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The Texas Heartbeat Act, Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is an act of the Texas Legislature that bans abortion after the detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac activity, which normally occurs after about six weeks of pregnancy.
17 wrz 2021 · State Sen. Bryan Hughes authored the six-week abortion ban and the elections bill and carried other conservative priorities that grabbed national attention.
21 sie 2023 · NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin asked the Democrat from Houston who wrote that bill how she got it passed. SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN, BYLINE: Here is the problem as State Representative Ann Johnson...
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.
3 wrz 2021 · First introduced to the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in March, the 'Heartbeat Act' -- a name that some medical professionals have said is intentionally misleading -- was signed into...
12 wrz 2021 · Jonathan F. Mitchell grew increasingly dismayed as he read the Supreme Court’s decision in June 2016 striking down major portions of a Texas anti-abortion bill he had helped write.
10 wrz 2021 · State Senator Bryan Hughes, the primary author of the Texas law, has said his model for the law, known as S. B. 8, was a local ordinance passed in Waskom, Texas, in 2019 that empowered...
