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Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.

It’s been two years since Texas implemented new health education standards for students, but advocates say the opt-in instruction still isn’t comprehensive.

Texas officials sued the organization last year in federal court for more than $1.8 billion, claiming it committed Medicaid fraud when it filed reimbursements at a time when the state was seeking to expel it from the program.

A new Texas law would stop transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming medical care. Texas doctors said this is already hurting their work and their patients.

In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson decision, Texans have flooded into surrounding states to seek abortion. But experts believe thousands have not been able to access the procedure.

Planned Parenthood says it will provide abortions out of an RV-based clinic in southern Illinois by the end of the year. It will reduce travel time for some patients coming from surrounding states.

Some clinics are relocating to “haven states” where abortion will continue to be legal. Others are investing in sexual and reproductive health efforts beyond abortion access.

The nonprofit offers reproductive health care services like birth control and STI screening and treatment. Abortion services made up less than 5% of the total patient visits in Central Texas in 2020.

Experts told The Texas Tribune that Thomas’ opinion signals an openness from the court to reconsidering other settled legal precedents related to rights the court has ruled are protected by the constitution.

Texas is one of more than a dozen conservative-led states that have previously passed so-called trigger laws designed to end abortion access for nearly all residents if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Abortions in Texas fell by 60% in the first month under the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. in decades, according to new figures that for the first time reveal a full accounting of the immediate impact.

Sex educators in North Texas worry the new sex education standards in Texas schools are not doing enough to prevent unwanted pregnancies.