Texas Health And Safety Code Title 2, Chapter 171 - Abortion

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 171.001 - Short Title
  This chapter may be called the Woman's Right to Know Act. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 999, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
• Texas Section 171.002 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Abortion" means the use of any means to terminate the pregnancy of a female known by the attending physician to be...
• Texas Section 171.003 - Physician To Perform
  An abortion may be performed only by a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 999, Sec. 1, eff....
• Texas Section 171.0031 - Requirements Of Physician; Offense
  (a) A physician performing or inducing an abortion: (1) must, on the date the abortion is performed or induced, have active admitting privileges at a...
• Texas Section 171.004 - Abortion Of Fetus Age 16 Weeks Or More
  An abortion of a fetus age 16 weeks or more may be performed only at an ambulatory surgical center or hospital licensed to perform the...

SUBCHAPTER B INFORMED CONSENT

• Texas Section 171.005 - Department To Enforce
  The department shall enforce this chapter. Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 999, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
• Texas Section 171.011 - Informed Consent Required
  A person may not perform an abortion without the voluntary and informed consent of the woman on whom the abortion is to be performed. Acts...
• Texas Section 171.012 - Voluntary And Informed Consent
  (a) Consent to an abortion is voluntary and informed only if: (1) the physician who is to perform the abortion informs the pregnant woman on...
• Texas Section 171.0121 - Medical Record
  (a) Before the abortion begins, a copy of the signed, written certification received by the physician under Section 171.012(a)(6) must be placed in the pregnant...
• Texas Section 171.0122 - Viewing Printed Materials And Sonogram Image; Hearing Heart Auscultation Or Verbal Explanation
  (a) A pregnant woman may choose not to view the printed materials provided under Section 171.012(a)(3) after she has been provided the materials. (b) A...
• Texas Section 171.0123 - Paternity And Child Support Information
  If, after being provided with a sonogram and the information required under this subchapter, the pregnant woman chooses not to have an abortion, the physician...
• Texas Section 171.0124 - Exception For Medical Emergency
  A physician may perform an abortion without obtaining informed consent under this subchapter in a medical emergency. A physician who performs an abortion in a...
• Texas Section 171.013 - Distribution Of State Materials
  (a) The physician or the physician's agent shall furnish copies of the materials described by Section 171.014 to the pregnant woman at least 24 hours...
• Texas Section 171.014 - Informational Materials
  (a) The department shall publish informational materials that include: (1) the information required to be provided under Sections 171.012(a)(1)(B) and (D) and (a)(2)(A), (B), and...
• Texas Section 171.015 - Information Relating To Public And Private Agencies
  The informational materials must include: (1) geographically indexed materials designed to inform the pregnant woman of public and private agencies and services that: (A) are...
• Texas Section 171.016 - Information Relating To Characteristics Of Unborn Child
  (a) The informational materials must include materials designed to inform the woman of the probable anatomical and physiological characteristics of the unborn child at two-week...
• Texas Section 171.017 - Periods Run Concurrently
  If the woman is an unemancipated minor subject to Chapter 33, Family Code, the 24-hour periods established under Sections 171.012(b) and 171.013(a) may run concurrently...

SUBCHAPTER C ABORTION PROHIBITED AT OR AFTER 20 WEEKS POST-FERTILIZATION

• Texas Section 171.018 - Offense
  A physician who intentionally performs an abortion on a woman in violation of this subchapter commits an offense. An offense under this section is a...
• Texas Section 171.041 - Short Title
  This subchapter may be cited as the Preborn Pain Act. Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3, eff. October 29,
• Texas Section 171.042 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Post-fertilization age" means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human...
• Texas Section 171.043 - Determination Of Post-fertilization Age Required
  Except as otherwise provided by Section 171.046, a physician may not perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion without, prior to...
• Texas Section 171.044 - Abortion Of Unborn Child Of 20 Or More Weeks Post-fertilization Age Prohibited
  Except as otherwise provided by Section 171.046, a person may not perform or induce or attempt to perform or induce an abortion on a woman...
• Texas Section 171.045 - Method Of Abortion
  (a) This section applies only to an abortion authorized under Section 171.046(a)(1) or (2) in which: (1) the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child...
• Texas Section 171.046 - Exceptions
  (a) The prohibitions and requirements under Sections 171.043, 171.044, and 171.045(b) do not apply to an abortion performed if there exists a condition that, in...
• Texas Section 171.047 - Protection Of Privacy In Court Proceedings
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, in a civil or criminal proceeding or action involving an act prohibited under this subchapter, the identity...

SUBCHAPTER D ABORTION-INDUCING DRUGS

• Texas Section 171.048 - Construction Of Subchapter
  (a) This subchapter shall be construed, as a matter of state law, to be enforceable up to but no further than the maximum possible extent...
• Texas Section 171.061 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Abortion" means the act of using, administering, prescribing, or otherwise providing an instrument, a drug, a medicine, or any other substance,...
• Texas Section 171.062 - Enforcement By Texas Medical Board
  Notwithstanding Section 171.005, the Texas Medical Board shall enforce this subchapter. Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3, eff. October...
• Texas Section 171.063 - Distribution Of Abortion-inducing Drug
  (a) A person may not knowingly give, sell, dispense, administer, provide, or prescribe an abortion-inducing drug to a pregnant woman for the purpose of inducing...

SUBCHAPTER E EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS ON TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS FOR CERTAIN FACILITY PERSONNEL

• Texas Section 171.064 - Administrative Penalty
  (a) The Texas Medical Board may take disciplinary action under Chapter 164, Occupations Code, or assess an administrative penalty under Subchapter A, Chapter 165, Occupations...
• Texas Section 171.081 - Applicability
  This subchapter applies to each person who: (1) is employed by, volunteers at, or performs services under contract with: (A) an abortion facility licensed under...
• Texas Section 171.082 - Education And Training Programs On Trafficking Of Persons
  (a) The executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission by rule shall require a person described by Section 171.081 to complete within a...

Last modified: September 28, 2016