The Signal recently spoke with Nancy Cardenas Pena, Texas state director for policy and advocacy for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, one of the three abortion justice groups that helped free Lizelle Herrera in Starr County. Herrera, 26,...
As news spread over the arrest of 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera in Starr County, there was immediate outrage and action over somebody being detained for an alleged self-induced abortion. Now that the District Attorney of Starr County filed a motion to drop those...
After the Oklahoma legislature passed a near-total abortion ban on Tuesday, the Signal spoke with Emily Wales, the Interim President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains. After Senate Bill 8 was signed by Greg Abbott in September, Oklahoma absorbed the largest...
As thousands rallied in Oklahoma against a Texas-style abortion ban, news reached the protestors that another anti-abortion bill, one that entirely bans abortion in the state, passed the Oklahoma legislature. The bill will not only have a devastating impact on...
Earlier this month, Republican Texas House lawmaker Briscoe Cain sent Texas abortion funds cease-and-desist letters, threatening the funds, their donors and volunteers with criminal prosecution unless they stopped helping fund abortions in Texas. Now, the Texas Equal...
Even after passing Senate Bill 8, anti-abortion activists are still yearning to take their extremism to a new level by targeting abortion funds in Texas. Now, two abortion funds in Texas have filed their own lawsuits as a legal counter. Last week, the Lilith Fund and...
Texas is often the epicenter of extreme rightwing legislation that gets exported to other red states. That pattern is holding true with a new crop of abortions bans that copies the disturbing citizen vigilante enforcement feature of Senate Bill 8, which took effect...
Texas’ restrictive six-week abortion ban went before the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday with arguments from the state and abortion providers. For context, Senate Bill 8 denies pregnant people access to an abortion after six weeks and deputizes private citizens to sue...
Texans have a lot of pride, but it's been a tough year for Texans to be proud of our state. It’s been a year where Texans have been forced to be resilient because leaders manufactured statewide disasters to appease right-wing lobbies –– take the winter storm, the...