ABORTION
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 | STATE | 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 | STATE | women's health
Today, she's fighting for other women in Texas who aren't able to get the health care they need.