Kate Cox, a woman from Texas who fought her state because it wouldn’t let her have an abortion, said she was pregnant during the DNC’s delegate roll call.
Cox had to leave the state in December 2023 to get an abortion because her unborn child had Trisomy 18 or Edwards Syndrome, which means it had very few chances of living. In Texas, women can’t have abortions unless their life or major body function is in danger. At the time, the Texas Supreme Court said that her lawyers had not shown that she was eligible for the narrow exception.
Doctors told Cox and her husband that their unborn child would never live when she got pregnant. They also said that if she didn’t have an abortion, it could risk another pregnancy. “But Trump didn’t care, and I had to leave my home because he banned abortions.”
“Today because I found a way to get an abortion.” “I’m pregnant again,” she said. “And my baby is due in January, just in time to witness Kamala Harris become president of the United States.”
Dr. Selena Simons-Duffin of NPR says that doctors in Texas say they don’t know how to read the state’s limited exception. They could face fines, lose their medical license, or prison if they make the wrong decision.
Cox and her lawyers said in court that if she brought the pregnancy to term, it would hurt her ability to have children in the future.
There is a chance that her uterus will burst if she has to be induced, Cox’s lawyer Molly Duane told NPR. “If she has to have a repeat C-section, there is a risk of, again, uterine rupture and hysterectomy and she won’t be able to try again for more children in the future, which she desperately wants to do.”