Fri Sep 1, 2023 – 4:48 pm EDTFri Sep 1, 2023 – 5:10 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Three new Texas laws to protect the sanctity of life took effect at the start of the new month Friday, including a long-awaited change to a controversial euthanasia law.
Texas Right to Life shares that, starting September 1, the Lone Star State will begin to enforce SB 412, which forbids academic institutions from restricting the academic options of a student on the basis of being pregnant or parenting and requires them to make “reasonable accommodations” for a student to care for her child; and SB 459, which gives pregnant or parenting students priority status for early class registration. Both bills were the work of Republican state Sen. Angela Paxton.
But the third bill to take effect is arguably the most significant. For years, controversy has surrounded language in the 1999 Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA), which states that if a doctor gives notification of his refusal to further treat a patient, gets approval from a committee, and no other doctor agrees to take in or help the patient, then the hospital is only obligated to provide up to 10
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