New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some Texas doctors
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Texas’ laws allow abortions to save a patient’s life but doctors have struggled to apply that exception in practice
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New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some Texas doctors
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Doctors who perform life-saving abortions may soon be required to document whether they first tried to transfer the patient to another facility to avoid terminating the
New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some Texas doctors
Some health lawyers and doctors in Texas say they're worried that proposed requirements could further disincentivize providers from performing medically necessary, but legally risky, abortions. The Texas Medical Board proposal would require doctors to document whether there was time to transfer a patient “by any means available” to avoid an abortion. Dallas health care lawyer Rachael Gearing to The Texas Tribune that the proposal creates even mo…
New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some doctors
Health lawyers and doctors worry this proposed requirement further disincentivizes doctors from performing medically necessary, but legally risky, abortions.
New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some docto…
The proposed guidance from the Texas Medical Board would require doctors to document whether there was time to transfer a patient “by any means available” to avoid performing an abortion.
New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some doctors
Members of the public and media listen during the Texas Medical Board Full Board Meeting in the George H.W. Bush Building in Austin, Texas on Mar. 22, 2024. All the seats in the room were filled as everyone listened while they talked about agenda item number 28, ‘Consideration and possible action on rules regarding exceptions to the ban on abortions.’ Credit: Maria Crane/The Texas Tribune By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune Doctors who perfo…
