Journal article : Comment
The unethical Texas heartbeat law
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What is already known?
- The Texas Heartbeat Act, which has been in effect since September 2021, prohibits abortions once a ‘fetal heartbeat’ is detected, except in emergency situations.
- The law significantly limits access to abortion services in Texas, by essentially prohibiting abortions post 6 weeks' gestation.
- The law has been subjected to several legal challenges, none of which have been successful to date.
What does this article add?
- This article provides an overview of some of the ethical concerns the law raises and identifies some of the problems the law creates for women, the health profession and society. The article ultimately argues that the law ought to be quashed.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1002/pd.6136
Authors
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Prenatal Diagnosis More from this journal
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 535-541
- Publication date:
- 2022-04-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-03-24
- DOI:
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1097-0223
- ISSN:
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0197-3851
- Language:
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English
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- Subtype:
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Comment
- Pubs id:
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1248863
- Local pid:
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pubs:1248863
- Deposit date:
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2022-03-30
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Haining et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2022
- Rights statement:
- © 2022 The Authors. Prenatal Diagnosis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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