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Beginning in 2018, Texas parents Jeff Younger and Anne Georgulas fought over custody of their twin children. The case attracted national attention, as one of their children was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age five and presents as a transgender girl, which Georgulas affirms but Younger denies. In 2019, the Dallas County District Court ...
Contents. Abortion in Texas. 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 ...
An Act Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages, also known as Texas House Bill 20 (HB20), is a Texas anti- deplatforming law enacted on September 9, 2021. It prohibits large social media platforms from removing, moderating ...
The Texas Heartbeat Act, Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is an act of the Texas Legislature that bans abortion after the detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac activity, which normally occurs after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law took effect on September 1, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for emergency relief from Texas ...
The Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA; H.R. 8404) is a landmark [1][2][3] United States federal law passed by the 117th United States Congress in 2022 and signed into law by President Joe Biden. It repeals the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), requires the U.S. federal government and all U.S. states and territories (though not tribes) to recognize ...
A revised version of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, with the addition of a serious bodily injury standard, was introduced in the 117th Congress. It passed the House of Representatives on February 28, 2022, and the Senate on March 7, 2022. [35] [36] [37] It was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 29, 2022. [38]
August 15, 2024 at 8:57 AM. By Evan Garcia. DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas woman forced to leave the state for an emergency abortion is urging other voters to back Vice President Kamala Harris, the ...
No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage that does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party. [1] [2] Laws providing for no-fault divorce allow a family court to grant a divorce in response to a petition by either party of the marriage without requiring the petitioner to provide evidence that the defendant has committed a breach of the marital contract.