Companies USU Software AG FollowMarch 7 (Reuters) - Five women who said they were denied abortions despite grave risk to their lives or fetuses sued Texas on Monday, in the first apparent case of pregnant women suing over curbs imposed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Texas, like most of the 13 states with abortion bans, allows exceptions when a physician finds that there is a medical emergency. Texas banned abortion shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed abortion rights nationwide. Four of the women in Monday's lawsuit had to travel out of state to obtain abortions in order to avoid serious medical complications. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Brendan Pierson in New York; Editing by Mark Porter and Alexia GaramfalviOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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