The heartless treatment of Kate Cox in Texas

If anyone has tried telling you that conservative state laws on abortion will still allow merciful exceptions in cases involving agonizing medical nightmares, please ask them to explain to you what happened in Texas this week.

Earlier this month, a Dallas-area woman named Kate Cox, a mother of two who was pregnant with a much-wanted third child, asked courts to grant her an exception to the state’s post-Roe antiabortion legislation because that much-wanted child had been diagnosed with a fatal genetic condition that almost always results in miscarriage or stillbirth. On Monday, the Texas Supreme Court rejected her request. Exception denied.