Texas court hears challenge to state’s strict abortion ban by women who say they were harmed

The Texas Supreme Court, the state’s highest court, has heard a case challenging the state’s restrictive abortion law by women who say it endangered their health when they had pregnancy complications.The case, Zurawski v State of Texas, is the first case in which women have sued, claiming they were harmed by the state’s ban on abortion.1 Texas passed SB 8 in September 2021, prohibiting abortion once fetal cardiac activity was detected, effectively banning abortion after six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant.2 In 2022 the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which had found a constitutional right to abortion, and returned the matter to the states.3The Texas Supreme Court has nine judges, all Republicans, who are usually anti-abortion and pro-life.The case was brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of 20 Texas women and two Texas board certified obstetrician gynaecologists on 6 March and heard…
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