Texas House approves new abortion restrictions

AUSTIN (Texas Tribune) — GOP House lawmakers took a sweeping approach to anti-abortion legislation on Friday, preliminarily passing a measure that would ban the most common form of second-trimester procedure and change how health care providers dispose of fetal remains.
Under the broad strokes of Senate Bill 8, abortion providers would have to bury or cremate fetal remains following an elective abortion and they would be banned from donating aborted fetal tissue to medical resear