For at least three more weeks, the public can offer input on what the final guidelines for an emergency abortion in Texas should include.
DALLAS — The Texas Medical Board is trying to do what state lawmakers did not by setting guidelines for what constitutes an emergency abortion in Texas and one legislator is urging doctors and women to participate.
“They have a proposal in place, the public has 30 days to comment on it and then they will make the final rule on how they are going to address the medical exceptions to abortion,” said state Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, a member of the Public Health Committee in the Texas House of Representatives.
The Texas Medical Board met earlier this month to debate potential guidelines but left more questions than answers, Collier said.
“They could have provided more clarity because they have done that in the past. They …
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