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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jim Vertuno

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

Austin American-Statesman

A Texas medical panel on Friday approved guidance for doctors working under one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans but refused to list specific exceptions to the law, which doctors have complained is dangerously unclear.

The decision by the Texas Medical Board came less than a month after the state Supreme Court upheld the law that had been challenged by doctors and a group of women who argued it stopped them from getting medical care even when their pregnancies became dangerous.

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