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After Years of Silence, Texas Medical Board Issues Training for Doctors on How to Legally Provide Abortions

· By Cassandra Jaramillo, Kavitha Surana, and Lizzie Presser
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For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening.

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