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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB2197Relating to the protection of an unborn child's rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 90%
Defines 'individual' to include an unborn child from fertilization, applies homicide and assault laws equally to unborn victims, and repeals exceptions that had permitted certain prenatal homicides, so less legal access to abortion.
"Individual" means a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of development from fertilization until birth.
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-04-22: Withdrawn from schedule
Filed
2025-01-29
Committee
Criminal Jurisprudence
Sponsor
Brent Money R, Andy Hopper R + 13 cosponsors (13 R)
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill expands the legal definition of 'individual' and 'person' to include unborn children from fertilization, applies criminal homicide and assault chapters equally to them, and repeals the specific Penal Code sections that had exempted consensual abortion from those crimes. It also repeals a related civil-liability carve-out. These changes substantively restrict abortion by creating fetal personhood and criminal liability for prenatal homicide.
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