Posted on · The law allows private citizens to sue anyone who performs or helps someone get an abortion after roughly six weeks. If successful, the plaintiff could be awarded at least $10,000.
Posted on · The Supreme Court declined to block the law in a 5 to 4 vote. The new Texas law states that abortions are banned after "cardiac activity" is detected in the fetus, estimated at six weeks, without exemptions for incest or rape.
Posted on · Unlike other abortion restrictions, the state is not enforcing this ban. Instead it is up to private citizens to sue.
Posted on · Gov. Greg Abbott has said he intends to sign the abortion bill into law.
Posted on · The family of a 46-year-old man with end-stage liver disease is fighting the decision of an ethics committee at Methodist Hospital which determined that further treatment is medically inappropriate.
Posted on · A trial is set to begin today in an Austin federal court over a lawsuit that seeks to block further implementation of the abortion legislation that passed in a special session of the Texas Legislature last year. Part of the law took effect last November, which reduced the number of places in Texas that can […]