Texas, Dan Patrick and Lt. Gov
Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."
Amanda Zurawski, who nearly died after being denied an abortion, has been fighting to clarify the medical exception to Texas law for years. For the first time, Republicans might be willing to take up the issue.
“We’re mailing a lot to Texas,” said Jay Lynch, who handles most of the packaging and postage for Her Safe Harbor, an abortion-drug-by-mail service spearheaded by his wife. Debra ...
Rarely does the public hear about medication abortion and how hard it is to access. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently filed the first lawsuit against an out-of-state abortion pill ...
The states want the federal Food and Drug Administration to prohibit telehealth prescriptions for mifepristone and require that it be used only in the first seven weeks of pregnancy instead of the current limit of 10 weeks.
A Texas judge has allowed three states to move forward with a legal challenge seeking to impose stricter rules on the abortion pill mifepristone, reigniting the battle over medication abortion access in the U.
Until recently, abortion-ban states like Texas mostly gnashed their teeth and railed against their blue state counterparts for allowing this underground enterprise to flourish. But now ...
The Texas Legislature may clarify for medical professionals when it’s legal to perform a life-saving abortion, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said this week. “We need to clarify any language so that doctors are not in fear of being penalized if they think the life of the mother’s at risk,
The approach hinges on Texas’s wrongful-death statute and the idea that helping someone obtain an abortion qualifies as murder under the state’s homicide law and Texas’s abortion ban ...
Texas Democrats aim to expand abortion access, facing opposition from Republicans wanting to further restrict it.
Every month, thousands of Texas women are deciding whether to keep a pregnancy. I have yet to hear one say they cared much what lawmakers thought.