Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171.204 : Health and Safety Code — Health — Public Health Provisions — Abortion — Detection of Fetal Heartbeat — Prohibited Abortion of Unborn Child With Detectable Fetal Heartbeat; Effect

(a) Except as provided by Section 171.205, a physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman if the physician detected a fetal heartbeat for the unborn child as required by Section 171.203 or failed to perform a test to detect a fetal heartbeat.
(b) A physician does not violate this section if the physician performed a test for a fetal heartbeat as required by Section 171.203 and did not detect a fetal heartbeat.
(c) This section does not affect:
(1) the provisions of this chapter that restrict or regulate an abortion by a particular method or during a particular stage of pregnancy; or
(2) any other provision of state law that regulates or prohibits abortion.

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 171.204

Added by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 62,Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/2021.
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