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How Border Policing Harms Undocumented People Seeking Abortion Care
The ACLU’s latest report outlines how interior immigration checkpoints and anti-immigrant state policing trap noncitizens trying to leave Texas for abortion care.
5 Ways Texans Made Our State Better in 2023
In the face of unprecedented attacks, Texans of all backgrounds showed up this year as visionary leaders.
What to Know About the Abortion Case that Could Ban Mifepristone
A baseless lawsuit targeting mifepristone could effectively ban the most commonly used method of abortion — very soon.
What it’s Like to Fight for Abortion Rights, Post-Roe
Abortion rights advocates reflect on their activism post-Dobbs, and the role storytelling still plays in the ongoing fight.
The Roe Draft Signals a Potential New Front in the Already-Raging War Against the LGBTQ Community
This isn’t a “they’re coming for us next” moment. They’ve already come for us, and the fight of our lives is here.
Cruel and Violating: How Texas’ Abortion Law Assaults Our Fundamental Rights
ACLU is fighting Texas abortion laws.
By Paige Alexandria
A New Texas Law Threatens to Eliminate Abortion Access. We’re Suing to Stop It.
SB 8 is not just sinister, it’s unconstitutional.
By Adriana Piñon
Disability Pride Month in a Time of Turmoil in Texas
In the summer of 1990, the first Disability Pride Day was held to celebrate the newly passed Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Since then, July has become Disability Pride Month worldwide.
By Alejandrina Guzman
Real Need for Change in Texas Gets Short Shrift in Gov. Abbott’s State of the State
This week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott delivered his annual State of the State address, a state-mandated speech meant to inform the people of Texas about the governor’s legislative and governing priorities. With more than 37,000 Texans dead from COVID-19, notably Abbott’s agenda did not include a single item to address the pandemic for regular Texans. It offered nothing to help people get vaccines more quickly, support hospitals and schools, nor make nursing homes safer.
By Sarah Labowitz
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