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Low-Income Women of Texas v. Raiford was filed in the Texas District Court on March 10, 1993, to challenge the Texas state constitutionality of denying state funding for abortions when a physician deems the abortion medically necessary. [33] In 2003, Norma McCorvey filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Dallas with the goal of overturning the ...
Texas became the first U.S. state to ban most abortion in the 21st century with the passage of Senate Bill 8 in 2021 and currently has one of the strictest prohibitions on the procedure in the ...
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.
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.
For the first time since the 2022 Dobbs decision, a pregnant woman asked for court pre-authorization of an abortion, and the story out of Texas has drawn national headlines—as well as misleading ...
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) Texas Heartbeat Act, effective September 1, 2021 ...
Once Texas House Bill 1280, also known as the “trigger law”, is in effect almost all abortion will be banned in the state. Here is what the law prohibits and what it doesn’t.
Texas first enacted a criminal abortion statute in 1854. [1] This was soon modified into language that remained substantially unchanged into the final text. [2] The final article in each of these compilations provided the same exception for an abortion by "medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother." [3]