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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

‘Feels like a gut punch’: Texas rejects challenge from women denied life-saving emergency abortions

AP

The highest court in Texas has rejected a historic challenge to the state’s anti-abortion laws from a group of 22 women – some of whom nearly died during pregnancy – demanding urgent clarity on whether emergency medical exceptions to abortion bans include life-threatening pregnancies.

On Friday, a unanimous Texas Supreme Court decided that the state law was broad enough.

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