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.

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 District Attorney ...

FILE - 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 ...