Texas top court weighs scope of abortion ban exception for risky pregnancies

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Texas passed the law in 2021, when abortion was still legal nationwide under the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade.
47% : Earlier this year, Texas amended the law to state that premature rupture of membranes, along with ectopic pregnancy implanted outside the uterus, qualified for the exception.
44% : Some said they had been forced to travel out of state to terminate a pregnancy.
43% : Molly Duane, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights, told the Texas Supreme Court in Austin that the exception in the state's near-total abortion ban for saving the mother's life was so unclear it left doctors too "terrified" to deliver needed care because they face the prospect of life in prison if they break the law.
31% : Meanwhile, Justice Debra Lehrmann asked Klusmann whether she acknowledged that the law "puts medical professionals in a really bad situation.

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