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It has been in controversy as it bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy as per the medical experts (Act has not specified the weeks).<\/li>\n<li>The Heartbeat Act provides that any physician planning to perform an abortion has to check whether the unborn child has a detectable heartbeat. Then if a fetal heartbeat has been detected by the physician, the physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman.<\/li>\n<li>In cases of medical emergencies, an exception has been provided under the Act. However, it will be the decision of the physician to determine what qualifies.<\/li>\n<li>A civil liability for violation or aiding or abetting violation can be raised by private citizens. Any person, other than an officer or employee of a state or local governmental entity in this state, may bring a civil action against any person who:<\/li>\n<li>performs or induces an abortion in violation;<\/li>\n<li>knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>The private citizens can be awarded injunctive relief to prevent the defendant from breaking the law and statutory damages for about $10,000 for each abortion, as well as costs and attorney\u2019s fees through the law suit.<\/li>\n<li>The lawsuit must be filed within four years of the abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">*Tanvi Singh, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the United States Supreme Court declined the request of urgent stay of Heartbeat Act, 2021, the New Abortion Law comes into <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":253621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[8281,46909,35935,41166,30735],"class_list":["post-253619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","category-legislationupdates","tag-abortion","tag-heartbeat","tag-texas","tag-unborn-child","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - 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