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Their evaluation work continued after the 83rd Texas Legislature in 2013, when the legislature added funding streams for family planning to the 2014–15 budget and passed Texas House Bill 2, an omnibus bill restricting abortion care that was introduced in a special legislative session in summer 2013. HB 2 placed limits on medication abortion ...
The maternal healthcare system in Texas has undergone legislative changes in funding and the provision of family planning and abortion services, in relation to other states in the United States. The system in Texas has also received attention in regards to the state's maternal mortality ratio, currently the highest in the United States. [3]
TX SB 1534 dealt with funding, stating that no state funding could be used to support, either directly or indirectly, abortion or abortion-related issues. Introduced by Democratic Senator Gonzalo Barrientos on March 20, 1997, the wording about abortion was only added to the legislation during negotiations between the House and the Senate, with ...
A study published in 2024 shows that Texas held the highest rape-related pregnancies of all the states with total abortion bans. An estimated 26,000 became pregnant between July 2022 and January ...
Numerous Texas OB-GYNs have made plans to retire early or move to another state as a result of the abortion bans, as per the survey results, with 4% of respondents saying they planned to practice ...
The Texas Legislature banned abortion care as early as five weeks into pregnancy in September 2021, nearly a year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — the case that protected a ...
Rosie's Law is a proposed legislative act in Texas aimed at restoring health insurance coverage for abortion care services. First introduced by Texas House Representative Sheryl Cole in 2019, the law seeks to lift the state Medicaid funding ban for abortion care, include abortion services in the Texas Medicaid program, and repeal the 2017 ban on abortion coverage through private insurance and ...
Texas' Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee met Tuesday for the first time since anti-abortion OB-GYN Dr. Ingrid Skop was appointed. Texas maternal death task force: Tensions rise ...