By refusing to expand Medicaid, Texas Republicans keep making life harder for poor Texans. Case in point: what’s going on with postpartum coverage. Last week, reports emerged that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would be denying an application from...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services held the Faith + Works Black Maternal Health Forum on Saturday, May 21, at Texas Southern University with Houston elected officials, faith leaders, providers, doulas, midwives, community members, and more to decrease...
After a federal judge issued a temporary injunction against Senate Bill 8, the extreme anti-abortion law that went into effect in Texas on September 1, the appeal from the state came almost immediately. And within less than 48 hours the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
The following is a conversation with Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, a Board Certified OB/GYN and Complex Family Planning specialist who provides birth and abortion care in Texas. She serves on the board of directors of Physicians for Reproductive Health and Texas Equal Access...
Late Wednesday evening, federal judge Robert Pitman temporarily blocked Senate Bill 8, the extreme anti-abortion bill that went into effect in Texas on September 1. In his injunction, Pitman offered a scathing rebuttal to the Supreme Court for allowing SB 8 to stand....
On Monday, the Texas Supreme Court denied Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Health Services and others request for a partial lift to continue litigation in other trial court proceedings. This is just the latest in the ongoing legal battle on Senate Bill 8, Texas’s...
Television writer and producer David Simon has announced that he will not shoot his upcoming series in Texas due to its extreme abortion law. “I’m turning in scripts next month on an HBO non-fiction miniseries based on events in Texas, but I can’t and won’t ask...
314 Action, a political action committee that helps elect scientists, announced Friday they would be launching a campaign to expose Gov. Greg Abbott’s anti-choice donors. The multimillion-dollar effort will target three of Abbott’s donors; Susan Gurney and...
It’s a lesson that everyone learns from a young age: actions have consequences. In Texas, Republican lawmakers are realizing that their extreme anti-abortion bill, which took effect September 1, is causing major ramifications in the business world. For years,...