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A federal judge in McAllen on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Starr County officials brought by Lizelle Gonzalez, a South Texas woman who was unlawfully charged with murder after a self-induced abortion.
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A new national study ranks Texas among the lowest-performing states for women’s health outcomes. Only Mississippi ranked worse.
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The decision brings abortion back into the political limelight as a major controversy, just months before the presidential election.
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The study tracked infant deaths that occurred in the year following Senate Bill 8's passage.
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The board's guidance is aimed at providing some clarity to physicians working within the narrow emergency medical exception to Texas' abortion ban.
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The Texas Medical Board is meeting Friday to consider rules to guide doctors on the exceptions in the state’s abortion ban. The rules could clarify when doctors can legally perform emergency abortions, but confusion and fear over prosecution persists.
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Denton mother Caroline Antoun asked the court to weigh whether the embryos she and her husband conceived through in vitro fertilization should be treated as people, not property.
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The court said that the challengers, a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, had no right to be in court at all since neither the organization nor its members could show they had suffered any concrete injury.
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Texas Democrats wrapped up their biennial convention in El Paso Saturday with a mix of hope and pragmatism about the party’s future – while also warning attendees that Texas could slip towards authoritarianism if Republicans remain in power.
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Support for abortion rights and public schools will be major themes of the three-day gathering that kicks of Thursday. But the gathering comes on the heels of a controversial executive order on immigration many Democrats oppose.
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Southwest Airlines is going back to federal court in hopes of reversing an $800,000 award to a flight attendant who says she was fired for her anti-abortion views.
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The court ruled against 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions, saying the medical exceptions in the law were broad enough.