A Texas woman filed an emergency lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to let her terminate her non-viable pregnancy. The woman recently learned of a lethal fetal diagnosis and her doctors said continuing the pregnancy threatens her life, health and future fertility – but she’s been unable to get an abortion due to Texas’s multiple bans.
It’s the first time since the (now-overturned) Roe v Wade ruling in 1973 that an adult woman has asked a court to authorize an abortion.
