Tex. Health and Safety Code § 245.016
This is the official text of Tex. Health and Safety Code § 245.016, part of Texas’s Health and Safety Code — covers public health and safety regulation.
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§ 245.016. ABORTION IN UNLICENSED ABORTION FACILITY TO PREVENT DEATH OR SERIOUS IMPAIRMENT.
Official statutory text
It is an exception to the application of Section 245.014 that the abortion was performed in an unlicensed abortion facility due to a medical emergency described by Section 170A.002(b)(2). In this section, the term "unlicensed abortion facility" does not include an individual or entity to which funds appropriated by the legislature in the general appropriations act are prohibited from being distributed.
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