Steven Ertelt and published at Life News. Title changed by Protestia