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Senate Approves Omnibus Abortion Bill HB 2
1:30 a.m.: Seventeen days after Wendy Davis’ dramatic 11-hour filibuster, Texas Republicans finally got their anti-abortion bill on Friday. Just two minutes before midnight, the Texas Senate passed the...
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Funniest and Craziest Quotes from the Texas Abortion Debate (So Far)
Things have moved so fast and with such dramatic fashion during the roaring abortion debate at the Capitol that we’ve almost lost track of all the unbelievable things people have said over the past few...
View ArticleObserver Radio Episode 33: Heroic Superintendents, Horny Toads and New...
Staff writer Patrick Michels discusses his story from the November issue about superintendents promising to save struggling school districts. The post Observer Radio Episode 33: Heroic Superintendents,...
View ArticleObserver Radio Episode 35: Texas’ Anti-Abortion Law, CSCOPE and an Invasion...
Freelance writer Saul Elbein stops by discuss his story about America's conspiracy theory culture. Then he accuses us of being lizard people. No, seriously. The post Observer Radio Episode 35: Texas’...
View ArticleLawsuit to be Filed Against Most Draconian Part of New Texas Abortion Law
Update at 5:54 p.m.: We now have the official court filing of this suit. Read it for yourself. Original post published at 1:40 p.m.: This afternoon in federal district court, a coalition of...
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Observer Radio Episode 71: Cashing In on Higher Education
Jen ReelThe Everest Institute sign can be seen by motorists traveling U.S. 290 in Austin. The post Observer Radio Episode 71: Cashing In on Higher Education appeared first on The Texas Observer.
View ArticleIn House Bill 2 Trial, Pro-Lifers Can’t Lose
House Bill 2, the sweeping anti-abortion bill shuttering clinics around the state, emerged last summer from a paroxysm of legislative and popular uproar—some of the most unusual events the Capitol had...
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Observer Radio Episode 79: Tackling Texas’ Rape Kit Backlog
Jen ReelA criminalist tests a sexual assault kit in the Houston Forensic Science Center lab. The post Observer Radio Episode 79: Tackling Texas’ Rape Kit Backlog appeared first on The Texas Observer.
View ArticleFormer Abortion Clinic Becomes Public Education Nonprofit
The Whole Woman’s Health abortion clinic in Austin has been closed for a year. Back in July 2014, the organization stopped providing services at its flagship facility due to Texas’ House Bill 2, which...
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Inside San Antonio’s New $3 Million Abortion Facility
Dr. Alan Braid began performing abortions in San Antonio in 1978, just five years after Roe v. Wade. He’s been around long enough to appreciate how dramatically things have changed in the last few...
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Texas Lawmakers Aren’t Actually Supposed to Try to Make Things Worse, Right?
courtesy of demos.orgTexas’ voter ID law is a solution in search of a problem. But what’s voting really got to do with this whole democracy thing, anyway? Government by the people, for the people....
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Reckoning With Rosie
On a June afternoon in McAllen in 1978, Diana Rivera, posing as a young pregnant woman, walked into the home of a local midwife. At Rivera’s side was a female friend, who was wearing a small, concealed...
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Walking the Line at the Last Abortion Clinic in the Rio Grande Valley
Melissa Arjona volunteers as an escort at the Whole Woman’s Health clinic in McAllen, where anti-abortion protesters try to coerce patients into visiting a nearby crisis pregnancy center instead. For...
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Texas Anti-Abortion Law Headed to the Supreme Court
Patrick Michels2013: Pro-choice activists in orange chant and dance in the Capitol rotunda during debate over HB 2. Anti-abortion demonstrators wore blue to signal their support of the bill. Texas’...
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Report: In Texas, Hundreds of Thousands Have Attempted to Self-Induce Abortions
Patrick MichelsNew university research shows that between about two and four percent of Texas women have tried to end a pregnancy outside of a clinical setting. Experts expect that percentage to rise...
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The Year of Uterus Versus Them
Patrick MichelsTwo years ago, amid massive protests at the Capitol, Texas lawmakers passed one of the country’s most restrictive anti-abortion laws. Now, we’re seeing its negative effects play out...
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‘It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way’
When it takes up Texas’ omnibus anti-abortion law, House Bill 2, next year, the Supreme Court will make a crucial decision that will affect abortion access and reproductive rights across the country....
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The Texas Abortion Case, Explained
Updated February 3, 2016: This story has been updated to reflect the new name of the HB2 case: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Original Story: Today marks 43 years since the U.S. Supreme Court...
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‘Trapped’ an Emotional Look at Abortion Providers, Patients
Anyone paying attention to the politics of abortion in the United States during the past few years has probably picked up on a theme: the procedure is becoming harder to get, especially for people who...
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Trust Me, Trust Women
They are the multitudes of people — parents, professionals, students, lawyers, doctors, teachers, babysitters — who have chosen abortion because it was the right decision for them. They had abortions...
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