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Four Texas counties now ban travel for abortions
The ordinance bars Texans from leaving the state to end their pregnancies.
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Anti-abortion groups sue San Antonio over new Reproductive Justice Fund
The suit claims the fund, which supports nonprofits offering reproductive care, is turning over taxpayer money to ‘criminal organizations.’
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Assclown Alert: Banning travel in Texas with anti-abortion activist Mark Lee Dickson
Some rural Texas counties are banning people from traveling on their roads to get out-of-state abortions. The idea didn’t spring up organically.
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A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth.
The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like pains at work, but said she wasn’t allowed to leave for hours. The anti-abortion state is fighting her lawsuit, in part by saying her fetus didn’t clearly have rights.
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Assclown Alert: Ignoring medical realities for the sake of cruelty with Ken Paxton
Paxton’s office is appealing a court decision that would let doctors make the choice to end complicated pregnancies that could endanger a woman’s health.
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Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds
This is the first analysis of live births since the law, which banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, went into effect in September 2021.
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A year after Dobbs decision, Texas has settled in to a post-abortion reality
The impact of Texas’ near-total ban on abortion is coming into focus as patients and providers leave the state, legal challenges languish and the state’s social safety net braces for a baby boom.
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Assclown Alert: Sticking it to Planned Parenthood with Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk
The same judge who tried to outlaw the widely used abortion drug mifepristone is now preparing to hear a dubious legal case that would slap Planned Parenthood with $1.8 billion in fines.
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U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restores access to abortion pill
The five-day administrative stay from Justice Samuel Alito gives the Supreme Court time to consider the case next week.
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Abortion drug remains approved, with restrictions, appeals court rules
Mifepristone will remain on the market, but approved only for use up to seven weeks of pregnancy, versus 10 weeks, and it cannot be prescribed by telehealth or mailed, which were already illegal in Texas.
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Five women denied abortions by Texas sue to force state to clarify rules on medical exceptions
The Center for Reproductive Rights called its suit the ‘first of its kind’ since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer.
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The 33rd annual San Antonio International Women’s Day March will take place Sunday, Mar. 5
The march will begin at Milam Park, near downtown’s historic Market Square.
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In Texas’ first post-Roe legislative session, there’s a new political power dynamic on abortion
While Democrats and the far-right edge of the Republican Party remain focused on abortion, leaders in both chambers have not yet spent much time discussing the issue this session.
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Why Texas is unlikely to let voters decide on abortion access
A Texas Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment stopping future abortion restrictions. Voters would have to approve it — but Republican lawmakers aren’t likely to put it in front of them.
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Delayed Texas maternal mortality report to be released next week, state says
Due in September, the report was delayed to allow a full review of 2019 cases, the state health agency said. That review didn’t change the findings.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered to testify in abortion lawsuit after evading subpoena
A federal judge who previously quashed the subpoena ruled that the attorney general must take the witness stand in a lawsuit from abortion funds.
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San Antonio’s mural of Ted Cruz snuggling knocked-up Greg Abbott has already been painted over
The artwork depicting a pregnant Gov. Greg Abbott with his belly being fondled by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been obscured behind a coat of fresh purple paint.
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Texans who perform abortions now face up to life in prison, $100,000 fine
Texas, the largest state to restrict abortions, now has three significant bans on the books, setting up a potential legal minefield.