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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.
Selected Bible verses and perspectives Passage Perspective allowing abortion Perspective against abortion Genesis 2:7 (Garden of Eden narrative, see also Soul in the Bible § Genesis 2:7) - "Then the L ORD [note 1] God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being".
But it is not true to say that this was an instance of the courts denying an abortion in a life-threatening circumstance, as Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas Democratic congressman, wrote on ...
The Catholic Church and abortion in the United States deals with the views and activities of the Catholic Church in the United States in relation to the abortion debate.The Catholic Church opposes abortion and has campaigned against abortion in the United States, both saying that it is immoral and making statements and taking actions in opposition to its classification as legal.
A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced ...
Zaafran, the medical board's chair, said that making a complete list of conditions that meet the legal standard to qualify for an abortion would supersede medical judgment and make a regulatory ...
Abortion, merely for the purpose of eliminating an unwanted child, is strongly deprecated in the BaháΚΌí Faith, although medical reasons may warrant it.Among the possible reasons for terminating a pregnancy are rape, incest, lack of viability of the fetus, and health of the mother. [6]
The Texas Health and Safety Code does not count birth control or contraceptives as a form of abortion. The right to purchase and use contraception was established in two Supreme Court cases ...