A Texas prosecutor has been disciplined for allowing murder charges to be filed against a woman who self-managed an abortion in a case that sparked national outrage. Starr County Dist. Atty. Gocha ...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL (Associated Press) A Texas prosecutor has been disciplined for allowing murder charges to be filed against a woman who self-managed an abortion in a case that sparked national ...

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 enforces one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, which offers no carve-out for rape, incest, or severe fetal abnormality. The state’s vague language on what constitutes a ...

How Texas' abortion laws have impacted medical care. Twenty states, including Texas, banned or severely restricted abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 14, 2022. In news reports Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, a prosecutor whose office charged a woman with ...