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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.
22 sie 2023 · He is the author of SB 8, the nationally known law that allows private citizens to sue people for "aiding and abetting" a Texas abortion. In August 2022, Hughes wrote a letter to the Texas...
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...
9 wrz 2021 · The law, Senate Bill 8, bans most abortions after about six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant — and authorizes citizens to enforce it. Abortion providers in Texas said that 85...
4 wrz 2021 · In a dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Chief Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the Texas legislature circumvented the Constitution by enlisting private citizens to enforce a law that the...
