Another day, another report of a woman dying because of Texas’ steadfast refusal to grant half the population bodily autonomy. This time, the victim was Nevaeh Crain, a pregnant 18-year-old East Texas resident, who died after three separate emergency room visits in October of 2023. Each time, ProPublica reported that Crain returned home from the […]
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A Houston Mother Died After Doctors Refused to Treat Her Miscarriage
Earlier this year, a Georgia woman named Amber Thurman became the country’s first “preventable” death following the overturn of Roe v Wade. This week, Texas got its own case. Josseli Barnica, a 28-year-old Honduran mother in Houston, died in 2021 after suffering a miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant, according to ProPublica reporters Cassandra Jaramillo and […]
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Think Abortion Isn’t on the Ballot in Texas? Think Again.
(Editor’s note: This is Part I of a series. Looking for a voting guide on abortion rights? Find key races and legislators’ voting history here.) Texans’ lives are on the line this election cycle. Josseli Barnica, of Houston, died of an infection in 2021, three days after doctors failed to provide care for her miscarriage, […]
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Want to Vote for Abortion Rights in Texas? Here’s Your Guide.
In Texas, support for abortion rights isn’t always consistent along party lines. Here’s a look at the legislators who voted on Senate Bill 8, which outlawed abortion after six weeks and House Bill 1280, which made providing abortions a felony. We also put together a list of Texas Supreme Court races. Unsure of who represents […]
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We’re Sorry to Report That Elon Musk Keeps Offering Women His Sperm
If you need more proof that Elon Musk is a weirdo, look no further than a recent piece by The New York Times about how he’s developed a multi-mansion compound in Austin big enough for his own personal baby-making factory. The Times reports that Musk now has at least three mansions in close proximity in […]
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‘I See You, and I Am With You.’ Texas Women Needed That Harris Rally.
In Texas, the past few years for women have been terrifying. Abortion bans became real. Exceptions turned out to be rare. Some have nearly died during miscarriages. If you don’t feel like you’ve been abandoned by our lawmakers, you might feel like the government is trying to kill you. The 2024 election cycle, meanwhile, has […]
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Texas Doctors Will Start Asking About Your Citizenship Status
When Texans go to the hospital for emergency care, starting on Nov. 1, they can expect to answer questions about their citizenship status. On Aug. 8, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order to collect immigration statuses for anyone who uses public hospitals in Texas. The governor claimed undocumented people are forcing the state to […]
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She Voted for Trump. Then She Had Two Terrifying Miscarriages in Texas.
My sister Victoria was wrangling Elias, her then-2-year-old, into his costume on Halloween when the spots of blood in her underwear became worrisome. It was almost exactly two years ago, in 2022, and Elias had woken up from a nap excited about trick-or-treating. She’d gotten him into a shiny black firefighter hat, a yellow jacket […]
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Texas Kicked Millions Off Medicaid After COVID. It Was a Disaster.
Turns out that kicking millions of people off Medicaid is really bad! The Texas Tribune and ProPublica investigated how Texas behaved in the aftermath of COVID-19, and — surprise!! — we were extremely shitty toward poor people who needed healthcare. To briefly sum up, we kicked more than two million people off Medicaid, which provides […]
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Texas Maternal Mortality Rate Went Up 56% After Abortion Ban
Texas lawmakers fucked around, and now we’re all finding out. Since the state’s abortion ban passed in 2021, the state’s rate of maternal mortality cases rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationally, according to NBC News. The Gender Equity Policy Institute took a look at data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]