HB257 Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

↑Expands abortion access model confidence 90%

Broadens the medical exceptions to the abortion prohibition to include abortions that are medically indicated, necessary to preserve the patient's physical or mental health or fertility, or requested due to lethal or life-limiting fetal anomalies, and removes the requirement that the procedure be in

in the physician's best medical judgment, the abortion is: (A) medically indicated; (B) necessary to preserve the pregnant patient's life; (C) necessary to preserve the pregnant patient's physical or mental health, including preservation of the patient's fertility; (D) requested because of a lethal fetal anomaly or diagnosis; or (E) requested because of a life-limiting diagnosis that indicates the existence of the fetus outside the womb is incompatible with life without extraordinary medical interventions

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↑Expands abortion access model confidence 80%

Amends the definition of 'pregnant' by striking language that referred to 'a living unborn child' and 'during the entire embryonic and fetal stages of the unborn child's development from fertilization until birth,' which narrows the personhood framing of the statute.

"Pregnant" means the human reproductive condition of having an embryo or fetus develop within the human body.

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↑Expands abortion access model confidence 85%

Repeals Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes (the pre-Roe Texas abortion ban) and removes the heartbeat-based prohibitions in Chapter 171, while expanding exceptions and stating that the changes do not repeal other statutes regulating abortion.

The following provisions are repealed: (1) Sections 170A.001(2) and 170A.002(c), Health and Safety Code; and (2) Chapter 6-1/2, Title 71, Revised Statutes.

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