{"id":1015785,"date":"2021-05-19T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1015785"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T15:55:10","slug":"abbott-signs-heartbeat-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1015785","title":{"rendered":"Abbott signs Heartbeat Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/index-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1013306\" \/>AUSTIN &#8212; The Texas Heartbeat Act, authored by GOP Senator Bryan Hughes of Mineola, has been signed into law by Governor Abbott. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK. Senate Bill 8 achieved final passage last Thursday in an 18-12 vote. Pending any litigation, the still-controversial bill would abolish elective abortions as early as six weeks.  Texas Right to Life says that&#8217;s when the preborn child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heartbeat is detectable using methods according to standard medical practice. The policy would take effect September 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; The Texas Heartbeat Act, authored by GOP Senator Bryan Hughes of Mineola, has been signed into law by Governor Abbott. That&#8217;s according to our news partner KETK. Senate Bill 8 achieved final passage last Thursday in an 18-12 vote. Pending any litigation, the still-controversial bill would abolish elective abortions as early as six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1015785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abbott signs Heartbeat Act<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1015789,"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-6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Abbott signs Heartbeat Act","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015785","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 18:17:39","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-6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Abbott signs Heartbeat Act","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015785","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=1015785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015987,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015785\/revisions\/1015987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1015789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}