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The measure, which now heads to the House, would make the language that defines a medical emergency consistent across Texas’ various abortion statutes.

The bill now heads to the Texas House for approval. At the same time, the Texas Senate is cracking down on abortion pills. Other states making abortion news include North Carolina, Oklahoma, and ...

Senate Bill 31, passed by the Texas Senate, clarifies that doctors can act sooner in medical emergencies under the state’s ...

The bill does not expand access or exceptions but aims to clarify the existing law to make clear when doctors can intervene to save a pregnant patient's life.

The US Senate has passed a bill that would crack down on abortion-inducing drugs and expand wrongful death penalties for abortion, but it now faces a harder road in the US House of Representatives.

Texas lawmakers advanced a bill to change the language in the state's abortion laws in an effort to clarify when doctors are ...

The Life of the Mother Act would allow physicians to intervene and provide abortion care to pregnant women in medical ...

The Texas Senate unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that aims to clarify when doctors can perform an abortion under the ...

Two groups release studies based on same insurance claims database, finding nearly 11% rate of serious adverse reactions to ...