Texas abortion law

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said he would do everything possible to defend the availability of the abortion medication.

Connecticut is one of 17 states that brought the case to protect the abortion medication after conflicting court rulings over its legality.

A lawsuit filed in Texas challenges the FDA approval of medications used to terminate a pregnancy. The judge has been asked to halt access to one drug nationwide.

A Texas lawsuit with a key deadline this month is posing a threat to the nationwide availability of medication abortion, which now accounts for the majority of abortions in the U.S.

The Texas Medical Association, which represents doctors, says pregnant people at some hospitals in the state have not received swift, proper care for dangerous pregnancy complications. The group has asked the state’s medical board to investigate the state’s 6-week abortion ban and its effects on care in hospitals. Reporter Allie Morris from the Dallas Morning News joins LX News to...

A Texas district attorney says he will ask a judge to dismiss a murder charge against a woman over a self-induced abortion.

Authorities say a 26-year-old woman has been charged with murder in Texas after causing “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion.”