The lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to clarify what qualifies as a medical exception to the law rather than overturn Texas' abortion bans. "I will never forget when one specialist tore off his mask ...

In the first lawsuit of its kind ... the state’s near-total ban on abortion last summer. Marcus Silva is represented by Jonathan Mitchell, the former Texas solicitor general and architect ...

Texas’ intersecting abortion laws allow doctors to terminate pregnancies only to save the life of the pregnant patient, but the lawsuit argues that those statutes are vague and conflicting ...

Five women allege in the lawsuit that uncertainty around when medical emergency exemptions in Texas' abortion laws apply exacerbated medical emergencies that put their lives, health and fertility ...

According to the lawsuit, both say Texas’ abortion bans have led to a chilling effect on physicians and other medical professionals providing obstetric care, and “have made it impossible for ...

Two of the women who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit are from North Texas. Similar legal challenges to abortion restrictions have arisen in states across the country since the Supreme Court ...

The women said they were denied abortions due to the state's strict laws. Five women are suing the state of Texas over its strict abortion laws, saying they were denied the procedure even though ...

Texas was sued by a group of women with high-risk pregnancies who claim the state’s sweeping abortion ban denies them ...

(CNN)In one of the first major legal tests of laws cracking down on abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a Texas man filed a lawsuit against three women claiming they illegally assisted his ...