Texas Senate Approves Legislation to Clarify Exceptions to Abortion Ban
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The Texas Senate has unanimously passed legislation that aims to prevent maternal deaths under the state’s strict abortion ban.
Written in response to a ProPublica investigation last year, Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, represents a remarkable turn among the Republican lawmakers who were the original supporters of the ban. For the first time in four years, they acknowledged that women were being denied care because of confusion about the law and took action to clarify its terms.