Texas Abortion Ban Emergency Exceptions Case
Amicus Briefs: Zurawski v. State of Texas
Thirteen amicus briefs were submitted to the Texas Supreme Court to support the Center’s case seeking clarity to Texas’s medical exceptions under its extreme abortion bans.
Summary
A broad range of experts filed amicus briefs (“friend of the court” briefs) to the Texas Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs in Zurawski v. State of Texas, the Center’s case on behalf of Texas physicians and women denied abortion care despite facing severe and dangerous pregnancy complications that threatened their health, lives, and future fertility. The briefs were ahead of the November 28 oral argument on the state’s appeal of an injunction issued by a lower state court in August that blocked Texas’s abortion bans as they apply to dangerous pregnancy complications and clarified that doctors can use their good-faith medical judgment to determine when to provide abortion care in those situations.
Law professors, historians, medical groups, plaintiffs’ families, abortion funds, disability rights groups, faith groups, athletes, state attorneys general, elected officials, businesses, and other groups submitted amicus briefs in support of the 22 plaintiffs.
Below are the briefs that have been filed in support of the Center’s case.
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