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Texas House Advances Anti-Abortion Bill

Legislation aimed at curtailing mail-order abortions in Texas cleared a decisive hurdle, part of a broader push by abortion opponents to limit the procedure even in states where it is legal.

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Texas lawmakers on the floor of the House chamber in Austin earlier this month
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Woman Claims Marine Laced Her Drink With Abortion Pills

A Texas woman said in a lawsuit that a U.S. Marine got her pregnant and then, after she chose to keep the pregnancy, dissolved abortion pills in her hot chocolate.

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Medical abortion pills. A wrongful-death lawsuit filed by Liana Davis claims that Christopher Cooprider dosed her with 10 abortion pills after she rebuffed his requests to end her pregnancy.
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