During an emergency hearing Thursday, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble granted a temporary restraining order against the law for any doctor who performs an abortion for Cox stating, "The idea that Ms. Cox wants desperately to be a parent and this law might actually cause her to lose that ability is shocking and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday asked the Texas Supreme Court to halt a lower court ruling that would allow a Texas woman to get an emergency abortion.

Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking a controversial abortion case to the Texas Supreme Court. He has asked the state's highest court to block Kate Cox, 31, of Dallas woman from terminating her pregnancy,