AURORA, Colo. -- Adverse maternal outcomes, particularly sepsis, increased in pregnancies with previable premature rupture of membranes (PROM) after a Texas bill limiting abortion took effect, according to a retrospective cohort study.
Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and during this legislative session, anti-abortion advocates are hoping to foreclose on the few remaining avenues left to end a pregnancy. “Texans are still being victims of abortion,
Newly released statistics from 2023 show that minors in Texas are traveling out of the state to have abortions and the numbers are rising.
Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."
Nonetheless, Texas’ abortion ban, which threatens providers with life in prison among other steep penalties, offers no exception for rape. One year before Roe, in September 2021, the state enacted SB 8,
Patrick on Sunday said the Legislature should amend the language of the state’s near-total abortion ban to address confusion over when doctors may terminate pregnancies.
The rise in out-of-state abortions comes as the overall number of Texas minors accessing the procedure has plummeted. In the years before the abortion ban took effect in August 2022, between ...
Patrick is the first major Republican official in Texas to say he supports clarifying the state's near-total abortion ban this legislative session.
Texas’ abortion restrictions have forced the closure of clinics that also provide contraceptive services and sex education.
Texas doctors have said for years that the state's abortion ban is vague and unclear. Could the legislature fix that?
Patients and doctors have said the ban's only exception is so vague and the penalties are so steep that providers are reluctant to perform emergency abortions.
Amanda Zurawski, who nearly died after being denied an abortion, has been fighting to clarify the medical exception to Texas law for years. For the first time, Republicans might be willing to take up the issue.