{"id":1009815,"date":"2021-05-06T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1009815"},"modified":"2021-05-07T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:25:00","slug":"texas-republicans-pushing-abortion-ban-after-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1009815","title":{"rendered":"Hughes’s “heartbeat bill” moves closer to passage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heartbeat bill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sponsored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, cleared another hurdle on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, it passed its third reading in the Texas House by a vote of 83 to 64. The bill, which the Texas Senate previously passed, will go back to the Senate for possible amendments. It then will be presented to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has indicated he will sign it into law. If it becomes law, Texas will ban abortions as early six weeks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d before some women know they are pregnant \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and allow people to sue doctors and others who perform such restricted abortions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN (AP\/Staff) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heartbeat bill\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sponsored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, cleared another hurdle on Thursday. According to our news partner KETK, it passed its third reading in the Texas House by a vote of 83 to 64. The bill, which the Texas Senate previously passed, will go back to the Senate for … Continue reading Hughes’s “heartbeat bill” moves closer to passage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1009834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/index.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Republicans pushing abortion ban after 6 weeks","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 20:51:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/index.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Texas Republicans pushing abortion ban after 6 weeks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010119,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009815\/revisions\/1010119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}