Texas lawmakers approve abortion restrictions

Published 9:01 am Monday, June 24, 2013

Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, stands at the podium where she has hung a hanger from the microphone on the House floor as she attempts to add an amendment to create an exception for victims of rape and incest in Senate Bill 5 during debate at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 23, 2013. If passed, the bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks, require that they take place in surgical centers, and restrict where and when women can take abortion-inducing pills_and force 37 out of 42 abortion clinics in Texas to close and undergo millions of dollars in upgrades. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Rodolfo Gonzalez)