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Federal Lawsuit Seeks to Consolidate Challenges Regarding Texas Abortion Ban
On October 5, the Center filed a lawsuit asking for three suits filed against their client, Dr. Alan Braid, be combined. Braid violated Texas’s abortion ban, S.B 8, which allows private citizens to sue anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Braid commented on his decision to provide […]
What happens when a state bans abortion? If you don’t know, now you know.
The Center is challenging S.B. 8, a Texas law that bans abortion at about six weeks of pregnancy. In this segment from The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah explains the dangers of Texas’s ban and how it disproportionately impacts women of color and those living on low incomes. Watch the segment here: Learn more about Whole Woman’s […]
Abortion Providers Ask Supreme Court to Step in Quickly to Review Texas Law
Both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported on the Center’s second appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Texas’s extreme abortion ban. Both quoted from the filing that claimed since the law went into effect, “Texans are in crisis.” The Washington Post: Abortion providers ask Supreme Court to step in quickly to review […]
Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban
Dr. Alan Braid, one of the plaintiffs in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the Center’s case challenging Texas’s extreme abortion ban, has written an op-ed for The Washington Post titled, “Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban.” The Texas law, S.B. 8, bans abortion care after approximately six weeks of pregnancy and incentivizes individuals—including anti-abortion […]
Provider Explains in Washington Post Op-ed Why He Violated Texas’s Extreme Abortion Ban
Dr. Alan Braid, one of the plaintiffs in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the Center’s case challenging Texas’s extreme abortion ban, has written an op-ed for The Washington Post titled, “Why I violated Texas’s extreme abortion ban.” The Texas law, S.B. 8, bans abortion care after approximately six weeks of pregnancy and incentivizes individuals—including anti-abortion […]
United States: Texas abortion ban upheld
Green Left quoted an interview with Center President and CEO Nancy Northup for DemocracyNow! on Texas’s abortion ban and its provision that allows anyone, including complete strangers, to sue someone who helps a woman obtain an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. “You can just be a person who every day goes outside a woman’s […]
Justice Department sues Texas over six-week abortion ban
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department would sue the state over its abortion ban, S.B. 8.
Fearful of being sued under new law, three of four San Antonio abortion facilities stop offering the procedure
Several Texas-based clinics suspended abortion services after S.B. 8, the Texas law that bans abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, went into effect. The Texas Tribune quoted Center President and CEO Nancy Northup, who said, “Right now, people seeking abortion across Texas are panicking — they have no idea where or when they will be […]
Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson: U.S. Supreme Court Opinion
U.S. Supreme Court opinion issued 09.01.21 that denied an emergency request to block Texas’s radical new abortion ban (S.B. 8), which took effect September 1, 2021.
Supreme Court Asked to Block Texas Law Banning Most Abortions
In this New York Times piece, Center President and CEO Nancy Northup comments about the emergency request made today to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a new Texas abortion ban due to take effect September 1. The Texas law, S.B. 8, would ban abortion care after approximately six weeks of pregnancy. “In less than […]
