Newly released statistics from 2023 show that minors in Texas are traveling out of the state to have abortions and the numbers are rising.

Nonetheless, Texas’ abortion ban, which threatens providers with life in prison among other steep penalties, offers no exception for rape. One year before Roe, in September 2021, the state enacted SB 8,

But according to the latest state data available, a number of minors are leaving the state for abortions – and that number rose in 2023 compared to previous years. Taylor Goldenstein, who reports on state politics for the Houston Chronicle, said 105 minors 17 or under left Texas for abortions that we know of in 2023.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says the Legislature should amend the language of the state's near-total abortion ban to address confusion over when doctors may terminate pregnancies.

Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."

It marks one of Kennedy’s clearest public statements on abortion since being nominated to lead the nation’s health department.

"I do think that we need to clarify any language so that doctors are not in fear of being penalized if they think the life of the mother is at risk," Patrick said Sunday on WFAA's "Inside Texas Politics" after he was asked whether he expected "any significant abortion legislation,

Patients and doctors have said the ban's only exception is so vague and the penalties are so steep that providers are reluctant to perform emergency abortions.

Amanda Zurawski, who nearly died after being denied an abortion, has been fighting to clarify the medical exception to Texas law for years. For the first time, Republicans might be willing to take up the issue.

Doctors need clearer, better law supporting emergency abortion care for women and girls. Here's how the Legislature can do that.

Texas has outlawed most abortions and forbids sending abortion medication through the mail. That didn’t stop thousands of Texans from finding abortion pills online.

One of the Trump administration’s actions that supporters of abortion rights found most alarming — and that opponents were quick to celebrate — was tucked into an executive order that had nothing to do with abortion at all.