Yesterday an all-Republican-appointed three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the mifepristone case, and the likely outcome appears bleak. Last year, a rightwing organization and several anti-choice OB-GYN’s sued the FDA in Amarillo to reverse...
A countersuit has been filed by two of three women who were named in a wrongful death lawsuit by a man in Galveston County, who alleged they conspired to help his then-wife obtain an abortion. This lawsuit was the first filed in the aftermath of sweeping anti-abortion...
Before Roe v. Wade was overturned, Texans had been living under a de facto abortion ban for months. The consequences of that ban were on full display in the U.S. Senate when Amanda Zurawski testified about her harrowing ordeal that should never have happened. Today...
Last week, the Supreme Court stayed two rulings restricting access to mifepristone, a medication that can terminate an early pregnancy. In practical terms, that means the abortion pill remains available without restrictions – for now. Rightwing groups had been pinning...
The extremism that Republicans have embraced regarding abortion is incredibly unpopular. And their latest attempts to use the courts to ban medication abortion are getting further and further out of step with the general public. New polling from Ipsos shows that only...
After two conflicting rulings, a showdown over medication abortion appears likely at the Supreme Court. Late Friday, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling that invalidates the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, a medication that can terminate an early pregnancy. The...
With a major ruling about mifepristone possibly happening this week, an audience at South by Southwest got their chance to view a new timely documentary, Plan C, about the abortion pill, and the advocates and providers that are trying to increase its access and...
Last week saw a whirlwind of headlines regarding abortion in Texas. Even with multiple abortion bans, the state is not done trying to limit access to abortion care. First, there was a lawsuit from the Center for Reproductive Rights filed on behalf of five women and...
The first lawsuit challenging the Texas abortion ban was filed in Austin today. The lawsuit, Zurawski v. State of Texas, was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of five women who were denied abortions in Texas, as well as two medical providers. In...