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31 paź 2024 · Current Law. Texas had already put its six-week abortion ban, known as Senate Bill 8, into effect before the Dobbs decision. However, this ruling led to even stricter regulations.
26 cze 2024 · Texas case, which played out in December 2023, the Supreme Court of Texas refused to rule that a specific woman, Kate Cox, could receive an abortion under the state’s emergency medical provision. In its opinion, the court said it was up to doctors, not judges, to exercise medical judgment.
11 maj 2022 · WASHINGTON — Democrats tried and failed on Wednesday to push forward legislation to guarantee abortion rights nationwide, as Republicans and one Democrat in the Senate blocked an effort to enshrine...
8 paź 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — A court order that says hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a Texas abortion ban will stay for now, the Supreme Court...
4 wrz 2021 · The state’s Senate Bill 8, one of the most restrictive abortion bans to be signed into law, bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — including in cases of rape and incest — and...
1 lis 2021 · Liberal Justice Elena Kagan told lawyers for Texas that when the Supreme Court made abortion legal across the US in 1973, "no state dreamed" of trying to bypass a federal ruling.
2 wrz 2021 · In an unsigned ruling backed by a narrow 5-4 majority, the court justices allowed a Texas law banning all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to go into effect. The move stunned many legal...
