Our Fears Confirmed: The Supreme Court Plans to Overturn Roe v. Wade
The leaked draft majority opinion of the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization makes clear that the court plans to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion established nearly a half-century ago with Roe v. Wade.
WTF? An Abortion Bounty Law in 2021?
With one of the most extreme abortion bans this country has ever seen now in effect, politicians, neighbors, and even complete strangers can sue anyone who helps a person access an abortion in Texas after six weeks. This is a full-scale assault on abortion access.
Oct. 13, 2021
What’s Behind the Texas Law That’s Set to Ban Nearly All Abortions in Texas
Here’s what you need to know about what led up to the six-week abortion ban in Texas — and how to fight back.
July 14, 2021
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Texas extremists want more money for its failed Women's Health Program. Will Trump give it to them?
The impact of this scheme is DEVASTATING for Texas women.
Aug. 4, 2017
Texas Wants Federal Support to 'Defund' Planned Parenthood. It's Time for an Outcry.
Anti-abortion politicians in Texas dismantled reproductive health care access — and women paid the price. Now, the Trump administration could green-light this failed program.
May 16, 2017
Rahs and Nahs: A Recap of the Best and Worst of State Reproductive Health Policy
Some public officials have made vocal defenses of their constituents’ reproductive rights, while others have outdone themselves to legislate private medical decisions.
Feb. 14, 2017
The Top 5 Things You Need to Know Right Now About Attacks on Reproductive Health in Texas
The Most Recent Attacks Are Part of a Systematic, Long-Term Agenda to Ban Safe and Legal Abortion
Oct. 30, 2015
Texas Timeline: 5 Big Blows to Reproductive Health in the Past 5 Years
If you want to see the result of Republican leadership's devastating attacks on women's health, look no farther away than Texas. This timeline reveals how low the Texas legislature has sunk in just the past five years, and how hard we need to fight to win back reproductive health care access for Texans.
Oct. 26, 2015
Texas Governor Signs Measure Blocking Low-Income Women’s Access to Cancer Screenings
The night of June 20, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a devastating budget that blocks low-income women from accessing free breast and cervical cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program. This follows years of hostile policies that have left tens of thousands of Texas women without access to cancer screenings, birth control, HIV tests and other preventive care.
June 22, 2015
Best and Worst of 2014: “Really?!” Moment of the Year
The Republican National Committee won this dubious distinction for claiming to support equal pay for women just weeks before a large majority of Republicans in Congress voted to block equal pay legislation.
Dec. 11, 2014