
Culture & Conversation Abortion
This law was last updated on Aug 29, 2019
This law is Anti–Choice
HB 896
Failed to Pass
Jan 17, 2019
Co-sponsors: 3
Primary Sponsors: 3
Total Sponsors: 6
HB 896 would prohibit all abortion in Texas, even for pregnancies that result from rape or incest, or those with severe genetic anomalies.
Fetal Homicide
The bill would remove the exception for abortion from the definition of homicide in the state’s penal code. If passed, all parties involved in an abortion (physicians, nurses, the pregnant patient, etc.) may face murder charges.
Homicide charges would apply to the death of an “unborn child,” even if the conduct charged is:
Personhood
The bill provides that “a living human child, from the moment of fertilization on fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum, is entitled to the same rights, powers, and privileges as are secured or granted by the laws of this state to any other human child.”
Abortion Prohibition Enforcement
The bill would direct the attorney general to direct state agencies to enforce the law regardless of any contrary or conflicting federal law, executive order, or court decision. The bill would instruct local governments to do the same.
Related Legislation
Nearly identical to HB 948, which failed to pass in 2017.
Latest Action
1/17/19 – Introduced.
Co-sponsor
Primary Sponsor