Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. art. 4512.4 · Chapter 6-1/2. ABORTION
MURDER IN PRODUCING ABORTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The following article was held to have been impliedly repealed in McCorvey v. Hill, 385 F.3d 846 (5th Cir. 2004).
In Section 2, Chapter 62 (S.B. 8), and Section 4, Chapter 800 (H.B. 1280), Acts of the 87th Legislature, Regular Session, 2021, the legislature finds that the state statutes enacted before the ruling in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), that prohibit and criminalize abortion unless the mother's life is in danger, have not been repealed by the legislature, either expressly or by implication.
If the death of the mother is occasioned by an abortion so produced or by an attempt to effect the same it is murder.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1925, 39th Leg., R.S., S.B. 7, eff. September 1, 1925. Transferred from Art. 1194, Penal Code of Texas, 1925, by Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 399 (S.B. 34), pg. 996e, eff. January 1, 1974.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CV/htm/CV.71.6-1_2.htm
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