Amanda Zurawski, who nearly died after being denied an abortion, has been fighting to clarify the medical exception to Texas law for years. For the first time, Republicans might be willing to take up the issue.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has long been a leading conservative voice in Texas. The stalwart Republican says he doesn’t yet know if Burrows will impact his hopes for a conservative agenda, but he expressed concern.

AUSTIN – Shortly after Lubbock Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows was elected Texas House speaker, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick questioned the legitimacy of his victory and issued a legislative challenge. Perhaps it was a threat. Pass conservative measures or else, Patrick suggested in a social media post and news release.

Now in his third term after having served eight years as a Republican member of the Senate, Patrick has taken that ... adding restrictions on abortion while Roe v. Wade was in effect and enacting ...

Although the 2024 elections largely focused on abortion and school vouchers, those issues are not top concerns for most voters, according to new poll.

The Texas Legislature may clarify for medical professionals when it’s legal to perform a life-saving abortion, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said this week. “We need to clarify any language so that doctors are not in fear of being penalized if they think the life of the mother’s at risk,

Patrick on Sunday said the Legislature should amend the language of the state’s near-total abortion ban to address confusion over when doctors may terminate pregnancies.

Texas doctors have said for years that the state's abortion ban is vague and unclear. Could the legislature fix that?

Dan Patrick, the Senate's president and agenda ... incest and fatal fetal diagnoses to Texas' abortion law died without legislative committee hearings in 2023, Democrats and abortion rights ...

Dan Patrick, expects a relatively run-of-the-mill ... in which pregnant Texas women have died since the state’s strict abortion ban went into effect in 2022, despite an exception for life ...