Newly released statistics from 2023 show that minors in Texas are traveling out of the state to have abortions and the numbers are rising.

Nonetheless, Texas’ abortion ban, which threatens providers with life in prison among other steep penalties, offers no exception for rape. One year before Roe, in September 2021, the state enacted SB 8,

Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says the Legislature should amend the language of the state's near-total abortion ban to address confusion over when doctors may terminate pregnancies.

"I do think that we need to clarify any language so that doctors are not in fear of being penalized if they think the life of the mother is at risk," Patrick said Sunday on WFAA's "Inside Texas Politics" after he was asked whether he expected "any significant abortion legislation,

The rise in out-of-state abortions comes as the overall number of Texas minors accessing the procedure has plummeted. In the years before the abortion ban took effect in August 2022, between ...

Doctors need clearer, better law supporting emergency abortion care for women and girls. Here's how the Legislature can do that.

“I think it’s clear, but I’m also open to the idea that some doctors don’t see it that way, some hospitals don’t think that way,” said Patrick, a Republican who presides over the Texas Senate. “We don’t want to stand in the way of that, but we’re not going to open it up so that abortion is prevalent again in the state.”

Amanda Zurawski, who nearly died after being denied an abortion, has been fighting to clarify the medical exception to Texas law for years. For the first time, Republicans might be willing to take up the issue.

Texas’ abortion restrictions have forced the closure of clinics that also provide contraceptive services and sex education.

Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)(Rebecca Blackwell / AP) Doctors have long voiced concerns about Texas' strict and vague abortion ban, which they worry has complicated efforts ...

A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.