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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Health and Safety Code § 171.016: INFORMATION RELATING TO CHARACTERISTICS OF UNBORN CHILD.

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  1. HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
  2. TITLE 2. HEALTH
  3. SUBTITLE H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS
  4. CHAPTER 171. ABORTION
  5. SUBCHAPTER B. INFORMED CONSENT

(a) The informational materials must include materials designed to inform the woman of the probable anatomical and physiological characteristics of the unborn child at two-week gestational increments from the time when a woman can be known to be pregnant to full term, including any relevant information on the possibility of the unborn child's survival.

(b) The materials must include color pictures representing the development of the child at two-week gestational increments. The pictures must contain the dimensions of the unborn child and must be realistic.

(c) The materials provided under this section must be objective and nonjudgmental and be designed to convey only accurate scientific information about the unborn child at the various gestational ages.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 999, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:17Z. Source file · JSON

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