The Texas Supreme Court on Friday night put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S.
The order by the all-Republican court came more than 30 hours after Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from the Dallas area, received a temporary restraining order from a lower court judge that prevents Texas from enforcing the state’s ban in her case.
In a one-page order, the court said it was temporarily staying Thursday’s ruling “without regard to the merits.” The case is still pending.
My point was of the few somewhat philosophically valid arguments in opposition to abortion none exist in this case. If arguing in good faith one might sincerely believe that people have been convinced to kill innocent babies every time an abortion occurs and they want to stop such obvious cruelty. But this child is already dead essentially, by a fluke of nature this child was not meant to live. The true cruelty in this case would be to sentence this woman carry a lump of dead tissue and dark memories to term for the crime of having a healthy reproductive system