Texas interim Attorney General, John Scott, filed an appeal to the temporary injunction against the state’s abortion ban on Saturday.
State District Judge Jessica Mangrum ruled in favor of the women who sued the state over the lack of medical exemptions in the state’s ban, issuing a temporary injunction on Friday to prevent the law from being enforced in emergency situations where doctors must perform an abortion to save life of the mother.
“While a district judge’s ruling attempted to block the state’s enforcement of Texas pro-life laws, this filing stays the ruling pending a decision by the Texas Supreme Court,” the appeals statement reads. “Texas pro-life laws are in full effect. This judge’s ruling is not.”
”The trial court’s injunction is ineffective, and the status quo remains in effect,” spokesperson Paige Willey confirmed in an email to the Associated Press.
Scott argued that the exemptions are already in effect, because protecting the mother’s health, “is of paramount importance to the people of Texas, a moral principle enshrined in the law which states that an abortion may be performed under limited circumstances, such as in the event of ‘a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy’ that places the pregnant woman ‘at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced.'”
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Under current Texas law, doctors who are convicted of performing illegal abortions could face life in prison, and fines of up to $100,000.
The trial is set to begin next March 25.
