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Media Highlights: Texas Supreme Court Ruling, 05.31.24

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in this case on May 31, refusing to clarify the exceptions to the state’s abortion bans. The court rejected claims brought by 20 women who were denied abortions despite dire pregnancy complications.

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Media Highlights: Texas Supreme Court Oral Arguments, 11.28.23

The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments November 28 on Texas’s appeal of an injunction issued in August, which blocked the state’s abortion bans as they apply to patients with dangerous pregnancy complications. The appeal blocked the injunction from taking effect, leaving the state’s abortion bans in place.

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Media Highlights: Amended Complaint, 11.14.23

Seven additional women joined the case November 14, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to 22. The move comes as the Texas Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the case on November 28.

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Media Highlights: Ruling, 08.04.23

A Texas District Court ruling August 4 clarified the medical exception in Texas’s abortion bans and found S.B. 8, a vigilante bounty-hunting abortion ban, unconstitutional. However, the state of Texas immediately appealed the ruling to the Texas Supreme Court, putting the injunction on hold while appeals proceed.

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Media Highlights: Hearing, 07.19.23 – 07.20.23

A two-day hearing in the case was held in a Texas state court in Austin July 19–20. At the hearing, plaintiffs gave riveting testimony on their experiences being denied abortion care despite facing severe pregnancy complications that risked their health, fertility and lives.

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Media Highlights: Case Filing, 03.06.23

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• “Texas women file lawsuit against state’s abortion bans,” CBS News, 03.07.23
• “Women impacted by abortion laws file case against Texas,” FOX 7 Austin, 03.07.23
• “5 women suing Texas in attempt to clarify state’s abortion law when it comes to necessary medical procedures,” KHOU, 03.07.23
• “Center for Reproductive Rights files lawsuit against Texas abortion laws,” KXXV, 03.07.23
• “How a Texas lawsuit could impact state’s near-total abortion ban,” NBC News, 03.07.23
• “5 women sue Texas over lethal abortion ban,” ABC News, 03.08.23
• “Patient, doctor suing state of Texas say they were forced to travel elsewhere to get abortions,” ABC News, 05.22.23
• “8 women join suit against Texas over abortion bans, claim their lives were put in danger,” Good Morning America, ABC News, 05.22.23
• “More Texas women join lawsuit seeking clarification on abortion ban,” CBS Austin, 05.22.23
• “Citing ‘trauma, criminal treatment’ 8 women join suit against Texas abortion laws,” CBS News, 05.22.23
• “Women asking court to put block on state’s abortion law,” FOX 4, 05.22.23
• “More women sue Texas saying the state’s anti-abortion laws harmed them,” NPR, 05.22.23
• “Texas abortion plaintiffs speak out about health dangers they say they experienced,” Nightline, ABC News, 05.23.23
• “‘Neighbors can come after neighbors’: Attorney warns of vigilante abortion laws in the South,” Meet the Press, NBC News, 05.23.23
• “Travis County court hears case seeking clarity in medical exception to Texas abortion law,”KUT, 07.19.23

• “Five Women Sue Texas Over the State’s Abortion Ban,” New York Times, 03.06.23
• “5 women sue Texas over abortion bans, saying their lives were put at risk,” ABC News Online, 03.07.23
• “Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives,” AP News, 03.07.23
• “Texas abortion lawsuit puts medical exceptions under spotlight,” Axios, 03.07.23
• “Five women sue Texas over abortion access,” BBC, 03.07.23
• “Texas Is Being Sued By Five Women Who Say They Couldn’t Get An Abortion Though Their Lives Were At Risk,” BuzzFeed News, 03.07.23
• “Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives,” CBS Texas Online, 03.07.23
• “Texas sued by women who say state’s abortion bans put their health at risk,” CNN Online, 03.07.23
• “Texas women with risky pregnancies sue over how state’s abortion ban forced them to flee,” Dallas Morning News, 03.07.23
• “Five women denied abortion care in Texas sue state over bans,” The Guardian, 03.07.23
• “Women sue Texas over abortion ban: Law endangers ‘lives of my future babies,’” The Hill, 03.07.23
• “5 Women Denied Lifesaving Abortions Sue Texas Over Its 6-Week Ban,” HuffPost, 03.07.23
• “Women Who Almost Died From Texas’ Abortion Ban Sue State in Landmark Lawsuit,” Jezebel, 03.07.23
• “In Texas, Women Denied Abortions File Landmark Lawsuit,” Ms., 03.07.23
• “Women and doctors sue Texas over ‘extreme abortion bans,’ say lives were endangered,” New York Daily News, 03.07.23
• “‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Describe Losing Pregnancies, Nearly Dying Because of Texas Laws,” Rolling Stone, 03.07.23
• “The Five Horrifying Near-Death Experiences Behind the New Texas Abortion Lawsuit,” Slate, 03.07.23
• “Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court,” Slate, 03.07.23
• “Women denied abortions sue Texas to clarify exceptions to the laws,” Texas Tribune, 03.07.23
• “5 women denied abortions sue Texas in landmark post-Roe case,” Washington Post, 03.07.23
• “‘I Begged My Doctors’: Five Women Were Denied Abortions. Now, They’re Suing.” Vice News, 03.07.23
• “Texas denied abortions to these women when their lives were in danger. Now they’re suing the state.” The 19th, 03.07.23
• “Five women sue Texas, say the state’s abortion ban put their lives and fetuses at risk,” Austin American-Statesman, 03.08.23
• “These women say the Texas abortion ban put their lives at risk. Now they’re suing,” CBC, 03.08.23
• “‘Sick and Twisted’: Women Sue Texas Over Harrowing Medical Episodes Caused by Abortion Bans,” The Intercept, 03.08.23
• “Five women who say they were denied abortions sue Texas,” Reuters, 03.08.23
• “5 women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it put their lives at risk,” USA Today, 03.08.23
• “Under the Texas abortion ban, a woman went into sepsis before doctors would treat her and nearly died, lawsuit says,” Insider, 03.10.23
• “No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas,” Vox, 03.12.23
• “The Diagnosis Was Fatal. She Couldn’t Get an Abortion,” Slate, 03.30.23
• “Congress holds the abortion hearing we have been waiting for,” Washington Post, 04.28.23
• “In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—By Design,” New Yorker, 05.06.23
• “Amanda Zurawski and Molly Duane: Suing Texas Because Abortion Saves Lives,” Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry, 05.07.23
• “Time Is Running Out for Texas Republicans to Clarify Exceptions in Their New Abortion Law,” The Nation, 05.16.23
• “More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law,” AP News, 05.22.23
• “8 More Women Join Lawsuit Against Texas Abortion Ban, Sharing Horrific Stories,” Jezebel, 05.22.23
• “Over a Dozen Women Suing Texas Over Abortion,” The Messenger, 05.22.23
• “8 More Women Join Lawsuit Against Texas Abortion Ban, Saying It Almost Killed Them,” New Republic, 05.22.23
• “You Cannot Hear These 13 Women’s Stories and Believe the Anti-Abortion Narrative,” New York Times, 05.22.23
• “Texas Forced This Woman to Give Birth to a Stillborn Son. She’s Suing,” Rolling Stone, 05.22.23
• “Why a growing number of women are suing Texas over the state’s abortion laws,” Yahoo! News, 05.22.23
• “More women join lawsuit against Texas in post-Roe case,” Washington Post, 05.23.23
• “The Legislature Ignores Suffering Pregnant Texans,” Texas Observer, 06.02.23
• “The Texas Abortion Ban That Threatened Their Wives’ Lives,” Men’s Health, 06.23.23
• “Seven North Texas Women Are at the Center of the First Major Challenge To Texas’ Abortion Laws,” D, 07.18.23
• “Women denied abortions in Texas ask court for clarity over state’s exceptions to ban,” AP News, 07.19.23
• “Texas judge to hear lawsuit challenging state’s abortion ban,” Yahoo! News, 07.19.23