Texas lawmakers are considering a bipartisan bill to clarify the state's abortion ban. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)
"This is not someone who is six weeks and driving to Planned Parenthood because they don’t want their baby," Catholic Conference of Bishops executive director Jennifer Alman said, according to FOX 4.
"This is a woman who very much wants her baby at 20 weeks and having a medical emergency where she has lost her child," Alman continued. "Even if it’s not fully dead yet, her child is in the act of dying and the only way she can survive to parent her other children is to accept that death, protect her life and that is what the bill seeks to strike a balance of."
The legislation, also called the Life of the Mother Act in both chambers, has brought together major pro-life groups, doctors, hospitals, Republicans and Democrats, said GOP Rep. Charlie Green, who authored the House version.
"We know women’s bodies have been horribly injured because doctors and hospitals are afraid to provide abortions that could save their bodies," Green said, according to FOX 4. "That’s because some of the language in our current law is not clear to doctors and hospitals."
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The Texas House Public Health Committee heard testimony on Monday regarding House Bill 44. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
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Rep. Ann Johnson, a Democrat, said: "This bill does not include fetal abnormality. It does not include rape. But it does include a bipartisan approach to try to address the challenges."
"I heard you guys say not sick enough. This bill does an important thing that does say you do not delay treatment. This bill does try to address that delay in time," she continued.
The legislation appears to have enough support for approval.
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