In a rare case, a Texas judge has approved a woman's request to get an abortion because her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition. The judge agreed that an abortion was necessary to protect Kate Cox from a potentially dangerous birth and also preserve her future fertility, however the state attorney general disagrees.

To tell us more, KCBS Radio news anchor Eric Thomas spoke with Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis and author of “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.”