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In response, state lawmakers passed a law that now gives a legal defense to health care providers who exercise “reasonable judgment in providing medical treatment” for an “ectopic pregnancy ...
More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Texas continues to be the largest state in the nation to ban nearly all abortions. But some questions and changes to ...
Laws in several southern states like Texas and North Carolina prohibit doctors from prescribing gender-affirming care medications and surgeries to transgender minors, but experts say many patients ...
On March 15, 2005, six-month-old infant Sun Hudson, who had a lethal congenital malformation, was one of the first children to have care withdrawn under the Texas Futile Treatment Law. [1] [2] Doctors demonstrated in the ethics committee reviews that keeping the infant on a respirator would only delay his inevitable death. Sun died shortly ...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System. It was established by House Bill 2292 in 2003 during the 78th Legislature, [ 1 ] which consolidated twelve different healthcare agencies into five entities under the oversight of HHSC.
Before the trigger law took effect, Texas became the first state to outlaw nearly all abortions in the 21st century with S enate B ill 8, also called the "bounty hunter" law. Passed nine months ...
A law passed in 1992 said that only Texas-licensed physicians could perform an abortion in the state. [33] A law passed in 1997 gave physicians, nurses, health care provider employees and hospital employees who objected to abortions the ability to refuse to participate directly or indirectly in the procedure.
In 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that bans transgender girls from participating in female sports in public schools. Last year, Texas banned gender-affirming health care for ...