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(LifeSiteNews) — The office of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton on Friday immediately moved to block a leftist judge’s order carving out a temporary exemption to the state’s tough abortion ban in the case of a “complicated pregnancy.”
Austin State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum on Friday issued an injunction providing a temporary exemption for abortionists who decide, using their “good faith judgment,” to commit an abortion in a case of a “complicated pregnancy,” The Texas Tribune reported.
“Mangrum outlined those conditions as a pregnancy that presents a risk of infection; a fetal condition in which the fetus will not survive after birth; or when the pregnant person [sic] has a condition that requires regular, invasive treatment,” the outlet reported.
According to the Austin judge, in such situations physicians would be shielded from prosecution by the state attorney general.
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Within hours, Texas’ attorney general’s office appealed the order to the state Supreme Court.
Announcing the appeal, First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster said Mangrum’s order was “an activist
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