Pay Attention to What’s Happening in Texas

My immediate reaction was to delete the email. I don’t want to read about this, even when it’s a victory. Or I should say, was a victory, a short-lived one at that. In case you haven’t been paying attention, Kate Cox, a Texas resident, recently got a fatal diagnosis for her fetus at 21 weeks pregnant. Cox, whose fetus was diagnosed with trisomy 18, a chromosomal abnormality that results in miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death within the first year, attempted to get an exemption from the Texas abortion ban. She first was entitled to a medical exemption, but the Texas Supreme Court later <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/us/texas-abortion-kate-cox.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">overturned</a> that ruling. <a href="https://medium.com/bitchy/pay-attention-to-whats-happening-in-texas-94384d400b34">Website</a>