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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
SB350Relating to prioritization of a pregnant individual's health when providing health care treatments; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 70%
Requires physicians to prioritize the pregnant person's health over the fetus when recommending treatment, even if it risks fetal injury or death, which reduces the legal weight given to fetal interests relative to existing Texas law that treats the fetus as having independent interests in many care
a physician or health care practitioner shall prioritize the health of a pregnant individual over the health of the fetus the individual is carrying when recommending a health care treatment for the individual, regardless of whether the treatment poses a risk of injury or death to the fetus.
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AbortionexceptionsAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 60%
Mandates that a pregnant person's health must be prioritized over the fetus in all health care treatment recommendations, creating a broad health exception that applies regardless of gestational stage or specific abortion context.
Notwithstanding any other law, a physician or health care practitioner shall prioritize the health of a pregnant individual over the health of the fetus the individual is carrying when recommending a health care treatment for the individual, regardless of whether the treatment poses a risk of injury or death to the fetus.
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-02-03: Referred to Health & Human Services
Filed
2024-11-13
Committee
Health & Human Services
Sponsor
Sarah Eckhardt D, Carol Alvarado D, Molly Cook D, Roland Gutierrez D, Jose Menendez D
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds a new section to Chapter 170A (Texas's abortion-related statutes) that explicitly requires prioritizing the pregnant individual's health over the fetus in treatment decisions and imposes penalties for violations. This directly engages abortion policy by altering the balance between maternal and fetal interests in medical care, including scenarios that could involve abortion or life-saving interventions. It is coded under personhood-ivf because it diminishes the independent status of the fetus in health care decisions (consistent with the fetal-personhood rule for any provision re
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