Pregnant Woman Leaves Texas to Obtain Abortion as Court Considers Emergency Request

A Texas woman who requested permission to obtain an emergency abortion left her home state to seek the procedure elsewhere as the state supreme court considers her case.

Center for Reproductive Rights president and CEO Nancy Northup announced Monday that Kate Cox, a 31-year-old woman who is 20 weeks pregnant, fled Texas to “get the time-sensitive abortion care needed to protect her health and future fertility.” Her departure comes after the Texas supreme court on Friday evening paused her previously granted request to receive an emergency abortion that her doctors and lawyer argued would save her life.