'The exceptions in the bill are so narrow, and the penalties for violating the Texas ban are so high, that invariably,' said one legal expert, 'a lot of doctors are going to continue not to offer abortion in those situations because they don't want to get in trouble.'
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Under the new so-called "exceptions," healthcare providers in Texas could ostensibly avoid up to $100,000 in fines or a life sentence in prison if they provided abortion care in these instances, despite the state law that bans abortion in all cases, including pregnancies that result from rape or incest, at six weeks gestation.
But legal experts and abortion rights advocates say that like exceptions that already exist in many of the abortion bans and restrictions that have been passed in at least 22 states since
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