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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
SB360Relating to an advance directive and do-not-resuscitate order of a pregnant woman and information provided for an advance directive.
Direction
Abortionpersonhood ivfAI label
↑Expands abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Removes the provision that an advance directive or DNR has no effect if the woman is pregnant, allowing a pregnant woman to specify that life-sustaining treatment be withheld even during pregnancy, so greater ability to forgo treatment that would sustain the fetus.
[deleted: I understand that under Texas law this directive has no effect if I have been diagnosed as pregnant.]
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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, Molly Cook D, Roland Gutierrez D, Jose Menendez D
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill removes existing Texas law that automatically overrides a pregnant woman's advance directive or DNR order to require life-sustaining treatment, instead allowing her to specify the effect of pregnancy (including directing withholding of treatment). This changes the prior fetal-protection rule that treated pregnancy as automatically requiring continued treatment to sustain the fetus, thereby expanding abortion-related personhood axis by reducing legal recognition of the fetus overriding the woman's directive.
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