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Glengariff Group, Inc., in conjunction with the pro-LGBT rights Equality Texas Foundation, found that support in that age group rose from 53.6% in 2010 to 67.9% in 2013, while within the general population in Texas, support rose from 42.7% to 47.9%. [237] Later polls have found that a majority of Texans support same-sex marriage.
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 put forth a fifth of the 525 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in states across the U.S. last year, according to the Human Rights Council, which released a National State of Emergency for LGBTQ+ ...
Texas, 595 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case that involved the Texas Heartbeat Act, also known as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, a state law that bans abortion once a "fetal heartbeat" [a] is detected, typically six weeks into pregnancy. A unique feature of the Act, and challenges to it, is the delegation of enforcement to any and ...
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.
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.
Here's how LGBTQ+ rights—including gender-affirming care and trans rights—fared in the 2024 election after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States.