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The new analysis comes as Texas legislators consider amending the abortion ban in the wake of ProPublica’s previous reporting, and as doctors, federal lawmakers and the state’s largest ...
In 2011, Texas was one of six states where the legislature introduced a bill that would have banned abortion in almost all cases. It did not pass. [ 63 ] In 2011, the state legislature voted to defund family planning funding, including for the Women's Health Program; these programs were replaced by state-funded abortion alternative programs ...
A different six-week abortion ban, HB 59, was previously introduced in Texas by Representative Phil King on July 18, 2013. [31] The bill did not pass. [32] [33] In 2019, another six-week abortion ban was introduced as HB 1500, which was jointly authored by Representatives Briscoe Cain, Phil King, the late Dan Flynn, Tan Parker, and Rick Miller ...
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 ...
Texas lawmakers have already introduced bills that would ban selling abortion pills online; those who sell or distribute the medications through the Internet could be found guilty of a felony.
A ban on abortion at 20 weeks post-fertilization and recognize that the state has a compelling interest to protect fetuses from pain (aka a "fetal pain" bill). [ 3 ] Requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital within 30 miles (48 km).
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 passed the Texas Heartbeat Act in May 2021, with the bill going into effect on September 1, 2021. One of several heartbeat bills in the country, Texas's bill banned abortion once "cardiac activity" in an embryo can be detected, typically after six weeks of pregnancy. [5] Because of the potential conflict with the Supreme Court's ruling in ...