Elon Musk declines to weigh in on Texas abortion law after Gov. Abbott said he supports the policy
3 years, 3 months ago

Elon Musk declines to weigh in on Texas abortion law after Gov. Abbott said he supports the policy

Daily Mail  

Elon Musk has declined to comment on Texas' restrictive new abortion law after Governor Greg Abbott said that the tech mogul supported the state's 'social policies.' Musk moved to Texas from California last year Elon Musk declined to comment on Texas' restrictive abortion law on Thursday but hinted at his opposition of the heartbeat bill Gov. Abbott said 'Elon consistently tells me that he likes the social policies in the state of Texas' when insisting that Texas' conservative social politics will drive business to the state The law, known as the 'Texas Heartbeat Act', bans abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected - before many women even know they are pregnant. From left: Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Stephen Breyer, Amy Coney Barrett, and Sonia Sotomayor Texas state Rep. Donna Howard, center at lectern, stands with fellow lawmakers in the House Chamber as she opposes a bill introduced that would ban abortions as early as six weeks Texas lawmakers wrote the law to evade federal court review by allowing private citizens to bring civil lawsuits in state court against anyone involved in an abortion, other than the patient.

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Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report
4 weeks ago

Texas won't review maternal deaths post-Dobbs: report

Salon  

A Texas committee that is meant to review pregnancy-related deaths in the state won’t review cases from 2022 and 2023, the Washington Post reported. Related How abortion funds are preparing for another Trump presidency According to the report, Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members said in September the change was made to “be more contemporary.” The move has …

Harris to Campaign in Texas to Highlight State's Abortion Ban
2 months ago

Harris to Campaign in Texas to Highlight State's Abortion Ban

Associated Press  

Vice President Kamala Harris will campaign in Texas to highlight the state's restrictive abortion laws. She will visit Houston to tell a story about Donald Trump's role in eliminating Roe v. Wade, what that's meant for people in a state like Texas, and the stakes — if you live in a state currently without an abortion ban — that could …

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court declines Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case

LA Times  

The Supreme Court let stand a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations if they would break Texas law. The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate the law in Texas, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans. The justices did not detail their reasoning for …

Column: As 10 states prepare to vote on abortion rights, Texas shows that abortion bans kill women
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: As 10 states prepare to vote on abortion rights, Texas shows that abortion bans kill women

LA Times  

Rob Bonta, left, at a news conference Monday with Anna Nusslock, who says she was illegally denied an emergency abortion at a Catholic hospital in Eureka this year. — Nancy L. Cohen, president, Gender Equity Policy Institute There can no longer be any doubt that the abortion bans enacted in more than 20 states threaten women’s health. The bellwether state …

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Texas medical panel on …

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban
6 months ago

Texas medical panel issues new guidelines for doctors but no specific exceptions for abortion ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas medical panel on Friday approved guidance for doctors working under one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans but refused to list specific exceptions to the law, which doctors have complained is dangerously unclear. The decision by the Texas Medical Board came less than a month after the state Supreme Court upheld the law that …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge from women denied abortion during emergencies

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Texas Supreme Court justices then overturned …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a closely watched challenge to the state’s restrictive abortion ban, ruling against a group of women who had serious pregnancy complications and became the first in the U.S. to testify in court about being denied abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned. The court said the law’s exceptions, as written, …

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state’s abortion law over medical exceptions

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski had been told that she had a condition that meant her fetus would not survive. The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S. following a lawsuit by women who had serious pregnancy complications. The unanimous ruling from the court, whose nine justices are all elected Republicans, …

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban

Salon  

All nine Republican justices of the Texas Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the state's strict abortion ban on Friday that was brought by a group of women who said their lives were put at risk when they suffered serious pregnancy complications and could not access the necessary medical care. They claimed this happened because the state's abortion law isn’t …

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner
7 months, 2 weeks ago

How a Texas man is testing out-of-state abortions by asking a court to subpoena his ex-partner

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man is petitioning a court to authorize an obscure legal action to find out who allegedly helped his former partner obtain an out-of-state abortion, setting up the latest test of the reach of statewide abortion bans. As some states work to expand abortion access and others impose more limits following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning …

Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban
9 months ago

Texas medical panel won’t provide list of exceptions to abortion ban

Associated Press  

DALLAS — A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The board’s proposed guidelines on exceptions to Texas’ ban on abortion from the moment of fertilization, issued …

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance

Salon  

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. “When a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the life of the pregnant person — or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA’s emergency medical condition definition — that state law is preempted,” …

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion
1 year ago

'Outrageous': Biden on woman forced to leave Texas for abortion

Hindustan Times  

US President Joe Biden said it was "outrageous" that a woman was forced to leave Texas to seek an emergency abortion, after the state's courts said she could not terminate her risky pregnancy. On Monday Cox left the state to seek an emergency abortion -- and hours later the Texas Supreme Court issued an order siding with the government and …

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be
1 year ago

Opinion: A Texas case shows how cruel and illusory the latest abortion-ban exceptions can be

LA Times  

Kate Cox, whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis, had to leave her home state of Texas in order to obtain an abortion. A historic drama playing out in Texas ended Tuesday when the Texas Supreme Court held that Kate Cox, a woman 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus with trisomy 18, an almost always fatal abnormality, could not legally end …

Texas Supreme Court halts order allowing emergency abortion
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court halts order allowing emergency abortion

Al Jazeera  

Case seen as major test since constitutional right to abortion in the United States was overturned last year. The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court’s ruling that allowed a woman who is 20 weeks pregnant to get an abortion despite the conservative US state’s ban on the procedure. The one-page order from the all-Republican top court was …

Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from having an emergency abortion
1 year ago

Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from having an emergency abortion

ABC  

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion shortly after the state's attorney general requested the block. Key points: The woman's fetus was diagnosed with a genetic abnormality that usually results in miscarriage, stillbirth or death soon after birth The Texas Supreme Court halted a lower court ruling for the abortion after a …

Texas court allows first abortion since ban
1 year ago

Texas court allows first abortion since ban

ABC  

A Texas judge has ruled that a woman with a complicated, likely non-viable pregnancy can get an abortion, in what her lawyers say is the first such case since the US Supreme Court last year allowed states to ban abortion. Key points: The state's abortion ban includes only a narrow exception on health grounds The ruling does not expand abortion …

A Texas judge grants a pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite the state’s ban
1 year ago

A Texas judge grants a pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite the state’s ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday gave a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge over bans that more than a dozen states have enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned. It’s just not realistic.” State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, an elected Democrat, granted a temporary restraining …

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban
1 year ago

Texas judge grants pregnant woman permission to get an abortion despite state’s ban

LA Times  

A Texas judge Thursday granted a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to obtain an abortion — an unprecedented challenge over bans enacted in more than a dozen states since Roe vs. Wade was overturned. State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, a Democrat, said she would grant a temporary restraining order that would allow Cox to have …

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban
1 year ago

A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. Although Texas allows exceptions, doctors and women have argued in court this year that …

Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state’s Supreme Court
1 year ago

Texas women who could not get abortions despite health risks take challenge to state’s Supreme Court

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state’s abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious risks to their health. The Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments for Zurawski v. State of Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Dr. Austin Dennard …

More Texas counties are trying to prevent people from using specific roads to get an abortion
1 year, 2 months ago

More Texas counties are trying to prevent people from using specific roads to get an abortion

Associated Press  

LUBBOCK, Texas — A Texas county near New Mexico — where abortion is legal — has banned helping people traveling to get an abortion in one of the newest ways conservatives are trying to restrict abortion access since the fall of Roe v. Wade. Lubbock County is the largest of four Texas counties that have now adopted a version of …

Texas high court allows law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors to take effect
1 year, 3 months ago

Texas high court allows law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors to take effect

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court allowed a new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Friday, setting up Texas to be the most populous state with such restrictions on transgender children. Last week, a state district judge ruled the pending law violated the rights of transgender children and their families to seek appropriate medical …

Texas judge temporarily lifts abortion ban for medical emergencies
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas judge temporarily lifts abortion ban for medical emergencies

The Hindu  

A court in Texas on Friday issued a temporary order siding with a group of women and doctors who brought a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion bans. The case, which was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, argues that the way medical exceptions are defined in Texas' laws is confusing, stoking fear among doctors and causing a "health crisis." …

Texas judge sides with women after harrowing testimony over anti-abortion law
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas judge sides with women after harrowing testimony over anti-abortion law

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. We’re back to relying on doctors and not …

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications
1 year, 4 months ago

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban has proven too restrictive for women with serious pregnancy complications and must allow exceptions without doctors fearing the threat of criminal charges. State District Judge Jessica Mangrum’s ruling granted a temporary injunction that prevents Texas from enforcing the ban against physicians who in their “good faith judgment” end …

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications
1 year, 4 months ago

A judge has ruled Texas’ abortion ban is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks, left, and Samantha Casiano, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term and give birth to a baby who died four hours after birth, center, stand with their attorney Molly Duane outside the Travis County Courthouse on July …

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order
1 year, 4 months ago

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order

NPR  

Texas abortion bans are back in place after state appeals judge's order Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah McCammon/NPR Sarah McCammon/NPR The Texas attorney general's office has filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court, effectively blocking a judge's hours-old order that temporarily lifted a ban on emergency abortions. In her ruling, Travis County District Judge Jessica Mangrum wrote that …

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law
1 year, 5 months ago

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — For the first time since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in a court Wednesday of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger. “I survived sepsis and I don’t think today was much less traumatic than that,” said Amanda Zurawksi, one …

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law
1 year, 5 months ago

Texas women denied abortions give emotional accounts in court, ask judge to clarify law

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski, one of the plaintiffs suing Texas, speaks in front of the state Capitol in Austin. For the first time since Roe vs. Wade was overturned, Texas women who were denied abortions testified in court of carrying babies they knew would not survive and continuing pregnancies that put their health in worsening danger. “I survived sepsis, and I don’t …

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law
1 year, 7 months ago

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — One woman had to carry her baby, missing much of her skull, for months knowing she’d bury her daughter soon after she was born. All of the women were told they could not end their pregnancies in Texas, a state that has enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws. Now, they’re asking a Texas court to …

Texas abortion law: the new unintended crisis that could explode in the state.
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas abortion law: the new unintended crisis that could explode in the state.

Slate  

For three days last fall, Leah Wilson entered her pregnant patient’s hospital room and checked the fetus for a heartbeat. “These are things that I haven’t seen in, you know, 20 years of practicing OB, 14 years of practicing high-risk OB—I’ve never run into these situations where people are wondering what to do.” The inability to provide what they say …

Texas judge in abortion pill case is a conservative favorite
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas judge in abortion pill case is a conservative favorite

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Texas judge hearing a case that could throw into jeopardy access to the nation’s most common method of abortion is a former attorney for a Christian legal group who critics say is being sought out by conservative litigants because they believe he’ll be sympathetic to their causes. Before the abortion pill case, Kacsmaryk was at the center …

Texas judge to consider halting sale of abortion pill across US
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas judge to consider halting sale of abortion pill across US

Al Jazeera  

Anti-abortion groups are pushing to revoke or suspend approval of pill used in more than half of all US abortions. US federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a conservative appointee of former President Donald Trump, has yet to issue a ruling after more than four hours of argument over whether to ban mifepristone, an abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug …

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives
1 year, 9 months ago

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, say it risked their lives

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Five women who said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives are suing Texas over its abortion ban, the latest legal fight against state restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The lawsuit filed Monday in state court said the Texas law, one of the strictest in the country, is …

Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court
1 year, 9 months ago

Why the Victims of Texas’ Most Lethal Abortion Bans Are Finally Going to Court

Slate  

On Tuesday, five women filed a lawsuit against Texas claiming that the state’s near-absolute abortion ban prevented doctors from terminating pregnancies that had threatened their lives. But we don’t have to guess the state’s reaction, because it has already staked out a position on this exact question: Texas’ abortion bans strictly bar doctors from terminating a pregnancy until it is …

Texas women who were denied abortions sue the state over ban
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas women who were denied abortions sue the state over ban

Firstpost  

The women wanted to carry their pregnancies to term but discovered during medical examinations that their fetuses were not viable Washington: Five Texas women who were denied abortions despite serious complications have sued the conservative US state, asking a judge to clarify exceptions to the new laws. The lawsuit, filed late Monday, “includes devastating, first-hand accounts of women’s lives almost …

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, saying it threatened their lives
1 year, 9 months ago

Women sue Texas over abortion ban, saying it threatened their lives

LA Times  

Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin on May 14, 2022. Five women who said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives are suing Texas over its abortion ban, the latest legal fight against state restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe vs. Wade last year. The lawsuit, filed …

Texas women file lawsuit over state's abortion ban, saying the law put their lives at risk
1 year, 9 months ago

Texas women file lawsuit over state's abortion ban, saying the law put their lives at risk

CBS News  

Austin, Texas — A group of women and two doctors are suing the state of Texas after the women were denied abortions in the state despite facing what they say were serious risks to their health or the health of the fetuses. "I will never forget when one specialist tore off his mask and threw it in the trash," one …

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger
1 year, 9 months ago

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger

NPR  

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger Enlarge this image toggle caption Sarah McCammon/NPR Sarah McCammon/NPR AUSTIN — Five women who were denied abortions under Texas law while facing medical crises are suing the state, asking a judge to clarify exceptions to the laws. " have been denied necessary and potentially life-saving …

‘Texas is not abortion-free yet’: After Roe v Wade, what’s next?
1 year, 11 months ago

‘Texas is not abortion-free yet’: After Roe v Wade, what’s next?

Al Jazeera  

50 years after the US Supreme Court decision, a look at life in a post-Roe world. Legislators and activists want to make 2023 the year of closing the loopholes that remain, whether that’s travel to nearby states for the procedure or targeting abortion medication by mail. It had made abortion legal across the United States after the US Supreme Court …

New California gun control law mimics Texas abortion measure
2 years, 5 months ago

New California gun control law mimics Texas abortion measure

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California punched back Friday against two recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions as Gov. The Supreme Court’s support for the Texas law was “a terrible decision,” Newsom said. However, “if they’re going to use this framework to put women’s lives at risk, we’re going to use it to save people’s lives here in the state of California.” …

Gavin Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law
2 years, 5 months ago

Gavin Newsom signs California gun bill modeled after Texas abortion law

CNN  

CNN — California Gov. The US Supreme Court in December allowed Texas’ six-week abortion ban to remain in effect, which prompted Newsom, who has been supportive of abortion rights and pro-gun control, to say he was “outraged” by the court’s decision and direct his staff to draft a similar bill to regulate guns. The law, introduced in February, says that …

Texas Supreme Court allows abortion ban to go into effect
2 years, 5 months ago

Texas Supreme Court allows abortion ban to go into effect

The Independent  

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Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions
2 years, 5 months ago

Texas Supreme Court blocks order that resumed abortions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Texas Supreme Court blocked …

Texas judge blocks pre-Roe v Wade abortion ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Texas judge blocks pre-Roe v Wade abortion ban

Al Jazeera  

Abortion performed up to the sixth week of pregnancy can now resume in Texas at some clinics, US legal groups say. A judge in Texas has blocked officials from enforcing a dormant 1925 abortion ban that the US state’s Republican attorney general said was back in effect after the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedure …

Judge temporarily blocks Texas AG Ken Paxton's plan to immediately enforce pre-Roe abortion ban
2 years, 5 months ago

Judge temporarily blocks Texas AG Ken Paxton's plan to immediately enforce pre-Roe abortion ban

Salon  

"Abortions up to six weeks of pregnancy can temporarily resume in Texas, judge rules" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. "It is a relief that this Texas state court acted so quickly to block this deeply harmful …

Texas race tests abortion’s resonance with Democratic voters
2 years, 7 months ago

Texas race tests abortion’s resonance with Democratic voters

Associated Press  

SAN ANTONIO — By the time Dr. Hector Gonzalez arrived in Laredo, Texas, in 2001, the last abortion clinic had already closed. But he’s facing the stiffest challenge of his career on Tuesday in a runoff election against progressive rival Jessica Cisneros, a 28-year-old immigration attorney who supports abortion access. “National trends are not set by one election and not …

Oklahoma Governor Signs Texas-Style Ban On Most Abortions
2 years, 7 months ago

Oklahoma Governor Signs Texas-Style Ban On Most Abortions

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a Texas-style abortion ban on Tuesday that prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, part of a nationwide push in GOP-led states hopeful that the conservative U.S. Supreme Court will uphold new restrictions. A similar bill approved in Texas last year led to a dramatic reduction in …

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