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U.S. Dept. of Justice Sues Texas Over New Abortion Law

U.S. Dept. of Justice Sues Texas Over New Abortion Law

The Satanic Temple Challenges Abortion Ban

The Satanic Temple Challenges Abortion Ban

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In Collin County Jail, a Woman Begged for Medical Care. She Lost Her Pregnancy, Anyway.

By Patrick Strickland
Jun 17, 2021

Lauren Kent begged her Collin County jailers and medical staff for adequate prenatal care, according a lawsuit. In the end, she had a stillbirth.
North Texas Valedictorian's Pro-Choice Commencement Speech Goes Viral

By Simone Carter
Jun 3, 2021

This week, a North Texas valedictorian's commencement speech went viral.
Dallas Reproductive Rights Protesters Look to Future After New Abortion Laws Pass

By Steven Monacelli
May 29, 2021

Gov. Greg Abbott signed the so-called 'heartbeat bill' into law earlier this month. Reproductive rights protesters say they hope to vote him out of office.
Texas Just Effectively Banned Abortions. Rights Groups Plan to Fight Back.

By Patrick Strickland
May 19, 2021

On Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law one of the most hardline abortion laws on the books around the country.
Abortions Will Soon Be Much Harder to Get in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott 'Can't Wait.'

By Patrick Strickland
May 6, 2021

The so-called 'heartbeat bill' would also open up the possibility of lawsuits against abortion providers and those who help individuals obtain abortions.
Texas Gets Another Anti-Abortion 'Sanctuary City,' This Time in Lubbock

By Patrick Strickland
May 3, 2021

When voters went to the ballot box this weekend, Lubbock joined around two dozen cities in Texas that have passed local ordinances seeking to ban abortion.
The Satanic Temple Says Texas Abortion Laws Violate Religious Liberty. So, They're Filing Suit.

By Jacob Vaughn
Feb 23, 2021

An abortion is a ritualistic process for the The Satanic Temple's members, its spokesperson says.
Abortion Rights Groups Sue Man Behind 'Sanctuary Cities' for Defamation

By Stephen Young
Jun 15, 2020

A year ago last Thursday, the town of Waskom in deep East Texas declared itself a sanctuary city from abortion. The move was as notable for its novelty as its glaring unconstitutionality, but it started a movement. At the urging of East Texas Right to Life director and provocateur Mark...
Aided By 5th Circuit, Texas Continues Running Out the Clock on Pandemic Abortion Seekers

By Stephen Young
Apr 20, 2020

It's starting to look a lot like the final result of the legal battle isn't going to matter very much. Regardless of whether the federal courts finally determine that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did, in fact, have the right to effectively ban abortion during the novel coronavirus pandemic, thousands of...
Court Opens Texas Abortion Clinics Again, Paxton Appeals Again and ’Round and ’Round We Go

By Stephen Young
Apr 10, 2020

As the coronavirus crisis gears up to enter its second month in the United States, it's become increasingly difficult to know on any given day whether abortion remains legal in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott banned it as part of his emergency order in March. Abortion providers sued and got clinics...
5th Circuit Stands Up Texas Coronavirus Abortion Ban. Again.

By Stephen Young
Apr 8, 2020

For many Texans, the coronavirus pandemic and the changes it's inflicted on their everyday lives are merely a bad inconvenience. They can't go to restaurants, have to home-school their kids and are facing the physical and mental struggles of indeterminate monotony. Others face more serious consequences, like the loss of...
Texas’ Coronavirus Abortion Ban Back in Effect

By Stephen Young
Mar 31, 2020

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's coronavirus abortion ban is back in place thanks to an emergency stay from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The stay, according to the court, was issued so that it can give full consideration to an emergency appeal from the Texas attorney general. The ban...
Abortion Still Legal in Texas After Judge Slaps Paxton, Abbott

By Stephen Young
Mar 31, 2020

Despite Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton's best efforts to make hay while the coronavirus spreads, abortion remains as legal in Texas as it was before the virus hit, following a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel. A little more than a week ago,...
Abortion Rights Groups Sue Texas Over Coronavirus Abortion Ban

By Stephen Young
Mar 26, 2020

If you're looking for some normalcy during the novel coronavirus pandemic, here it is: Texas, now as has been for the last decade, is getting sued over an abortion restriction. This time, no big surprise, it's Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on all abortions that don't save the would-be mother's life,...
Texas Gov. Abbott Banned Abortion Last Week and Didn’t Think to Mention It

By Stephen Young
Mar 24, 2020

Gov. Greg Abbott didn't say anything about it last week, when he announced his ban on elective medical procedures, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made it clear Monday afternoon — abortion is banned in Texas until, at the earliest, April 3. Before the novel coronavirus pandemic, anyone seeking an...
Dallas Immigration Advocates Seek to Protect Women Fleeing Gender Violence

By Meredith Lawrence
Mar 17, 2020

Growing up in Egypt, Sahar lived in a city near the sunny Mediterranean Sea. In the center of her hometown is a shrine to her great-grandfather, considered a saint in the Muslim faith. But her parents did not require her to wear a hijab, and her mother didn't wear the...
Sanctuary Cities for The Unborn Movement Sneaks Closer to Dallas

By Stephen Young
Jan 31, 2020

Ellis County is now, officially, a safe space for guns, fetuses and conservatives. This week, the Ellis County Commissioners Court voted 5-0 in favor of a resolution declaring itself a sanctuary city for the unborn, hopping on a bandwagon started by anti-choice activists last year in Waskom. In the succeeding...
Trump Administration Plays Enabler to Texas’ Crappy Women’s Health Program

By Stephen Young
Jan 23, 2020

In 2011, Texas booted Planned Parenthood from the state's Women's Health Program, starving the family-planning provider from federal Medicaid funds. Almost half of Planned Parenthood's Texas clinics closed, depriving many in the state of critical medical care. Two years later, the federal government cut off funding to the program, because...
Abortion Sanctuary Movement Continues its Long March Through Small-Town Texas

By Stephen Young
Jan 16, 2020

When the Observer first reported on the burgeoning "sanctuary cities" for the unborn movement last summer, the whole thing seemed like a sideshow. Waskom, a town smack-dab in the middle of Gohmertland in East Texas, banned abortion clinics within its city limits. The town based its decision on the fact that,...
Texas Abortion Patients Seeking to End Pregnancies on Their Own

By Stephen Young
Jan 10, 2020

However a government might seek to restrict abortion, people with pregnancies they don't wish to carry to term are going to seek the procedure out. It's a fact one will hear again and again from pro-choice researchers and activists, and a new study from TxPEP, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project,...

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