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Texas Senate approves legislation banning most abortions, testing Roe v Wade
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Bills restricting abortion, including one that bans procedure as early as six weeks, get initial Texas Senate OK
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The Senate State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly approved the bills after a hearing on the measures ended after midnight Tuesday. Credit: Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune
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Following through on a promise to prioritize anti-abortion legislation, a panel of Texas senators approved a slate of abortion restrictions
Tuesday and sent them to the full chamber for consideration.
Among those seven pieces of legislation was Senate Bill 8, which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, which is before many women know they are pregnant. The bill, one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities, has an exception for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.