Tex. Health & Safety Code § 245.002 · Chapter 245. ABORTION FACILITIES
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Abortion" means the act of using or prescribing an instrument, a drug, a medicine, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to cause the death of an unborn child of a woman known to be pregnant. The term does not include birth control devices or oral contraceptives. An act is not an abortion if the act is done with the intent to:
(A) save the life or preserve the health of an unborn child;
(B) remove a dead, unborn child whose death was caused by spontaneous abortion; or
(C) remove an ectopic pregnancy.
(2) "Abortion facility" means a place where abortions are performed.
(3) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 3.1639(62), eff. April 2, 2015.
(4) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(4-a) "Ectopic pregnancy" means the implantation of a fertilized egg or embryo:
(A) outside of the uterus; or
(B) in an abnormal location in the uterus, or in a scarred portion of the uterus, causing the pregnancy to be non-viable.
(4-b) "Executive commissioner" means the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission.
(5) "Patient" means a female on whom an abortion is performed, but does not include a fetus.
(6) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, or association.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0685, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1639(62), eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 441 (S.B. 8), Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2017.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 758 (S.B. 31), Sec. 9, eff. June 20, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.245.htm
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Cited by 15 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Health & Safety Code § 245.002. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Family Code
- Tex. Fam. Code § 33.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Fam. Code § 151.002RIGHTS OF A LIVING CHILD AFTER AN ABORTION OR PREMATURE BIRTH; CIVIL PENALTY; CRIMINAL OFFENSE.Printed as Section 245.002, Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Fam. Code § 161.006TERMINATION AFTER ABORTION.Printed as Section 245.002, Health and Safety Code
Government Code
Health and Safety Code
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 32.046POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION STRATEGIC PLAN.Printed as Section 245.002(1)
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 54.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 170.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 170A.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 170A.0022REASONABLE MEDICAL JUDGMENT.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171.002DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171.061DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171.063PROVISION OF ABORTION-INDUCING DRUG.Printed as Section 245.002
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171A.001DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 245.002
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