Texas § HS.171.202 - LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS
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§ HS.171.202. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS
LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The legislature finds, according to contemporary medical research, that: (1) fetal heartbeat has become a key medical predictor that an unborn child will reach live birth; (2) cardiac activity begins at a biologically identifiable moment in time, normally when the fetal heart is formed in the gestational sac; (3) Texas has compelling interests from the outset of a woman's pregnancy in protecting the health of the woman and the life of the unborn child; and (4) to make an informed choice about whether to continue her pregnancy, the pregnant woman has a compelling interest in knowing the likelihood of her unborn child surviving to full-term birth based on the presence of cardiac activity. Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 62 (S.B. 8 ), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2021.
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