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Anyone who manufactures, mails or delivers abortion pills to someone in Texas could be sued for $100,000 under a bill that preliminarily passed the Senate on Tuesday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/04/30/520123/wide-ranging-crackdown-on-abortion-pills-passes-texas-senate/

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The case of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old woman from the Houston area, raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/healthcare/2024/11/26/507153/a-third-woman-died-under-texas-abortion-ban-as-doctors-reach-for-riskier-miscarriage-treatments/

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Since summer 2022, all abortions have been banned in Texas, except to save the life of the pregnant patient. But doctors, and their patients with medically complex pregnancies, have struggled with implementing the medical exception.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/01/03/473377/emergency-rooms-not-required-to-perform-life-saving-abortions-federal-appeals-court-rules/

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