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Texas has the highest percentage of women without health insurance in the U.S., the outlet reported. In Houston, police have managed to identify a parent in four of the six abandoned baby cases in ...
Texas’ laws restricting abortion access include a ban on abortions after cardiac activity is detected in a fetus and a so called “trigger” law that went into effect soon after Roe v. Wade ...
Texas first enacted Senate Bill 8, a six-week abortion ban, in September 2021, nine months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.
Texas became the first U.S. state to ban most abortion in the 21st century with the passage of Senate Bill 8 in 2021 and currently has one of the strictest prohibitions on the procedure in the ...
The Texas Supreme Court issued a per curiam decision Monday night, but did not actually weigh in on whether Cox’s condition qualified for an abortion under Texas law. Rather, it ruled that ...
The Texas Heartbeat Act contains twelve sections. [55] Although the Act is best known for its provisions that outlaw abortion after cardiac activity has been detected, and that authorize private lawsuits against those who violate the Act, the Act includes other provisions that further restrict abortion and deter litigants from challenging abortion laws in court. [56]
On September 8, 2021, shortly after Texas' abortion ban went into effect, 28-year old Josseli Barnica of Houston, Texas died of sepsis after a Houston hospital refused to treat her miscarriage. [162] On July 10, 2022, 2 weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned, 27-year old Yeni Glick of Luling, Texas died due to pregnancy related complications ...
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 ...