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Zurawski v. State of Texas is a case heard by the Texas Supreme Court regarding medical exceptions to the state's abortion ban. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on March 6, 2023. On August 4, 2023, State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum granted the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction; the state of Texas appealed ...
A plaintiff vomited during her testimony in a lawsuit against the state of Texas over its abortion ban. Samantha Casiano is one of 13 women and two OB-GYNs suing Texas and asking a judge to define ...
Ordinarily, the treatment would be to induce the fetus, which would probably be still-born or die soon after birth. But the UK doctors told her that under Kentucky’s draconian new abortion laws ...
The penal code makes performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison and a fine between $100 and $1,000. Another Texas law, Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act ...
[54] [55] 1.3% of abortions occur after 21 weeks of pregnancy in the US. Although it is very uncommon, women undergoing surgical abortion after this gestational age sometimes give birth to a fetus that may survive briefly. [56] [57] [58] The periviable period is considered to be between 20 and 25 weeks gestation. [59]
Frequency. 1 in 4600 in the U.S. Anencephaly is the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp that occurs during embryonic development. [ 1] It is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the rostral (head) end of the neural tube fails to close, usually between the 23rd and 26th day following ...
Dr. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN in Dallas, never talked about her own abortion with her doctors after they discovered anencephaly on the baby's ultrasound during her third pregnancy last year.
A medical abortion, also known as medication abortion or non-surgical abortion, occurs when drugs ( medication) are used to bring about an abortion. Medical abortions are an alternative to surgical abortions such as vacuum aspiration or dilation and curettage. [ 6] Medical abortions are more common than surgical abortions in most places around ...