My name is Angie, I’m a Texan, I’ve had an abortion. It sometimes feels hard to remember what life pre-pandemic was like, but back in 2017 I was going through my own set of challenges. At the time, I was in the middle of a divorce from my high school sweetheart of 16...
With the election less than eight weeks away, several Texas statewide candidates find themselves locked in tight, single-digit races. And perhaps the best opportunity for Democrats to flip a seat could accomplish a lot. The Signal spoke with Rochelle Garza in between...
Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’ Rourke held a press conference on Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Houston Women’s Reproductive Services Center to mark the state’s trigger law, which bans abortion starting at conception with no exceptions for rape, incest, and narrow...
Today, an anti-abortion trigger law goes into effect in Texas. With very few exceptions (not for rape or incest), abortion will be banned after fertilization. The trigger law also increases the penalties for anybody who administers or facilitates an abortion and makes...
Yesterday, President Biden convened the first meeting of the interagency task force on reproductive healthcare at the White House. He made a series of proclamations dedicated to increasing abortion access and signed a new executive order. Biden’s executive order...
On Tuesday, in a 9-2 vote, the San Antonio City Council passed a resolution supporting abortion access in the city. Like the GRACE act passed in Austin on July 21, the resolution recommends stopping the use of city funds to prosecute, investigate, collect...
The Supreme Court issued its final judgment on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on Tuesday, the last procedural step to finalize the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In Texas, the state’s trigger law HB 1280 is set to take effect at the end of next month,...
In a 10-0 vote, Austin City Council passed a resolution to decriminalize abortion in the state capital. The resolution also asks law enforcement to make prosecuting abortion seekers and abortion providers their lowest priority. And stops agencies from...
Today at a press conference at the Texas Democratic Convention, lawmakers and abortion rights advocates announced a five-point plan for the Biden administration to follow that will restore access to abortion care in Texas. The letter outlines five strategies for the...