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  5th Circuit Stands Up Texas Coronavirus Abortion Ban. Again.

  April 8 at 4 a.m.

  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...

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  Texas’ Coronavirus Abortion Ban Back in Effect

  March 31 at 1:38 p.m.

  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...

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  Abortion Still Legal in Texas After Judge Slaps Paxton, Abbott

  March 31 at 4 a.m.

  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,...

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  Abortion Rights Groups Sue Texas Over Coronavirus Abortion Ban

  March 26 at 11:11 a.m.

  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,...

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  Texas Gov. Abbott Banned Abortion Last Week and Didn’t Think to Mention It

  March 24 at 4 a.m.

  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...

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  Dallas Immigration Advocates Seek to Protect Women Fleeing Gender Violence

  March 17 at 4 a.m.

  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...