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A Texas Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment stopping future abortion restrictions. Voters would have to approve it — but Republican lawmakers aren’t likely to put it in front of them.

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Texas, the largest state to restrict abortions, now has three significant bans on the books, setting up a potential legal minefield.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had said hospitals in states with abortion bans must perform emergency abortions in some instances.

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Experts on adoption and abortion say lawmakers must work to provide financial and mental health support to birth parents, adoptive parents and adoptees in order to make the adoption process a better option for those with unwanted pregnancies.

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Under Texas' "trigger law," doctors who perform abortions after Roe v. Wade is overturned would face up to life in prison.

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