Yesterday an all-Republican-appointed three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the mifepristone case, and the likely outcome appears bleak. Last year, a rightwing organization and several anti-choice OB-GYN’s sued the FDA in Amarillo to reverse...
Texas summers are filled with long days of sweltering heat, with the heat indexes in cities with high levels of new construction – like Austin, Houston, and Dallas – reaching 115 degrees during peak working hours. Construction workers in Texas are regularly exposed to...
A new documentary from PBS is highlighting a topic that Texans have become acutely aware of: the black maternal healthcare crisis. Birthing Justice chronicles the experiences and tribulations of those on the frontlines confronting and trying to change this injustice....
Last week, news arrived that a potential ruling in a case about access to medication abortion would be delayed for two weeks. The headlines about the potential disruption to healthcare that could face forty million Americans are bleak (and maybe even jumping the gun),...
A ruling that could potentially ban mifepristone, a medication that can terminate an early pregnancy, throughout the nation has been pushed back two weeks to give one of the manufacturers time to file a briefing. Last year, the rightwing organization Alliance...
After months of delays (conveniently timed after the November election), Texas has finally published a required report about maternal mortality. The results point to a dispiriting picture for those who give birth in Texas, especially for black women. Last week, the...
In what has become a habitual story over the past two and half years, health-conscious Texans must once again prepare themselves for a surge in COVID-19 cases caused by a contagious new variant that is quickly spreading across the state and country. The BA.5 variant...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made Americans hyper-aware to the risks and consequences of not taking developing pathogens seriously, so the concerning appearance of the monkeypox virus outside its usual confines in Central and West Africa has understandably commanded a...
In a press conference last week after the standard litany of prayers and thoughts was offered, Texas Governor Greg Abbott tried to pass off, once again, the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and mass shootings in general, as attributable to lone wolves...