AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas girl who sought court docket permission for an abortion in an unprecedented problem to probably the most restrictive bans within the U.S. has left the state to acquire the process, her attorneys mentioned Monday.

The announcement got here as Kate Cox, 31, was awaiting a ruling from the Texas Supreme Courtroom over whether or not she may legally get hold of an abortion below slim exceptions to the state’s ban. A decide gave Cox, a mom of two from the Dallas space, permission final week however that call was placed on maintain by the state’s all-Republican excessive court docket.

“Her well being is on the road. She’s been out and in of the emergency room and he or she couldn’t wait any longer,” mentioned Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Heart for Reproductive Rights, which was representing Cox.

The group didn’t disclose the place Cox went. On Monday, she was 20 weeks and 6 days pregnant.

Cox was believed to be the primary girl within the U.S. to ask a court docket for permission for an abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned final yr. Her lawsuit rapidly turned a high-profile check of bans in Texas and a dozen different GOP-controlled states, the place abortion is prohibited at practically all phases of being pregnant.

Days after Cox filed her lawsuit, a pregnant girl in Kentucky additionally requested a court docket to permit an abortion. There was no ruling but in that case.

PHOTOS: Texas girl who sought court docket permission for abortion leaves state for the process, attorneys say

Earlier Monday, two medical teams within the U.S. urged the Texas Supreme Courtroom to rule in favor of Cox. Her attorneys mentioned she had been to the emergency a minimum of 4 occasions since turning into pregnant once more in August.

“The pervasive ‘local weather of concern’ among the many Texas medical group is for certain to be made worse by this case and the State’s actions in opposing the abortion Ms. Cox wants,” learn the temporary, which was filed by the American Faculty of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medication.

Texas’ abortion ban makes slim exceptions when the lifetime of the mom is at risk however not for fetal anomalies.

Republican Texas Lawyer Normal Ken Paxton, who has defended the state’s strict anti-abortion legal guidelines for practically a decade, argued that Cox didn’t show that the being pregnant had put her life at risk.

“The Texas Legislature didn’t intend for courts to turn out to be revolving doorways of permission slips to acquire abortions,” Paxton’s workplace wrote in a submitting to the state Supreme Courtroom final week.

Docs informed Cox that her fetus has a situation referred to as trisomy 18, which has a really excessive chance of miscarriage or stillbirth, and low survival charges, in accordance with her lawsuit filed final week in Austin. Additionally they informed Cox that inducing labor or carrying the child to time period may jeopardize her capability to have one other baby.

Trisomy 18 happens in roughly 1 in 2,500 identified pregnancies, docs informed the court docket within the temporary filed Monday. There isn’t a dwell start in about 70% of pregnancies involving the analysis that proceed previous 12 weeks gestational age, in accordance with the temporary.