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Cain has also targeted abortion funds in Texas and threatened them with criminal prosecution for their violations of Texas's pre–Roe v. Wade abortion statutes. [39] [40] On March 18, 2022, Cain sent cease-and-desist letters to every abortion fund in Texas, demanding that they immediately stop paying for abortions performed in Texas or face ...
The cities of Austin, [19] Dallas, [20] Denton, [21] El Paso, [22] and Houston [23] have enacted resolutions instructing city officials to deprioritize enforcement of the state's abortion laws, but anyone violating the state's abortion laws in those cities remains subject to criminal prosecution by the district attorney (a county official) and ...
Mark Lee Dickson (born August 16, 1985) is an American pastor and anti-abortion advocate. Dickson has become one of the most influential anti-abortion voices in the United States due to his successful campaigning for cities to ban abortion through local "sanctuary city" ordinances.
Texas became the first U.S. state to ban most abortion in the 21st century with the passage of Senate Bill 8 in 2021 and currently has one of the strictest prohibitions on the procedure in the ...
State of Texas is a case heard by the Texas Supreme Court regarding medical exceptions to the state's abortion ban. The lawsuit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights on March 6, 2023. On August 4, 2023, State District Court Judge Jessica Mangrum granted the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction ; the state of Texas appealed this ...
Texas first enacted Senate Bill 8, a six-week abortion ban, in September 2021, nine months before the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade.
Texas law allows abortion only when a woman has a "life-threatening condition" that puts her at risk of death or "substantial loss of a major bodily function," as the state Supreme Court upheld in ...
Mitchell was born and raised in Pennsylvania and is the oldest of seven brothers. [11] He graduated from Wheaton College in 1998 with a B.A., summa cum laude. [12] He then graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an articles editor for the University of Chicago Law Review. [13]