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Zurawski v. State of Texas is a case heard by the Texas Supreme Court regarding medical exceptions to the state's abortion ban. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on March 6, 2023. On August 4, 2023, State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum granted the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction; the state of Texas appealed ...
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 ...
United States v. Texas, 595 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that involved the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, a state law that bans abortion once a "fetal heartbeat" [ a] is detected, typically six weeks into pregnancy. A unique feature of the Act, and challenges to it, is the delegation of ...
Abortion rights legal advocacy group Center for Reproductive Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of the women in March to force Texas authorities to clarify emergency medical exceptions to the ...
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 ...
While some state abortion laws (see Indiana and Florida) include an exception for fatal fetal-health conditions, Texas law allows abortion only when a doctor exercising “reasonable medical ...
In one of the most high-profile abortion cases since the fall of Roe V. Wade, a Texas woman has been battling the state to terminate her high-risk pregnancy — a legal dispute that could have ...
The Texas Heartbeat Act contains twelve sections. [56] Although the Act is best known for its provisions that outlaw abortion after cardiac activity has been detected, and that authorize private lawsuits against those who violate the Act, the Act includes other provisions that further restrict abortion and deter litigants from challenging abortion laws in court. [57]