Last Tuesday, the Senate Committee on State Affairs held a hearing to discuss pressing issues affecting the state. One would imagine that as the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on Texans and our medical systems, the committee would convene to discuss creative...
For pro-choice activists, the next year in Texas, often considered a bellwether for access to abortion, could be harrowing. Anti-choice attacks are being waged in Texas not only at the legislature, but also the courts, and it’s likely that’s going to intensify even...
On Thursday, the campaign arm of Planned Parenthood in Texas endorsed 28 candidates and incumbents for the 2020 elections. Planned Parenthood Texas Votes endorsed 27 Democrats and one Republican running for the Texas House and Senate, both controlled by...
Sen. Ted Cruz joined 19 other U.S. Senators on Tuesday in penning a letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking the agency to ban abortion pills. “As you are surely aware, pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness, and the abortion pill does not cure or...
A growing list of Texas pro-choice activists and donors are pressuring the campaign arm of Planned Parenthood to skip out on endorsing Republican state lawmaker Sarah Davis as she seeks re-election in Houston's House District 134. Davis is the only pro-choice...
In the war against Planned Parenthood, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn have always made their stance well known. In the wake of COVID-19 they are taking that fight even further, encouraging criminal and fraud investigations into a health service provider that is already on...
She had the most famous legal name in American history, even if it wasn’t her own. Norma McCorvey was 22 years old when she sued the state of Texas for the right to an abortion. The suit Roe v. Wade was brought forth by two Dallas-based lawyers Sarah Weddington and...
In a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott, 40 members of the Texas House and Senate raised serious issues with the state’s temporary ban on abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are writing to express our extreme concern about Attorney General Ken Paxton’s press release...
The legal battle for reproductive rights in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic has reached the Supreme Court. On Saturday, Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers in Texas filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court, urging the conservative court to...