Dallas Morning News By Alex Briseno 5/25/2021
Texas lawmakers continued the push to restrict abortion on Tuesday after giving final approval to a bill that would ban abortion in the state if the Supreme Court ever overturns Roe v. Wade. Less than one week after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a near-complete ban on abortion in the state, the Texas Senate gave final approval to a bill known as a “trigger” ban, which would prohibit abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
The bill didn’t generate any debate on second or third reading, though the Tuesday night vote was expected since the Republican-controlled Senate already took action on its version of the legislation as a part of the early seven-bill package it sent out of the chamber in March. It now heads to Abbott for his signature.
The House’s bill came from Southlake Republican Rep. Giovanni Capriglione and was carried by Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, who authored the Senate’s “trigger” bill. In addition to banning abortion if and to the extent that Roe is overturned, the measure would make it a second-degree felony to perform or attempt to perform an abortion.
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