REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
I’m a Texan. But I don’t know if I can be a Texas OB-GYN
ABORTION | HEALTH | health care | HEALTHCARE | HEALTHCARE | maternal healthcare | TEXAS | women's health
‘Collateral damage’: Texas doctors say abortion ban endangers pregnant women
| January 16, 2025
At least three women with miscarriage complications have died. Some doctors blame the Texas abortion ban.
New study finds that air pollution could be threatening the success of IVF treatment
| December 19, 2024
Researchers looked at the air pollution levels while the donor eggs were developing and the 72 days when the sperm was developing and found a link between an increase in exposure to air pollution and lower embryo quality and egg survival in both cases.
Misinformation about birth control is rampant on social media, alarming doctors
| December 17, 2024
Doctors are concerned that misinformation about birth control might make some women get off it at a time when there are fewer options available for unintended pregnancies in the US.
Crisis pregnancy centers give questionable advice on unproven ‘abortion pill reversal,’ study finds
| December 11, 2024
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that 30% of these anti-abortion ‘fake clinics’ promote "abortion pill reversal," a treatment that’s not backed by science and does not meet clinical standards.
Author of Texas abortion ban blames everyone but his law for women’s deaths
| November 15, 2024
State Sen. Bryan Hughes defended the Texas abortion ban he wrote just days after the end of an election cycle in which it was harshly criticized.
A Texas woman died after the hospital said it’s a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage
| October 30, 2024
ABORTION | HEALTHCARE | parenting | politcal | Repro Rights | reproduction rights | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story | women's health
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat stopped. Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d […]
Op-Ed: Comstock is Trump and the GOP’s backdoor to a national abortion ban
| October 29, 2024
In an op-ed, Kate Kelly highlights how the 1873 Comstock Act, passed at the behest of Anthony Comstock — a man so obsessed with abortion providers, he drove one to suicide with his relentless harassment — could be revived by Republicans to enact a nationwide abortion ban.
In her words: At age 17, DakotaRei escaped Texas to get an abortion
| October 28, 2024
2024 ELECTIONS | ABORTION | HEALTHCARE | Repro Rights | reproduction rights | TEXAS | women's health
Today, she's fighting for other women in Texas who aren't able to get the health care they need.
Kamala Harris rallies with Beyoncé to highlight ‘Trump abortion bans’
| October 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris rallied in Texas on Friday to call attention to the state’s abortion ban, which she blamed on former President Donald Trump.
Colin Allred rallies for reproductive freedom with Kamala Harris in Houston
| October 26, 2024
US Rep. Colin Allred leaned into his record of defending reproductive rights during a rally on Friday in Houston with Vice President Kamala Harris.
White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
| October 21, 2024
The proposal comes days before Election Day, as Vice President Kamala Harris affixes her presidential campaign to a promise of expanding women's health care access in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to undo nationwide abortion rights two years ago.
Supreme Court refuses to make it easier to get emergency abortions in Texas
| October 7, 2024
The US Supreme Court let stand an injunction barring federal guidance that said Texas hospitals must perform emergency abortions to protect the pregnant woman’s health even if they violated the state’s abortion ban.