Five women have filed a lawsuit against Texas, claiming that the state’s laws prevented them from getting abortions despite life-threatening circumstances in their pregnancies, in what is being deemed the first lawsuit brought by women denied abortions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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