Abortions in Texas will soon be banned from the moment of fertilization. What else does the Roe v. Wade reversal mean for Texans?
The law criminalizes the person who performs the abortion, not the person who undergoes the procedure.What are the exceptions?
The law calls for the physician to attempt the abortion in a manner that "provides the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive" unless it puts the patient’s life at greater risk or at serious risk of impairment to major bodily function.Demonstrators gather outside Houston's City Hall during a Bans Off Our Bodies rally on May 14, 2022. Anyone who attempts to perform an abortion in violation of the law faces a second-degree felony.
Because of how Republicans wrote the law, which is enforceable only through lawsuits filed by private citizens against doctors or anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion, Texas essentially outmaneuvered decades of Supreme Court precedent governing a women’s constitutional right to an abortion.
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