Hello!! I’m here at the Texas Medical Board meeting where they’ll discuss what might count as a medical exception to the state’s abortion laws for Texas Tribune later today.

It’s one of the last agenda items, so follow me + Maria Crane along for updates —>

On Friday, the Texas Medical Board will propose guidance to doctors on how to interpret the state’s new abortion laws. There will then be 30 days for public comment on the proposed language.

I’m out this week but follow my trusty colleague Neelam Bohra for the latest.

The Texas Medical Board will consider issuing guidance to doctors on how to interpret the medical exception to the state’s abortion bans, per an agency agenda

Follow Texas Tribune for the latest

texastribune.org/2024/03/14/tex…

UT Tyler Health Science Center partnered with private equity to buy a health care system.

Do their doctors qualify for governmental immunity?

One man’s delayed cancer diagnosis has opened a legal wormhole in Texas’s medical malpractice system

texastribune.org/2024/02/23/uni…

It’s never a good sign when you ask legal experts to opine on something Texas is doing and they all end up talking about the lead up to the Civil War.

My latest with William Melhado

texastribune.org/2024/02/09/tex…

Texas’ Civil Medicaid Fraud unit built a national reputation for taking on Big Pharma - and winning.

Under AG Ken Paxton, the unit has seen a mass exodus of top tier legal talent and taken on some eyebrow-raising cases

via Vianna Davila

texastribune.org/2024/01/31/ken…

The Bidens have invited Kate Cox, a TX mom who sued to terminate her non-viable pregnancy, to the State of the Union, per NBC News

Cox’s lawsuit was the first of its kind since Texas banned nearly all abortions.

It’s been a rought first 24 days of 2024 for the media industry. One bright spot: We at Texas Tribune Guild are unionizing!

We want to build a better, stronger, more equitable news organization. For the good of the Tribune, for the good of Texas.

NEW: After a yearslong fight, Texas moms will be able to stay on Medicaid for a full year after giving birth.

The feds have approved Texas’ application to extend postpartum Medicaid to 12 months, according to emails obtained by Texas Tribune

Follow Karen Brooks Harper for more

I’ve seen confusion about the EMTALA ruling, so

TX law says *a doctor CAN* perform lifesaving abortions

Feds said *hospitals MUST* perform lifesaving abortions

5th Circuit said HHS couldn’t require this of hospitals. They didn’t touch the medical exceptions for doctors.

one of my low-stakes new years resolutions was to stop naming google docs vague things like “mifepristone update” and “scotx ruling”

I made it to 4:10pm on january 2nd.

NEW: 5th Circuit sides with Texas, says Biden admin overstepped in telling hospitals they were obligated to perform life-saving abortions under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.

Background: texastribune.org/2023/11/07/tex…

Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

My family thinks I spent Christmas with them but mentally I was entirely focused on this very dated meme.

“Only you have the power to clarify Texas’ abortion laws!”

ICYMI: texastribune.org/2023/12/21/tex…

How Caroline Klibanoff and I tell our parents we’re both coming home for the holidays:

Sen. Senator John Cornyn, a former Supreme Court of Texas justice himself, on Kate Cox: