Health & Science
More women join lawsuit challenging Texas’ abortion laws
Posted on · Twenty women are challenging the state’s abortion laws, saying they were unable to get the health care they needed for their medically complex pregnancies.
Health & Science
Texas to get four new maternal health research centers amid mortality crisis for moms
Posted on · Texas continues to struggle with maternal mortality and morbidity, despite a decade of tracking and reviewing these cases. Four new research centers will pilot innovative solutions.
Texas
She was told her twin sons wouldn’t survive. Texas law made her give birth anyway
Posted on · Miranda Michel, 26, couldn’t leave the state for an abortion. But she also couldn’t bear the idea of carrying a nonviable pregnancy to term.
Court
Women accused of facilitating abortion in Galveston wrongful-death lawsuit file countersuit
Posted on · The women are accused of helping their friend terminate her pregnancy, but they now claim her ex-husband, who brought the lawsuit, knew she had obtained the medication and did nothing to stop her.
Medicine & Wellness
Three Texas women are sued for wrongful death after allegedly helping friend obtain abortion medication
Posted on · In the first lawsuit of its kind since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a husband from Galveston County seeks damages from women who allegedly helped his ex-wife obtain the medications to terminate her pregnancy.
Health & Science
Texas family planning clinics require parental consent for birth control following court ruling
Posted on · The Title X program has long provided free, confidential contraception to anyone, regardless of age, income or immigration status. A North Texas federal judge ruled in December that the program violates Texas law and parents’ rights.
Health & Science
Federal court ruling may prevent Texas teens from getting birth control without parental permission
Posted on · U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a former religious liberty lawyer, found that a federal program that gives teens access to birth control denies a parent “a fundamental right to control and direct the upbringing of his minor children.”
Politics
Texas lawmakers target property taxes, election fraud and transgender people in new legislation ahead of 2023 session
Posted on · Thousands of bills are expected to be filed for the legislative session that begins in January. Lawmakers are expected to have a budget surplus when they return to Austin.
Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered to testify in abortion lawsuit after evading subpoena
Posted on · A federal judge who previously quashed the subpoena ruled that the attorney general must take the witness stand in a lawsuit from abortion funds.
Politics
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says
Posted on · In an affidavit, a process server said that the state’s top attorney tried to evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund’s lawsuit against the state.
Health & Science
Religious employers need not cover PrEP in their health plans, federal judge rules
Posted on · U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans on employer-sponsored health care plans. The ruling will likely be appealed.
Guns
Some Texas GOP donors urge Congress to act on gun control measures
Posted on · More than 250 self-declared gun enthusiasts, including donors who have contributed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaigns, have signed onto an open letter supporting Sen. John Cornyn’s efforts at bipartisan gun reform legislation.
Health & Science
If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Texas will completely ban abortion
Posted on · Politico said it obtained a draft Supreme Court majority opinion indicating the landmark abortion ruling will be overturned. Abortion is still legal in Texas up to six weeks of pregnancy.
Abortion
Former state Sen. Wendy Davis challenges Texas abortion law in court
Posted on · Davis is best known for her 13-hour filibuster against another restrictive abortion law in 2013. Now, she’s suing to block enforcement of Texas’ current ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
Abortion
State judge declares Texas abortion law unconstitutional — but does not stop it from being enforced
Posted on · The fate of the statute remains uncertain. An appeal to the ruling is already underway, and an opinion on the law from the U.S. Supreme Court is still pending.