5 women are suing Texas in an attempt to clarify the state’s abortion law when it comes to necessary medical procedures.

TEXAS, USA. Five Texas women are suing the state along with Attorney General Ken Paxton in an attempt to clarify Texas abortion law when it comes to medically necessary procedures.

The women said health problems prevented them from having children and they couldn’t get the help they needed due to the Texas ban on abortion.

One woman said she should have developed sepsis before doctors performed the procedure to save her life. The remaining four said they eventually had to move out of state, despite the fact that some of them were ill at the time, in order to undergo the abortion procedure.

Because of the hassle, they teamed up with two Houston doctors to sue the state, the attorney general and the Texas Medical Board for clarification on the abortion ban.

“Doctors are horrified,” said Molly Duane, senior lawyer for the Center for Reproductive Rights. “They face losing their license, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and life in prison. They’re not even sure if they can say the word ‘abortion’ out loud.”

The women who came together in the lawsuit said they all feel like their lives were put at risk for no reason.

“They can do something, but they don’t, and it’s killing us,” said Lauren Miller, who is involved in the lawsuit.

“I love Texas and it kills me that my own state doesn’t seem to care if I live or die,” said Lauren Hall, another woman involved in the lawsuit.

Paxton’s office said he would do everything in his power “to protect mothers, families, and unborn children, and to uphold the laws of the state, duly enacted by the Texas Legislature.”

No comments were received from the other defendants in the claim of HOU 11.

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