The first lawsuit challenging the Texas abortion ban was filed in Austin today. The lawsuit, Zurawski v. State of Texas, was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of five women who were denied abortions in Texas, as well as two medical providers. In...
Today, the start of Women’s History Month, Mayday.Health is launching a multi-day education campaign centered around accessing abortion pills. They will have a heavy presence in Texas with mobile billboards in Austin, Dallas, and Amarillo, which is the site of a...
The news about abortion access in Texas has been dreadful, and somehow it always seems to get worse. Last Friday, however, offered at least some reprieve for several Texas abortion funds. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ruled that a decades-old abortion law on the...
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...
As executive director of the Texas Freedom Network, I know fighting for a Texas that’s truly for all demands that I reserve a deep well of hope. Yet, I feel the frustration so many have as the right continues to use religion as a weapon to advance a radical political...
This week a new poll from NPR and Ipsos shows that most Americans oppose outright bans on abortion, like the kind found in Texas. The Signal spoke with Mallory Newall, the Vice President of Public Affairs for Ipsos about that and other results from the poll, which was...
Last month, a Trump-appointed judge ruled that a federal program which provides contraception to teenagers is unlawful for violating parental rights. While the case will likely bounce through various courts, the decision is having an immediate impact on teenagers in...
One of the key groups behind the overturning of Roe v. Wade has filed another anti-abortion lawsuit, this one in Texas. Alliance Defending Freedom sued the FDA last week to reverse federal approval of mifepristone, a medication that can terminate an early pregnancy....