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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 170A.002

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§ 170A.002. PROHIBITED ABORTION; EXCEPTIONS.

Official statutory text

(a) A person may not knowingly perform, induce, or attempt an abortion.

(b) It is an exception to the application of Subsection (a) that:

(1) the person performing, inducing, or attempting the abortion is a licensed physician; and

(2) in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment, the pregnant female on whom the abortion is performed, induced, or attempted has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced.

(c) A physician may not take an action authorized under Subsection (b) if, at the time the abortion was performed, induced, or attempted, the person knew the risk of death or a substantial impairment of a major bodily function described by Subsection (b)(2) arose from a claim or diagnosis that the female would engage in conduct that might result in the female's death or in substantial impairment of a major bodily function.

(c-1) For purposes of Subsection (b)(2), if a pregnant woman has a life-threatening physical condition described by Subsection (b)(2), a physician may address a risk described by Subsection (b)(2) before the pregnant female suffers any effects of the risk. Subsection (b)(2) does not require that, before the physician may act:

(1) a risk described by Subsection (b)(2) be imminent;

(2) the pregnant female first suffer physical impairment; or

(3) the physical condition has caused damage to the pregnant female.

(c-2) For the purposes of Subsection (b)(2), "life-threatening" means capable of causing death or potentially fatal. A life-threatening physical condition is not necessarily one actively injuring the patient.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 758 (S.B. 31), Sec. 17(2), eff. June 20, 2025.

Status: repealed · Read it on the official government site

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