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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 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."
Abortion is illegal in Texas, [198] except when necessary to save the pregnant woman's life. There are no exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal abnormalities. [5] [119] [199] The Roe v. Wade case, tried in Texas, stands at the center of years of national debate about the issue of abortion. [200]
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a woman who underwent a failed sterilization procedure is not entitled to damages for the birth of a healthy child.
A Texas law that banned abortions in early pregnancy is associated with a stark increase in infant and newborn deaths, a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found. Lawmakers passed Texas ...
Approximately 15% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 64 don’t have health insurance, according to data from the most recent National Health Interview Survey. The most common reason adults cited for being...
Individual (non-group) health insurance plans could exclude maternity coverage for a pre-existing condition of pregnancy. [2] Group health insurance plans sponsored by employers with 15 or more employees were prohibited by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 from excluding maternity coverage for a pre-existing condition of pregnancy; this ...
Russo on June 29, 2020, in a 5–4 decision that a Louisiana state law, modeled after the Texas law at the center of Whole Woman's Health, was unconstitutional. [118] Like Texas' law, the Louisiana law required certain measures for abortion clinics that, if having gone into effect, would have closed five of the six clinics in the state.