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Texas House Approves Abortion Bill HB 2
9:15 p.m.: When folks following the progress of HB 2 arrived at the Texas Capitol this morning, the dew was still wet on the statehouse lawn. When they trailed out nearly 11 hours later, the sun had...
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Greg Abbott & Wendy Davis Tangle with Twitter Townhalls
No doubt things are tumultuous in Texas politics right now. The dramatic fight over abortion legislation has rallied many progressives, and the mounting struggle among Texas politicians to replace...
View ArticleObserver Radio Episode 32: Prop 6, the Death of Brian Claunch and Texas’...
Observer associate editor Forrest Wilder tells us everything we'd possibly want to know about Prop 6, which some claim is a solution to Texas' water woes. The post Observer Radio Episode 32: Prop 6,...
View ArticleJust Six Clinics Likely to Survive Abortion Bill’s Final Restrictions
Many times, the rationale for passing a piece of legislation includes hard numbers: This many dollars will buy that many school lunches; expanding this program will prevent that many infections. Other...
View ArticleUPDATED: Federal Judges Disregard Impact of Abortion Law on Poor Women
Update, June 10, 2015, 11:37 a.m.: Attorneys with the Center for Reproductive Rights, representing abortion providers in the case, on Wednesday asked the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Blocks Texas Abortion Law For Now
For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked two major components of Texas’ omnibus abortion law that would have forced all but nine abortion clinics in the...
View ArticleTexas Doctors Ask SCOTUS to Stem Tide of Abortion Restrictions
Texas abortion providers on Thursday called on the nation’s highest court to answer questions that have plagued legal challenges to restrictions on abortion care for decades: What constitutes an “undue...
View ArticleAn Abortion Option Returns to El Paso After Long Legal Battle
For the last 17 months, West Texans seeking abortion services have had two options: travel hundreds of miles to a San Antonio clinic, or cross the state line into New Mexico for the procedure. Now,...
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Texans Wait Longer for Abortions as Clinics Close
Patrick MichelsPro-choice protesters march down Congress Avenue during the summer of 2013, when anti-abortion lawmakers passed Texas’ highly restrictive omnibus abortion law. New research released...
View ArticleKen Paxton Just Sent His Dream List of Abortion Laws to the Lege
Following the release of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s first round of interim charges — which includes a directive to senators that they take a gander at how the Lege might “preserve our most...
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