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November 29, 2023

Center for Reproductive Rights Argues Against Texas Abortion Ban Before State's Supreme Court
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The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in the lawsuit
challenging the state's near-total abortion ban. Patients have been
refused care despite serious complications and forced to carry nonviable
pregnancies to term, often at great personal risk. This is Molly Duane,
a senior attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which brought
the case on behalf of 22 patients and doctors.

Molly Duane: "The last two years are an aberration from a centurieslong
practice in Texas that allowed physicians broad discretion to provide
abortion when necessary to preserve their patients' lives. The abortion
bans as they exist today subject physicians like my clients to the most
extreme penalties imaginable: life in prison and loss of their medical
license. And while there is technically a medical exception to the bans,
no one knows what it means, and the state won't tell us."



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