Greg Abbott condemned as Texas woman's abortion blocked in court

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have faced backlash online from social media users after a Dallas-based woman's abortion was temporarily blocked in court.

Earlier this week, a Texas judge granted Kate Cox, a pregnant 31-year-old mother of two, permission to get an abortion as her fetus has a fatal genetic condition. The Texas Supreme Court then said on Friday in an order that it was temporarily staying the lower court's decision, halting Cox from legally getting the medical procedure in Texas. The stay remains in place until the court delivers a full decision in the case.

Texas enacted one of the strictest abortion bans in the United States, following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, leaving individual states to choose its own legal status on abortion. Texas' ban, which does not have exceptions for rape or incest, goes into effect after about six weeks of pregnancy, which is before most women even know they're pregnant. Cox's lawsuit is believed to be the first time since Roe was overturned that a woman has asked a court to approve an abortion.