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  The Truth Behind Pleasant Grove's New Anti-Abortion Billboard

  July 30 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas' shiny, new anti-abortion billboard isn't from one of the usual suspects. It's not paid for by Texas Right to Life or the Texas Alliance for Life, Texas politics' twin anti-choice behemoths. Instead, the billboard, which reads "Abortion is not healthcare. It hurts women and murders their babies," is the...

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  As Fetal Burial Trial Ends, Judge Warns State of Unintended Consequences

  July 23 at 1:35 p.m.

  The latest trial in Texas' ongoing battle against women's personal autonomy wound down Friday afternoon, with the state arguing that it's in Texas' best interest that all tissue obtained from abortions and miscarriages in the state be cremated and buried. After a week of testimony, U.S. District Judge David Ezra...

• Ken Paxton Thinks Women Will Travel to Texas Just for the Abortions

  July 9 at 4 a.m.

  Despite finding himself in the midst of an unprecedented run of good fortune, Ken Paxton, Texas' still-indicted attorney general, insists on making trouble for himself. If there's litigation to be filed or glommed onto related to conservatives' pet causes, the attorney general will be there, leading the charge against a...

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  What Does Kennedy's Retirement Mean for Reproductive Rights in Texas?

  June 28 at 4 a.m.

  Texas reproductive rights groups and their legal allies made a major move earlier this month. In attempt to reclaim the abortion rights that Texas Legislature has slowly chipped away over the last decade, the groups sued the state. Two weeks after the lawsuit was filed on June 14, however, the...

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  Texas Abortion Rights Groups File Major Challenge to State's Anti-Abortion Laws

  June 15 at 4 a.m.

  Rather than picking off the Texas Legislature's anti-abortion measures one at a time, as reproductive rights groups in the state have seemingly been willing to do over the last decade, a six-pack of pro-choice organizations joined with an abortion provider Thursday to sue the state over a whole slate of...

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  Texas Women Could Bear the Brunt of Trump's Family Planning Funding Changes

  May 24 at 4 a.m.

  Some of the most vulnerable people in Texas could be facing a health care crisis if a new rule proposed by the Trump administration goes into effect. Rolled out in full late Tuesday, the proposed change to the Department of Health and Human Services Title X family planning program would...