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Texas lawmakers propose abortion pill bill that can’t be challenged in state courts The bill contains many provisions legal experts say are likely unconstitutional, including one that says it ...
In Texas, where strict laws ban abortion with limited exceptions, women are struggling to find quality reproductive health care. Some doctors say the state law is dangerously vague.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Monday, the Texas House Public Health Committee took public testimony on a bill to clarify medical exceptions for abortion in the state of Texas. The Life of the Mother Act ...
Texas bill clarifying state's abortion law unanimously passed by Senate 00:27. ... Physicians can face up to 99 years in prison and be fined up to $100,000 if they perform an illegal abortion.
Texas Republicans are rolling ahead with a controversial bill that seeks to further restrict abortion access in the state, while making it impossible for it to be challenged in state courts, despit… ...
The ambiguity in Texas’ law led to the filing of Senate Bill 31 by Republican Sen. Bryan Hughes, the same lawmaker who authored the 2021 legislation that created the state’s six-week abortion ban.
That the Texas Senate passed a bill to crack down on abortion pills isn’t surprising. But the protections written into this bill, which says the law cannot be challenged as unconstitutional in ...
In 2021, when Texas passed an abortion ban enforced through private lawsuits, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan sarcastically derided the architects of the law as “some geniuses” who’d ...