Tag: Abortion laws in Texas

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered to testify in abortion lawsuit after evading subpoena!

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A federal judge ordered the Texas attorney general Ken Paxton To testify in an abortion rights lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman had previously set aside the subpoena, which Paxton had fled his home to avoid receiving. The video above is from a previous story. At a hearing last week, attorneys representing abortion rights nonprofits asked Bateman to reconsider and asked Paxton to testify. Bateman accepted their proposal on Tuesday. These nonprofits are called abortion funds, The lawsuit was filed in August, to obtain guarantees that they will not face…

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Gov. Greg Abbott, democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke expected to discuss immigration, gun reform, abortion at debate in Edinburg!

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Edinburgh, Texas (KTRK) – Governor Greg Abbott will face Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke on Friday in the first and likely only debate between the two candidates. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburgh. O’Rourke will hold a pre-debate press conference on Friday afternoon, with family members of the victims of the Ovaldi Collegiate School shooting. These family members made the 10-hour bus trip from Ovaldi to Edinburgh, but travel is nothing new to them. They also went to Austin to urge…

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Texas abortion law: League City family in ‘nightmare’ situation after learning baby likely to not survive pregnancy!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Joey soon turns to heartbreak for a League City woman and her family. The woman’s sister explained, “She doesn’t just deal with the fact that she can’t grieve or mourn, that that’s what happens to her child, she also has to deal with the physical[side].” We agreed not to reveal the family’s identity given the personal nature of the situation and the family’s fear of backlash. On a recent ultrasound, a 25-year-old woman, excited to be pregnant with her first child at 15 weeks, found devastating…

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Texas abortion: Republican Sen. Robert Nichols says he will support new rape exceptions for procedure!

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State Republican Senator Robert Nichols of Jacksonville said Friday that he would support changing abortion laws in Texas to allow rape victims to obtain the procedure legally. The video above is from a previous story. “If I get a chance to vote for a rape exception, I’ll vote yes,” the East Texas senator said during a panel of Republican lawmakers at the 2022 Texas Tribune. “I think instead of telling women what to do, we should show our support for the women of this state.” Nichols is one of the…

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Fetal personhood: Does a fetus count in the carpool lane? Texas’ abortion law creates new legal questions!

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When a pregnant North Texas woman was stopped for driving alone in a crowded driveway, she protested. “I just felt like there were two of us [the car] “I was getting the wrong ticket,” driver Brandy Button told the Dallas Morning News in July. Bouton argued that under Texas abortion laws, which took effect after the US Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion, a fetus is considered a living organism. She said the same should be true when it comes to state traffic laws. “I’m not trying…

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Texas abortion laws: Gov. Greg Abbott says rape victims can take Plan B despite limited access for state’s poorest people!

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On Friday, Governor Greg Abbott told the Dallas Morning News that rape victims can take emergency contraception, such as Plan B, to prevent pregnancy. With abortion now banned in Texas, even in cases of incest or rape, the governor has recommended the use of emergency contraception to ensure a rape victim does not get pregnant. But for low-income people in Texas, emergency contraception isn’t widely available, advocates said — a result of the large number of people of childbearing age who are uninsured, and the state’s lack of programs that…

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