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.”

After a Travis County district judge cleared the way for Kate Cox, 31, to terminate her pregnancy, Ken Paxton petitioned the state’s highest court to halt the ruling.

Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the state’s Supreme Court to interfere to stop a Dallas woman from receiving an abortion, multiple outlets reported, after a state judge ruled earlier this week she could obtain the procedure due to doctors’ warnings that giving birth would present health complications,