The Texas Supreme Court permanently blocked a judges ruling allowing a Texas woman to have an emergency abortion, just hours after her lawyers said she was forced to travel out of state for the procedure.

The courts seven-page ruling comes days after it temporarily blocked the judges decision to let Kate Cox have an abortion.

Earlier in the day, the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the lawsuit on Coxs behalf, shared in a series of tweets that Cox had traveled out of state for the time-sensitive procedure.

After a week of legal whiplash and threats of prosecution from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, our client Kate Cox has been forced to flee her home state of Texas to get the time-sensitive abortion care needed to protect her health and future fertility, it said.

Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, filed her lawsuit last week while 20 weeks pregnant after her doctor informed her that her fetus was unlikely to make it to term or survive long outside the womb. The pregnancy would also risk her life and ability to carry future children, doctors warned her.

This past week of legal limbo has been hellish for Kate, Nancy Northup, the centers CEO and president, said in a statement. Her health is on the line. Shes been in and out of the emergency room and she couldnt wait any longer. This is why judges and politicians should not be making healthcare decisions for pregnant people.