Kate Cox’s case reveals how far Texas intends to go to enforce abortion laws
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A year and a half after enacting one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, Texas finally saw a test case.
In a historic lawsuit, Kate Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas mother of two, put herself and her heartbreaking pregnancy story into the public eye to force an answer to an urgent question: Just how serious is the state of Texas about enforcing its new abortion laws?
Pretty damn serious, it turns out.