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TYLER \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed East Texas State Senator Bryan Hughes\u2019 Life of the Mother bill into law on Friday to clarify Texas\u2019 ban on abortion for doctors.<\/p>\nTYLER \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed East Texas State Senator Bryan Hughes\u2019 Life of the Mother bill into law on Friday to clarify Texas\u2019 ban on abortion for doctors.<\/p>\n
According to our news partner KETK, Senate Bill 31, also known as the Life of the Mother Act, clears up language from the abortion ban law that Texas passed in 2022. According to Hughes, the bill is designed to make sure that women having medical emergencies can get an abortion. The bill includes a number of edits and clarifications to the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code and the Texas Health and Safety Code. One change is to the definition of the term \u201clife-threatening\u201d which now includes conditions which may not be actively injuring a patient.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis bill is to look at our pro-life laws and make the language even clearer, so there\u2019s no question, no excuse when a mom presents with a medical emergency, she gets treated,\u201d State Hughes said in March.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the purposes of Subsection (b)(2),\u201dlife-threatening\u201d means capable of causing death or potentially fatal. A life-threatening physical condition is not necessarily one actively injuring the patient,\u201d the text of Senate Bill 31 states.<\/p>\n
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick thanked Hughes in a statement after the bill was unanimously passed by the Texas Senate on April 29.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince 2021, abortions in Texas have essentially ceased,\u201d Patrick said. \u201cAs a Christian and a conservative, I celebrate that tens of thousands of tiny Texans have been saved and that Texas has led the way in protecting life nationwide. SB 31, which is only designed to provide legal clarity for doctors in rare cases when a mother\u2019s life is threatened, is supported by Texas Right to Life, Texas Alliance for Life, and other life groups. I thank Sen. Hughes for his continued passionate defense of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blair Wallace, a policy and advocacy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas also commented on the passage of Senate Bill 31 by the Texas Senate, calling the bill a political stunt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile some legislators supported S.B. 31, hoping to mitigate the harm Texans are facing, this bill wasn\u2019t written with our needs in mind. This bill is a political stunt designed to distract us from the damage the state\u2019s abortion ban continues to cause,\u201d Wallace said on May 21. \u201cPregnancy is too personal and too complex for politicians to legislate. S.B. 31 doesn\u2019t undo the harm of the state\u2019s abortion ban, and it never could. No amount of \u2018clarification\u2019 can fix a fundamentally unjust law. The only real solution is a full repeal of Texas\u2019 abortion ban and a commitment to ensuring reproductive freedom for all Texans \u2014 no exceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Click here to read the full text of Senate Bill 31, which will go into effect as state law on Sept. 1.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TYLER \u2013 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed East Texas State Senator Bryan Hughes\u2019 Life of the Mother bill into law on Friday to clarify Texas\u2019 ban on abortion for doctors. According to our news partner KETK, Senate Bill 31, also known as the Life of the Mother Act, clears up language from the abortion ban … Continue reading Gov. Abbott signs Hughes\u2019 Life of the Mother abortion bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1421359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/2025-06-23_021329-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 21:30:07","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\/2025\/06\/2025-06-23_021329-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421078","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421078"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421735,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421078\/revisions\/1421735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1421359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}