On December 11, while the Coxes were away, the Texas Supreme Court overturned the lower court’s ruling.
Duane said the court decided that “essentially, Kate wasn’t sick enough. And I think what that makes clear to me, and the fact that the attorney general fought it as hard as he did, is that the exception in Texas doesn’t exist at all.”
Smith asked Kate what she though when she heard their ruling.
“It was crushing,” said Kate. “I was shocked that the state of Texas wanted me to continue a pregnancy where I would have to wait until a baby dies in my belly, or dies at birth, or lives for days, and put my own health at risk, and a future pregnancy at risk.”
From Abortion Every Day about an absurd *christian* viewpoint that women whose lives are in danger and need an abortion should have to labor for 24 hours first.
In the Christian Post this week, an anti-abortion activist doctor from the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) blamed doctors, the weather, and even Yeni herself.
If AAPLOG sounds familiar, it’s because I’ve been writing about these absolute maniacs for a while now: they’re the group that released a glossary of false ‘medical’ terms that they want doctors to use—like calling non-viable pregnancies ‘life limiting’ and calling life-saving abortions ‘maternal fetal separations.’
The ‘pro-life’ group also suggested that when women’s lives are in danger from a massive placental abruption, they should be made to labor for up to 24 hours—even if they need blood transfusions or the ICU—instead of being given an abortion. Why? In order to deliver “an intact fetal body.”
So excuse me if I don’t take their medical advice very seriously. In any case, AAPLOG’s Dr. Christina Francis claims the issue is that Yeni’s local hospital didn’t have adequate “resources,” that Yeni was overweight, and that the weather prevented a helicopter from transferring Yeni to a bigger hospital.
They will do anything to avoid telling the truth: that Texas’ abortion ban—and the ideology that passed it—killed Yeni. (Read more about the anti-abortion ecosystem, including religious hospitals, here.)
