In the nineteenth century, when a character had premarital sex, you held your breath not for an abortion but for a wedding. Think of “Pride and Prejudice,” where Lydia’s child marriage comes as a great relief. The marriage plot relegates the actual having of children to the last page, just after the rice is thrown … Read more
Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to have abortion Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts ruling allowing Dallas woman to have abortion 00:40 The Texas Supreme Court late Friday temporarily stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed a woman whose fetus has been diagnosed with what doctors say is a fatal … Read more
A Texas judge on Thursday granted the request of a pregnant woman—who was diagnosed with a nonviable pregnancy that has sent her to the emergency room four times—to undergo an abortion. The ruling came in spite of Texas’s near-total ban on the medical procedure, and while obviously welcome news for the woman in question, underscores … Read more
