All nine Republican justices of the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the state's strict abortion ban on Friday that was brought by a group of women who said their lives were put at risk when they suffered serious pregnancy complications and could not access the necessary medical care.
The lawsuit, brought on by five women in March 2023, was the first legal challenge to the state’s ban to focus on women with complicated pregnancies, NBC News reported. The plaintiffs said that they were denied abortions even though the issues that arose during their pregnancies endangered their lives. They claimed this happened because the state's abortion law isn’t sufficiently clear when exceptions are allowed; the Texas court maintained that exceptions to the law as written might be broad but are definitely not unclear.
