The Texas Supreme Court unanimously rejected a challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban on Friday, ruling against 20 women, including some from North Texas, who allege state laws prevented them from receiving medical care after experiencing severe complications with their pregnancies. The lead plaintiff in the case, Zurawski v. Texas, was Amanda Zurawski who, while pregnant, “was forced to wait until she was septic to receive abortion care, causing one of her fallopian tubes to become permanently closed,” according to a complaint filed over a year ago…

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