Bill Text: TX HB69 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting abortion at or after 12 weeks post-fertilization.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-25 - Referred to Public Health [HB69 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB69-Introduced.html
87R875 JG-F | ||
By: Toth | H.B. No. 69 |
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relating to prohibiting abortion at or after 12 weeks | ||
post-fertilization. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter C, Chapter 171, Health | ||
and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER C. ABORTION PROHIBITED AT OR AFTER 12 [ |
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POST-FERTILIZATION | ||
SECTION 2. Section 171.044, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 171.044. ABORTION OF UNBORN CHILD OF 12 [ |
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WEEKS POST-FERTILIZATION AGE PROHIBITED. Except as otherwise | ||
provided by Section 171.046, a person may not perform or induce or | ||
attempt to perform or induce an abortion on a woman if it has been | ||
determined, by the physician performing, inducing, or attempting to | ||
perform or induce the abortion or by another physician on whose | ||
determination that physician relies, that the probable | ||
post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 12 [ |
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SECTION 3. Section 171.045(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) This section applies only to an abortion authorized | ||
under Section 171.046(a)(1) or (2) in which: | ||
(1) the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn | ||
child is 12 [ |
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(2) the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn | ||
child has not been determined but could reasonably be 12 [ |
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more weeks. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 171.046(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The prohibitions and requirements under Sections | ||
171.043, 171.044, and 171.045(b) do not apply to an abortion | ||
performed if there exists a condition that, in the physician's | ||
reasonable medical judgment, so complicates the medical condition | ||
of the woman that, to avert the woman's death or a serious risk of | ||
substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily | ||
function, other than a psychological condition, it necessitates, as | ||
applicable: | ||
(1) the immediate abortion of her pregnancy without | ||
the delay necessary to determine the probable post-fertilization | ||
age of the unborn child; | ||
(2) the abortion of her pregnancy even though the | ||
post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 12 [ |
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or | ||
(3) the use of a method of abortion other than a method | ||
described by Section 171.045(b). | ||
SECTION 5. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an abortion performed, induced, or attempted on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. An abortion performed, induced, or | ||
attempted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the | ||
law in effect on the date the abortion was performed, induced, or | ||
attempted, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |