A federal complaint filed this week by Austin-area patient Lynn Callaway alleges that two Texas hospitals refused to provide timely miscarriage care despite federal obligations requiring emergency treatment, leaving her to endure days of escalating pain, infection, and fear that she might die. Callaway’s case has become a new focal point in the legal and…
New York Attorney General Letitia James has announced that her office is intervening in a lawsuit to defend the state’s abortion shield law after the Texas Attorney General’s Office sought to enforce its abortion ban through New York courts. At issue is a $113,000 judgment entered in Texas against a New York-based physician who provided…
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a lower court ruling that bars emergency abortions in violation of Texas’ strict abortion ban to stand. The decision leaves hospitals uncertain about when they can legally provide pregnancy terminations in life-threatening situations. On Monday, the justices declined to hear a request from the Biden administration to block the…