The Legal Battle: Emergency Abortion Blocked by Texas Supreme Court

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Dr. Damla Karsan, the OB/GYN who would carry out the abortion, was also a plaintiff in the case.

Immediately after Judge Gamble’s ruling, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to all hospitals where Dr. Karsan has admitting privileges. The letter warns the hospitals they could face liability for allowing Dr. Karsan to perform an abortion that he and the Court may ultimately deem “unlawful.”

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Emergency Abortion

 Paxton is now arguing that fertility risks and fatal fetal abnormalities do not qualify as life-threatening conditions. And to get an abortion in Texas now it doesn’t matter if the baby will die shortly after birth.

He is working to make it almost impossible under Texas law for an emergency abortion.