Texas became on Wednesday the largest state with a law that bans abortions before many women even know they are pregnant – without exceptions for rape or incest. The new Texas law will go into effect in September if it is not first stopped by the courts. The Supreme Court, however, agreed this week to take up a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Greg Abbott puts Texas in line with more than a dozen other states that ban abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat, as early as six weeks. Texas law currently bans abortion after 20 weeks, with exceptions for a woman with a life-threatening medical condition or if the fetus has a severe abnormality.

Source: Daily Mail May 19, 2021 15:16 UTC