for her right to terminate a pregnancy which, if forced to proceed, and cause damage to Cox’s future fertility. At the time she was 20 weeks pregnant, well past the six-week window in which women are legally allowed to seek an abortion in the state.Texas’s near-total abortion ban under , which went into effect in September 2021, theoretically allows for exceptions in cases where the health of the pregnant person or the fetus is at stake. However, after a week of “legal whiplash” while the courts argued over how to interpret this part of the law, on December 11 Cox’s lawyer announced that she decided to leave her home state in order to find adequate abortion care elsewhere.In a , Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox, said: “This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate.