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A state district court judge will hear over a dozen challenges to Texas’ abortion law Wednesday
BY REESE OXNER at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 10, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A state district judge on Wednesday morning will hear arguments from abortion providers challenging Texas’ restrictive abortion law in what could be the first court hearing over
Abortion providers and gun rights advocates are “strange bedfellows” in fight to strike down Texas’ new abortion law
BY REESE OXNER AND JAMES BARRAGÁN at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 2, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Abortion-rights advocates have found an unexpected ally in their fight to overturn Texas’ controversial abortion law: gun rights advocates, fearful that the same novel mechanism employed
Texas’ abortion restriction law cut procedures by half in September, study finds
BY NEELAM BOHRA at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 2, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The number of abortions performed in Texas plummeted by half in September, which is the month the state’s new abortion law restricting the procedure went into effect,
Here’s what U.S. Supreme Court justices had to say about Texas’ abortion law
BY REESE OXNER at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Supreme Court took up Texas’ restrictive new abortion law Monday, two months after it went into effect. The justices questioned attorneys representing abortion providers, Texas
“A pivotal day”: Texas abortion law’s Supreme Court hearings spur hope for some, fear for others
BY ABBY LIVINGSTON AND BETHANY IRVINE at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. WASHINGTON — The dividing line in front of the U.S. Supreme Court was both invisible and unmissable. It extended
Former ACLU lawyer Rochelle Garza decides to run for attorney general after redistricting upends congressional campaign
BY PATRICK SVITEK NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Democrat Rochelle Garza, a former lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union from the Rio Grande Valley, is running for attorney general after redistricting complicated her campaign to succeed retiring U.S.
Get updates on the U.S. Supreme Court hearings on Texas’ near-total abortion ban
BY REESE OXNER at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two high-profile legal challenges to Texas’ near-total abortion ban that prohibits the procedure as early as six weeks, which is before
How today’s near-total abortion ban in Texas was 20 years in the making.
BY KEVIN REYNOLDS at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 1, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Here is a list of Texas laws since 2000 that restrict abortion access. 2000 – First parental notification law goes into effect Doctors must notify a parent
