“Ken Paxton is prioritizing his anti-abortion agenda over the health and well-being of women by attempting to shut down telemedicine abortion nationwide,” the group said. “By threatening access to safe and effective reproductive health care, he is putting women di...
Texas has sued a New York doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas. A lawsuit, filed byTexasattorney general Ken Paxton on Thursday, alleges Dr Margaret Carpenter unlawfully prescribed abortion-inducing drugs to the 20-year-old, in violation of the state's laws....
Both of the cases have made history in their own rights being the first of their kind to challenge a state’s abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling inDobbs v. Jackson Whole Women’s Health Organization, which stripped Americans of their constitutional right to abortion. Co...
voters in 10 states will decide on measures that would add abortion rights to their state constitutions.To understand the impact of the changing legal landscape and its complexities, we went to the first state to change
“Ken Paxton is prioritizing his anti-abortion agenda over the health and well-being of women by attempting to shut down telemedicine abortion nationwide,” the group said. “By threatening access to safe and effective reproductive health care, he is putting women directly in harm...
The Texas Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by women who said their lives were put in danger because of the state’s multiple abortion bans. AUSTIN, Texas - A Texas judge on Thursday granted a pregnant woman permission to obtain an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the...
The Center for Reproductive Rights, which was responsible for filing the lawsuit for the women involved, criticized the ruling in a news conference.Nancy Northup, the president and CEO of the Center, stated that they would continue pursuing the issue. ...
Amanda Zurawski, another Texas women, shared her story of when she suffered from a number of medical complications and knew she would miscarry, but doctors told her they could not induce labor because the fetus still had a heartbeat. She was a part of anultimately unsuccessful lawsuitto clari...
This was the news at the start of the week. As the week came to an end, The Texas Tribunereportedon a very different kind of lawsuit related to abortion in the state. A Texas man is suing three women under the wrongful death statute, alleging that they assisted his ex-wife in...
“we have abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint.” It will soon be quaint to think of the demise of Roe as Trump and the conservative justices do: as a kind of settlement that would simplify and de-escalate conflicts about abortion. Texas’ lawsuit makes it clear that...