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Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. [1] There are nominally exceptions to save the mother's life, or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful pregnancies do not explicitly constitute an exception.
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision [1] of the US Supreme Court announced on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, also referred to as Senate Bill 8 or SB 8 for short, [6] is a law enacted by the Republican majorities in the 87th Texas Legislature during its regular session that prohibits abortion, including in cases of rape and incest, 6 weeks into a woman's pregnancy.
Texas has some of the strictest abortion laws in the country, but some advocates want the state to go further and “abolish abortion” by extending criminal penalties to abortion patients.
Texas laws ban abortion except when a pregnant person is facing a "life-threatening condition." The results indicate that OB-GYNs, of whom a shortage already exists in Texas, are experiencing ...
D octors, legal scholars and reproductive health experts have said state law is unclear, raising questions about when an abortion can legally be performed. Texas law allows an abortion when a ...
This law made performing an abortion a felony punishable by up to life in prison, with only narrow exceptions to save the life of the pregnant patient. As a result, Texas now had three abortion bans in effect simultaneously: SB8, the trigger law, and several statutes passed prior to Roe. [6]
In Texas, that means a trigger law, House Bill 1280, will soon criminalize abortion at any time after fertilization. The ban will take effect 30 days after the final judgment in Dobbs v.