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A 2024 Montana Supreme Court decision established that minors do not need parental consent to have an abortion, overruling a state law. [130] The Montana Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that abortion was a right implicitly granted by the state constitution. [131] Legislative initiatives were passed in hopes of challenging that ruling.
Disturbing new statistics released by a Texas state agency revealed that more than 100 children aged 17 and younger – including some as young as 11 – traveled out of state to receive abortions ...
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The cities of Austin, [19] Dallas, [20] Denton, [21] El Paso, [22] and Houston [23] have enacted resolutions instructing city officials to deprioritize enforcement of the state's abortion laws, but anyone violating the state's abortion laws in those cities remains subject to criminal prosecution by the district attorney (a county official) and ...
Texas also technically has a century-old abortion ban on the books. Attorney General Ken Paxton released an advisory opinion in June 2022 arguing that the "1925 laws" could still be enforced ...
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared.
Texas abortion statute (or statutes) may refer to one of these laws enacted by the Texas Legislature in the U.S. state of Texas: Texas abortion statutes (1961), portions of the 1961 Texas Penal Code which were held to be unconstitutional in the U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade (decided 1973)
In Texas, that means a trigger law, House Bill 1280, will soon criminalize abortion at any time after fertilization. The ban will take effect 30 days after the final judgment in Dobbs v.