Last week, news arrived that a potential ruling in a case about access to medication abortion would be delayed for two weeks. The headlines about the potential disruption to healthcare that could face forty million Americans are bleak (and maybe even jumping the gun),...
A ruling that could potentially ban mifepristone, a medication that can terminate an early pregnancy, throughout the nation has been pushed back two weeks to give one of the manufacturers time to file a briefing. Last year, the rightwing organization Alliance...
After months of delays (conveniently timed after the November election), Texas has finally published a required report about maternal mortality. The results point to a dispiriting picture for those who give birth in Texas, especially for black women. Last week, the...
In what has become a habitual story over the past two and half years, health-conscious Texans must once again prepare themselves for a surge in COVID-19 cases caused by a contagious new variant that is quickly spreading across the state and country. The BA.5 variant...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made Americans hyper-aware to the risks and consequences of not taking developing pathogens seriously, so the concerning appearance of the monkeypox virus outside its usual confines in Central and West Africa has understandably commanded a...
In a press conference last week after the standard litany of prayers and thoughts was offered, Texas Governor Greg Abbott tried to pass off, once again, the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, and mass shootings in general, as attributable to lone wolves...
Ken Paxton has made no secret over his glee of suing the Biden administration over everything from immigration to LGBTQ workplace protections. But his latest batch of lawsuits all concern one thing: the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. After President Biden first announced a...
Since he began his self-quarantine earlier this week after being exposed to coronavirus, Sen. Ted Cruz has been safe at home, tweeting non-stop and abstaining from votes in the Senate. For a job that makes its own hours and is salaried, that essentially amounts to...
Updated 1:00 p.m. On Wednesday, Houston and Harris County officials announced the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is being canceled due to concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, while a 7-day emergency health declaration will go into effect. "For those of us who...