The Texas Medical Board’s attempt to clarify when doctors can legally perform emergency abortions falls short and could make working under the state’s near-total ban even worse, dozens of doctors, lawyers and patients warned during a public hearing Monday. The proposed rules, which the board unveiled in March, do not lay out a list of conditions or situations that warrant an emergency abortion.
Here's how the U.S. Supreme Court could reshape emergency abortions in Texas She and others opposing the proposed rules, including the Texas Medical Association and the Texas Hospital Association, singled out the new documentation requirements as excessive. They say doctors must note in a patient’s medical record how the decision was made to proceed with the abortion and what alternatives were ruled out or attempted, among other things.
Ken Paxton warns Houston hospitals not to comply with judge’s emergency abortion order Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has said he would help local officials enforce the ban, and hours after a state judge gave Cox permission to get an emergency abortion in December, he warned that a district or county attorney could prosecute any doctor who provided her one.
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