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28 lis 2023 · Texas’ all-Republican Supreme Court appeared divided Tuesday as it considered whether judges or the state legislature should decide the scope of any exemption to the state’s near-total ban on abortions. A packed courtroom in Austin watched the high court grapple with that question Tuesday.
21 cze 2024 · The Texas Medical Board revised its abortion ban guidance, expanding the definition of dangerous pregnancies while specifying that a terminated pregnancy must occur in the uterus to be...
31 maj 2024 · The court ruled against 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions, saying the medical exceptions in the law were broad enough.
26 cze 2024 · Several prominent lawsuits have tested aspects of Texas abortion law over the past two years, particularly focusing on what qualifies as a medical emergency that necessitates an abortion. Texas law does not offer a definition — rather, doctors are told to use their “reasonable medial judgment.”
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.
28 lis 2023 · Now the justices must decide whether to allow a temporary injunction on the state's abortion bans, including Senate Bill 8, the 2021 law that bans abortions in Texas after cardiac activity in the fetus — about six weeks of pregnancy — except in medical emergencies.
31 maj 2024 · The Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the narrower definition of exceptions in the Texas ban, which allows abortion if in the “reasonable medical judgment” of a doctor a woman faces “risk of...
