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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.
Texas’ abortion ban not only outlaws most abortions but also allows for civil and criminal litigation against abortion providers and those transporting women and girls to have them.
The Texas Policy Evaluation Project, or TxPEP, is a collaborative group of university-based investigators who evaluate the impact of legislation in Texas related to women's reproductive health. It began in the fall of 2011 with the purpose of documenting and evaluating the impact of reproductive health legislation passed by the 82nd Texas ...
Texas abortion ban clarifications Since Texas enacted one of the nation's strictest abortion bans in 2021, the state's Supreme Court has been tapped to clarify and even consider overturning the law.
Civil liability is possible under SB 8 and a person could be charged with a crime under the 1925 penal code for assisting someone in getting an abortion. Texas’s homicide statute could also be ...
Texas House Bill 2 (HB2) is a bill within the Eighty-third Texas Legislature, first introduced into the Texas Senate as Texas Senate Bill 5 (SB5) on June 11, 2013, related to abortion rights within the state.
On August 29, 2014, US District Judge Lee Yeakel struck down as unconstitutional two provisions of Texas' omnibus anti-abortion bill, House Bill 2 that was to come into effect on September 1. The regulation would have closed about a dozen abortion clinics, leaving only eight places in Texas to get a legal abortion, all located in major cities.