Mother, 31, who won the right to an abortion in Texas leaves the state to terminate her unviable pregnancy legally after AG Ken Paxton threatened legal action against doctors who performed the procedure

A Texas mother who sued and won her right to an abortion despite the state’s ban on the procedure left the state after the state last week banned her from having a medically necessary abortion.

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, has won a rare fight against an abortion ban in the Lone Star State after her pregnancy was deemed non-viable. She claimed that she could lose her uterus if the pregnancy continued, which would prevent her from having a third child in the future.

“After a week of litigation and threats of prosecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, our client Kate Cox was forced to leave her home state of Texas to obtain urgent abortion care needed to protect her health and future fertility,” the Center for Reproductive Rights confirmed in social networks.

It is unclear where Cox will get the abortion.

Dallas mom Kate Cox, 31, is carrying a baby diagnosed with a chromosomal abnormality that will almost certainly result in death before or shortly after birth.

Cox, a married mom from Dallas, decided with her doctor that her pregnancy should be terminated after she learned that the baby inside her would die at birth and that carrying the baby to term could hurt her chances of having a future pregnancy.

Because of the Lone Star State’s abortion ban, Cox asked a judge to grant her a medical exemption from a state law that does not allow abortions after six weeks, a period when most women don’t even know they are pregnant.

A judge ruled in Cox’s favor last week, but just days later Attorney General Ken Paxton, himself the target of multiple criminal investigations, challenged the ruling in the state’s highest court.

The state Supreme Court has ruled to block abortion for now.

“The past week of legal uncertainty has been hell for Kate,” said Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

“Her health is at stake. She was in and out of the emergency room and couldn’t wait any longer. This is why judges and politicians should not make decisions about pregnant women’s health care.”

It’s unclear where Cox fled to, but her lawyers say her story shows why abortion bans are so dangerous.

“Kate desperately wanted to be able to receive medical care where she lived and recover at home, surrounded by family,” Northup added.

“While Kate had the opportunity to leave the state, most people do not and a situation like this could be a death sentence.”