More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, Texas continues to be the largest state in the nation to ban nearly all abortions. But some questions and changes to abortion and birth control access have arisen since then.
Here's where reproductive health care currently stands in Texas. This story may be updated if there is relevant news and changes.It is still illegal to perform an abortion in Texas, including by dispensing or mailing the abortion-inducing medications mifepristone and misoprostol, in most circumstances. Texas' laws have narrow exceptions only to save the life or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function" of a pregnant patient.
says treatments for miscarriages, known as "spontaneous abortions" in medicine, and ectopic pregnancies, in which a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus and becomes unviable, do not count as illegal abortions. However, there wereof medical providers delaying medical care for these conditions due to confusion or the threat of jail time and six-figure fines for medical professionals.