Tag: Texas abortion law

In Zurawski v. State of Texas, court refuses to provide clarity on exceptions to state abortion bans.

Extremists’ latest tactic: Intimidating pregnant people traveling out of state for abortion care.

Number of women harmed by the state’s abortion bans continues to grow as case heads to the Texas Supreme Court November 28.

Court rules a citizen not harmed can’t sue doctor who violated Texas’s S.B. 8 abortion ban.

This NPR feature highlights the harm being caused by Texas’s extreme abortion ban, which has been in effect for six months. The law, S.B. 8, bans abortion at approximately six weeks of pregnancy and has been allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court to stay in effect. Molly Duane, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive […]

Panic and chaos as patients are turned away in droves.

Citing threats to constitutional rights and the rule of law—as well as harms to health and wellbeing—experts in constitutional law, health care, government, and civil rights filed amicus briefs in support of two cases challenging Texas’s extreme abortion ban.

Denouncing the Texas law as “a strong attack on women’s freedom,” the European Parliament passes an “urgency resolution” and calls on the U.S. to protect abortion access.

Federal district court temporarily blocks ban in DOJ lawsuit, accusing Texas of pursuing "an unprecedented and aggressive scheme to deprive its citizens of a significant and well-established constitutional right."

The lawsuit defending the physician also asks the district court to declare the Texas law, known as S.B. 8, unconstitutional. The ban has ended almost all abortion access in Texas since it took effect on September 1.