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"What is black and white are the exceptions," says Dr. Sherif Zaafran.
"What is gray is the medical judgment."
Zaafran is president of the Texas Medical Board, which on Friday approved new rules for doctors working under a state abortion ban that the state Supreme Court upheld last month, the New York Times reports.
The rules, which will take effect Aug.
1, will require doctors working under the ban to submit documentation to the state within seven days about why they provided an emergency or medically necessary abortion.
Previously, doctors had to do that before intervening, even during medical emergencies.
The new rules also eliminate a provision that said doctors should document whether they tried to transfer a patient to avoid performing an abortion.
And it echoed the state Supreme Court's ruling that a doctor does not have to wait until there is a medical emergency to perform an abortion to save the life or protect the health of the mother.
Texas law prohibits abortions except when a pregnant patient has a life-threatening condition.
A doctor convicted of providing an illegal abortion in Texas can face up to 99 years in prison, a $100,000 fine, and lose their medical license.
The medical board can take away the license of a doctor found to have performed an illegal abortion, and its findings could
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