If Ken Paxton is anything, it’s busy. These past two weeks, our attorney general has sued the State Fair of Texas, raided the home of an 87-year-old, and attacked the rights of transgender Texans (again). Now, he’s suing the Department of Health and Human Services because he doesn’t like a rule that protects Texans’ privacy […]
Tag: Abortion
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Austin City Council Approves Abortion Care Travel (Despite Lawsuit)
Austin’s city council just put its money where its mouth is, voting to move forward with funding travel costs for out-of-state abortion care — despite a lawsuit claiming the move violates state law. In mid-August, the city first approved $400,000 to help Austinites with travel costs to states where abortion is still legal. The funds […]
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After My Abortion, My Next OB-GYN Called Pregnant Women ‘Host Organisms’
On a slow afternoon in the summer of 2019, I took my laptop outside to work in a sunroom, the only place in my small house where I can be separated from my husband and children by a sliding glass door. I was perusing my inbox when an email from the Texas Freedom Network caught […]