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Subsequently, she filed a suit against the State of Texas, alongside four other women who joined the suit in March 2023. The New York Times reported that the case was the first time that a pregnant woman took legal action against an abortion ban since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 in the decision of Dobbs v.
Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a group which uses graphic imagery of aborted fetuses in protest against abortion. [ 29 ] Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America , a social welfare, nonprofit organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the United States by supporting anti-abortion politicians, primarily women, through its ...
It shows that the rate of maternal deaths in Texas rose 33% between 2019 and 2023 even as the national rate fell by 7.5%. A New Imperative. Texas’ abortion law is under review this legislative ...
A study published in 2024 shows that Texas held the highest rape-related pregnancies of all the states with total abortion bans. An estimated 26,000 became pregnant between July 2022 and January ...
Jessen's career as an activist began in 1991, when she was 14, after her adoptive mother, Diana DePaul, told Jessen she was born to a 17-year-old girl, during a failed abortion attempt. Jessen has since campaigned against abortion, saying "It's more comfortable for people to think of abortion as a political decision, or a right. But I am not a ...
Texas has the highest percentage of women without health insurance in the U.S., the outlet reported. In Houston, police have managed to identify a parent in four of the six abandoned baby cases in ...
Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. [1] There are nominally exceptions to save the mother's life, or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful pregnancies do not explicitly constitute an exception.
Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s abortion documentary “Zurawski v Texas” garnered the inaugural Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons International Film Festival.