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Podcast: Progress Texas Podcasts
Episode: Happy Hour 201: Clarifying The Abortion Clarification Bills with Rep. Donna Howard
Description: Two bills are making their way through the Texas Legislature right now that are ostensibly designed to offer doctors legal protection against prosecution under our state's near-blanket ban on abortion, in cases where that procedure is medically necessary - the same clarification that was sought, unsuccessfully, in the Zurawski v Texas case. The bills, according to their Republican backers, have achieved unanimous support in both the House and Senate - but there is no shortage of opposition among abortion rights groups and advocates, some of whom are concerned that the language in the bills may allow for expansion of...