Jill Biden invites Kate Cox, Texas woman who was denied emergency abortion, to be State of the Union guest

First girl Jill Biden has invited Kate Cox — the Texas lady who was denied an emergency abortion by the state’s Supreme Court docket — to President Biden’s State of the Union handle in March, the White Home stated Wednesday. 

White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated the president and first girl known as Cox Sunday to speak about her case and expertise, and the primary girl invited Cox to affix her in her field for the handle. Cox has accepted, Jean-Pierre stated.  

“On Sunday, the president and first girl spoke to Kate Cox, who was compelled to go to courtroom to hunt permission for the care she wanted for a nonviable being pregnant that threatened her life, that threatened her life,” Jean-Pierre stated. “They thanked her for her braveness in sharing her story and talking out concerning the impression of the intense abortion ban in Texas.” 

Cox, 32, and her husband, Justin, had been dad and mom to a lady and boy already after they found in August 2023 that she was pregnant with their third baby. However a collection of checks revealed the newborn they had been anticipating had critical medical issues, together with trisomy 18, a extreme genetic situation. The Cox household was informed their child would dwell per week at finest, if she survived the being pregnant and beginning, and Kate Cox stated she feared for her personal well being and security. 

However Texas has successfully banned abortions, and Kate Cox’s request to acquire a courtroom order for an abortion was denied by the state Supreme Court docket. In the end, Cox left the state and obtained an abortion in New Mexico, and stated goodbye to the newborn she and her husband had named “Chloe.” 

President Biden and Democrats are making abortion points entrance and middle within the 2024 presidential marketing campaign. They’re portray Republicans as extremist on the problem and pointing to former President Donald Trump’s appointment of three of the 5 conservative justices who in the end voted to overturn Roe. 

“For 54 years, they had been making an attempt to get Roe v Wade terminated. And I did it and I am proud to have executed it,” Trump stated throughout a city corridor in Iowa earlier this month, prompting quick backlash from the Biden-Harris marketing campaign. 

“As Trump proudly brags he was the one who removed Roe v. Wade, paving the way in which for Republican extremists throughout the nation to move draconian bans which are hurting girls and threatening medical doctors … one-in-three girls of reproductive age now dwell underneath an abortion ban,” Biden-Harris marketing campaign supervisor Julie Chavez Rodriguez informed reporters in response to that Trump remark. 

The Biden marketing campaign and Democrats see abortion as a vital subject within the 2024 presidential election, buoyed by poll measures in conservative states which have actualized protections to abortion entry. Voters in Ohio and Kansas have voted to guard entry to abortion, as state legislatures across the nation have sought to limit abortions in mild of Roe. 

Final 12 months, Jill Biden invited Amanda Zurawski, one of many Texas girls who later filed a lawsuit in opposition to the state to make clear the state’s abortion legal guidelines. Based on her testimony within the lawsuit, Zurwaski suffered from plenty of medical issues whereas pregnant and knew she would miscarry, however medical doctors informed her they might not induce labor as a result of the fetus nonetheless had a heartbeat. 

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