Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune

Hospitals are required to stabilize anyone experiencing a medical emergency. Two lawsuits question whether that includes performing an abortion, despite state laws.

Tags: Texas News, Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, abortion, women's health, Texas, Texas abortion ban, U.S. Supreme Court, abortion care, reproductive rights

Federal Title X clinics do not require parental consent for birth control — except in Texas, where a lawsuit upended the longstanding program.

Tags: Texas News, Texas, Title X, birth control, teen access to birth control, women's health, reproductive rights, reproductive health, planned parenthood

The Starr County district attorney dropped the improper charges, but the fallout 'forever changed the Plaintiff’s life,' a new federal lawsuit says.

Tags: Texas News, Lizelle Herrera, Lizelle Gonzalez, Starr County, Texas abortion laws, self-managed abortion, abortion rights, Starr County District Attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez

More than 16,000 babies were born in Texas in 2022 than in 2021, a new study from the University of Houston shows.

Tags: Texas News, Texas abortion ban, Resound Research for Reproductive Health, women's health, reproductive rights, Texas pregnancies, Hispanic pregnancies, teen pregnancies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fertility data, University of Houston, Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, abortion rights, abortion care

The Biden administration reminded hospitals of their obligation to perform life-saving abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Texas sued, arguing it was an overstep that mandated abortions.

Tags: Texas News, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Roe v. Wade, EMTALA, abortion access, abortion rights, women's health