The sweeping proposal — considered the most wide-ranging abortion pill crackdown in the country — passed from the state Senate in a party-line vote Wednesday night, with Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville,

The Texas Senate approved changes Tuesday to the state's strict abortion law that both Republicans and Democrats say would clarify medical exceptions and has drawn support from women who were told they could not end their pregnancies despite life-threatening complications.

The Texas Senate voted to pass a bill clarifying that patients do not have to be at imminent risk to receive an abortion for a life-threatening condition.