Proponents of SB 2880 have singled out Rep. Ken King, House State Affairs committee chair, for letting the bill languish.

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"You have to [be] writing a bill that you’re pretty darn sure is unconstitutional to not want the Texas courts to look at it,” one law professor said of SB 2880, which would have allowed residents to ...

The bill contains many provisions legal experts say are likely unconstitutional, including one that says it can’t be ...

SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Johnson is a Democrat. She says even if the goal of the Texas abortion bans was to stop those elective abortions, the law makes no distinction. Abortion in Texas is banned from ...

Texas lawmakers touted their heartbeat law as an effort to save lives, but the state's near-total ban on abortion appears to have triggered an increase in infant deaths, according to a new study ...

A doctor wears a button on his scrubs in support of Florida's Amendment 4, which would enshrine abortion rights in the state, as doctors and others canvas, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Saturday, Nov ...

UPDATE (Sept. 1, 2021, 10:30 a.m. ET): This piece has been updated throughout to reflect that the Texas abortion law went into effect Wednesday. Texas has spent years attacking access to abortion.

Abortion providers say the legislation would restrict 85% of abortion procedures in Texas. The law is one of the most direct challenges on the boundaries of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 landmark ...