No exceptions coming for Texas abortion ban, both parties say

AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- With just 21 days left to pass House bills out of committee, there is no sign in the Texas legislature that any changes are coming to the state's strict abortion ban.On Monday morning, lawmakers who authored the legislation that made providing abortion a felony stood with activists to denounce any possible changes to the law."The origin of the conception is not what determines the value of life," State Sen. Angela Paxton said. "I am the result of an unplanned pregnancy."Rep.