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A group of Texas women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions sued the state of Texas in 2023 seeking to clarify the law. The Texas Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit in 2024 ...
Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. [1] There are nominally exceptions to save the mother's life, or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful pregnancies do not explicitly constitute an exception.
This guide will walk you through the laws and penalties that govern abortion access and restrictions in Texas. Everything you need to know about the Texas abortion ban: exceptions, regulations ...
Moayedi and Ivey both stressed that Texas laws allow medical providers to treat pregnancy complications in which a fetus has died, but that the severity of the penalties associated with the state ...
The Texas Heartbeat Act contains twelve sections. [55] Although the Act is best known for its provisions that outlaw abortion after cardiac activity has been detected, and that authorize private lawsuits against those who violate the Act, the Act includes other provisions that further restrict abortion and deter litigants from challenging abortion laws in court. [56]
June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a Louisiana state law placing hospital-admission requirements on abortion clinics doctors was unconstitutional. The law mirrored a Texas state law that the Court found unconstitutional in 2016 in Whole
In some states, overturning Roe v. Wade has impacted health care for women, regardless of whether they are pregnant.
A 2024 Montana Supreme Court decision established that minors do not need parental consent to have an abortion, overruling a state law. [128] The Montana Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that abortion was a right implicitly granted by the state constitution. [129] Legislative initiatives were passed in hopes of challenging that ruling.