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A group of Texas women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions sued the state of Texas in 2023 seeking to clarify the law. The Texas Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit in 2024 ...
More than 35,000 people traveled out of Texas for abortions in 2023, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that works to advance sexual and reproductive health rights.
Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. 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. [ 1][ 2][ 3] This has ...
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision [ 1] of the US Supreme Court announced on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion. On June 28, 2016, the Supreme Court refused to hear ...
XI. Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson, 595 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case brought by Texas abortion providers and abortion rights advocates that challenged the constitutionality of the Texas Heartbeat Act, a law that outlaws abortions after six weeks. [ 1] The Texas Heartbeat Act prohibits state officials from enforcing ...
Providers said issues accessing the drugs largely began with the enactment of Texas Senate Bill 4, a law restricting access to “abortion-inducing drug(s),” in 2021.
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 penal code makes performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison and a fine between $100 and $1,000. Another Texas law, Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act ...