Abortion Litigation: Texas Trial Judge Enjoins Enforcement of SB 8 Under Limited Circumstances

In a nutshell: "A Texas judge ruled Friday [Aug. 4] the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges" (Associated Press). 

First, the opinion. It's not long and is worth reading.

Or, go straight to the BBC's excellent coverage of yesterday's ruling. Or the Texas Tribune:

State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum of Austin wrote that the attorney general cannot prosecute doctors who, in their “good faith judgment,” terminate a complicated pregnancy. Mangrum outlined those conditions as a pregnancy that presents a risk of infection; a fetal condition in which the fetus will not survive after birth; or when the pregnant person has a condition that requires regular, invasive treatment.

Predictably, the state took a same-day appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, which had the effect of immediately staying Judge Mangrum's order. 

For part of one day, women in Texas had their right to potentially life-saving treatment restored. Texas, though, continues to follow its preferred policy of death, disability, and denial of reproductive autonomy.