Anti-Abortion Bill Officially Advanced by House
Update: The Texas House officially passed HB2 in a 96-49 vote this morning. San Antonio Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon offered an amendment that would assist children, born as a result of unintended...
View ArticleStand With Texas Women at San Antonio’s Sunset Station
Since Senator Wendy Davis’ filibuster of the anti-abortion bill at the Texas State Capitol in Austin almost 3 weeks ago, the Stand with Texas Women campaign has morphed into a household topic...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Activists Laud Closure of Three Texas Planned Parenthood Centers
After drastic budget cuts during the 2011 Legislative session, compounded with its exclusion from the Women’s Health Program, three Planned Parenthood clinics in rural Southeast Texas are slated to...
View ArticleReproductive Rights Groups File Suit Against Anti-Abortion Law
Update: According to the Center for Reproductive Rights, a trial date and time for the lawsuit against House Bill 2 has been set for Monday, Oct. 21 at 9 a.m. CT. The lawsuit was filed in the Western...
View ArticleLawsuit Against Texas Anti-Abortion Law Begins
The legal battle to defeat sections of Texas’ anti-abortion law starts today. A federal court judge in Austin will hear arguments lodged by a coalition of reproductive rights groups who say the...
View ArticleJudge Blocks Part Of Texas Anti-Abortion Law
Update: As expected, Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed an appeal to counter today’s federal court ruling that found one section of Texas’ anti-abortion law unconstitutional. Abbott signaled the...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons Why It’s Terrifying To Be A Woman In Texas
This Halloween, no need to dress up if you’re a woman living in Texas. With unprecedented, sweeping abortion restrictions, massive funding cuts to family planning and the dismantling of the women’s...
View ArticlePart of Anti-Abortion Law Ruled ‘Unconstitutional’ Reinstated By Appeals Court
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a federal judge’s ruling that deemed a section of Texas’ anti-abortion law ‘unconstitutional.’ Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel said a...
View ArticleTexas Anti-Abortion Lawsuit Heads To U.S. Supreme Court
This morning, the coalition of reproductive health groups fighting against Texas’ anti-abortion law filed to appeal their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The emergency application asks the Supreme...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Allows Texas Anti-Abortion Law To Stand
A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to halt a part of Texas’ newly enacted abortion-restrictive law, effectively keeping the current rules intact. On Nov. 4, the coalition of...
View ArticleFifth Circuit Panel ‘Skeptical’ Of Texas Abortion Law’s Negative Impact
No abortion access in the Rio Grande Valley? No huge deal, a federal three-judge panel basically retorted this morning. During a hearing that challenges Texas’ abortion law before the U.S. Fifth...
View ArticleAfter ‘Achievements’ Of Texas Women’s Health Programs Noted, Let’s Count The...
During a Senate Health Committee hearing at the Capitol yesterday (made available via livestream) that partially focused on the progress of women’s health in Texas, a leading Republican overshadowed...
View ArticleFifth Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Texas Abortion Law
Update: Plaintiffs in the case challenging Texas’ abortion restrictive law are asking the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision to uphold the legislation. The groups— Planned Parenthood, the ACLU,...
View ArticleSecond Lawsuit Against Texas Abortion Law To Be Filed
Update: On a conference call earlier today, plaintiffs of the second lawsuit challenging parts of Texas’ abortion restrictive law expressed their deep concern for women of the state suffering as a...
View ArticleHB2: New study shows abortions decreased 13 percent in Texas
A study released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project determined that there was a 13-percent decline in the Texas abortion rate after the passing of House Bill 2, which restricts medical abortion,...
View ArticleStrict Texas Abortion Law Back in Court This Week
Arguments began today in the second lawsuit filed against Texas House Bill 2, the restrictive abortion bill passed last summer that has so far led to the shuttering of 20 of Texas’ 41 abortion clinics....
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