Tex. Health and Safety Code § 171.2011
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 171.2011, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 171.2011. APPLICABILITY.
Official statutory text
(a) This subchapter applies only to an abortion that is otherwise prohibited by law and that is not subject to an exception provided by law.
(b) The following activities do not constitute aiding or abetting under this subchapter:
(1) providing services by a physician or health care provider to a treating physician, or communication between a physician or health care provider and a treating physician, for the purposes of arriving at a reasonable medical judgment as required by an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion;
(2) communicating between a physician or health care provider and a patient, or providing services by a physician or health care provider to a patient, for the purpose of arriving at reasonable medical judgment as required by an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion;
(3) communicating between an attorney and a physician or health care provider related to an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion;
(4) communicating between a treating physician and any other person or providing services to a treating physician or patient relating to performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion for which the treating physician has determined that, in reasonable medical judgment, an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion is applicable; and
(5) providing products to a patient or treating physician relating to performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion for which the treating physician has determined that, in reasonable medical judgment, an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion is applicable.
(b) The following activities do not constitute aiding or abetting under this subchapter:
(1) providing services by a physician or health care provider to a treating physician, or communication between a physician or health care provider and a treating physician, for the purposes of arriving at a reasonable medical judgment as required by an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion;
(2) communicating between a physician or health care provider and a patient, or providing services by a physician or health care provider to a patient, for the purpose of arriving at reasonable medical judgment as required by an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion;
(3) communicating between an attorney and a physician or health care provider related to an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion;
(4) communicating between a treating physician and any other person or providing services to a treating physician or patient relating to performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion for which the treating physician has determined that, in reasonable medical judgment, an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion is applicable; and
(5) providing products to a patient or treating physician relating to performing, inducing, or attempting an abortion for which the treating physician has determined that, in reasonable medical judgment, an exception to an otherwise prohibited abortion is applicable.
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