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24 cze 2022 · Texas’ ban on abortion makes exceptions for cases in which an abortion would save the pregnant patient’s life or prevent “substantial impairment of major bodily function.”
6 dni temu · For the 2025 Texas legislative session, lawmakers have filed bills to both expand exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban and make it easier to prosecute violations of the law. The current policy requires doctors to use their “reasonable medical judgment” when determining if they need to terminate a pregnancy to save a patient ...
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...
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.
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.”
31 maj 2024 · Senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights and lead attorney in the case, Molly Duane, said in a call with reporters that the court’s ruling provided a “feeble answer” to the question of when a person in Texas can receive an abortion under the medical exception.
7 paź 2024 · WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.
