News

 

2015

• Press Release: Texas Courthouses Ill-Equipped to Handle Constitutionally Required Judicial Bypass Process for Minors
• Survey Results: Texas Courthouses Ill-Equipped to Handle Constitutionally Required Judicial Bypass Process for Minors

 

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2014

• “Gulf Residents Are Already Turning to DIY Abortions” (July 7, 2014)
• “In Texas, Less Progress on Reducing Teen Pregnancy” (July 6, 2014)
• “Limited Abortion Access Endangers South Texas Women” (June 30, 2014)
• “The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas” (June 27, 2014)
• “One Year Later: Texas After the Filibuster Stands Stronger Than Ever for Reproductive Justice” (June 25, 2014)
• “To Protect Young People’s Health, Protect Their Confidentiality” (June 24, 2014)
• “Twitter analysis shows not all Texans want abortion rights limited” (June 24, 2014)
• “A Whole Woman’s Health patient talks about her frustration with Texas politics” (June 23, 2014)
• “A Patient at Whole Woman’s Health of San Antonio Talks About Making Decisions for Herself” (June 19, 2014)
• “Clinic official: Coastal Birth Control Center stops offering abortions” (June 10, 2014)
• “An Abortion Access Crisis Behind East Texas’ ‘Pine Curtain’” (June 3, 2014)
• “80 Percent of Young Teens Have No Sexual Education Before Having Sex” (April 8, 2014)
• “How Texas’ anti-abortion law affects the poor” (Mar. 9, 2014)
• “We Won’t Forget: The End of Safe, Legal Abortion Care in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley [Video]” (Mar. 7, 2014)
• “Two Texas Reproductive Health Clinics Close, a Harbinger of a Coming Access Crisis” (Mar. 5, 2014)
• “Honest Numbers? Nelson Spins Texas Health Care” (Feb. 28, 2014)
• “We Deserve Better: Reproductive Health Care in Crisis in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley [Video]” (Feb. 27, 2014)
• “Texas’ New Abortion Law is Driving Women to Extremes” (Feb. 25, 2014)
• “Why Does Everyone—From Pastors to Progressives—Doom Teen Mothers to Failure?” (Jan. 23, 2014)
• “In Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, a Reproductive Health-Care Crisis Goes From Bad to Worse” (Jan. 22, 2014)
• “Anti-abortion pregnancy centers thrive in Texas as real clinics close” (Jan. 2, 2014)

2013

• “A Birth-Control Comeback: The IUD” (Dec. 16, 2013)
• “After Budget Cuts, Texas Family Planning Program Serving 77 Percent Fewer Clients” (Nov. 21, 2013)
• “Report: Texas’ Family Planning Cuts Are a Human Rights Violation” (Nov. 13, 2013)
• “Texas Abortion Clinics Cancel Dozens of Appointments as HB 2 Takes Effect” (Nov. 1, 2013)
• “Abortion clinics shut down throughout Texas” (Nov. 1, 2013)
• “What Now? What Next?” (July 26, 2013): An in-depth story on the ramifications of the new restrictive anti-abortion law, HB2.
• “New abortion law could leave patients across Texas with few options” (July 20, 2013) Dallas Morning News story on the impact of women’s options following the abortion law.
• “Need An Abortion In Texas? Don’t Be Poor” (May 8, 2013): The Texas Observer reports on the Lilith Fund and the rise in barriers to abortion access within the state.
• “A Pill Available in Mexico Is a Texas Option for Abortion” (July 13, 2013): We may need to train more ER doctors to handle the consequences of restricting access.
• “How Texas’ Proposed Abortion Restrictions Stack Up” (July 3, 2013): An interactive chart by the Texas Tribune on how Texas’ proposed abortion bills compare to other states.
• “State Blackmail Over Health Care Funding?” (June 10, 2013): Is Women’s health funding disappearing? The Austin Chronicle reports on Texas legislation and funding for women’s services in Texas.
• “Pogo Stick” (June 13, 2013): Houston Chronicle’s editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson on the current state of women’s reproductive rights
• “The Start of an Extra Special Session” (July 1, 2013): Carolyn Jones reports in the The Texas Observer on the start of an additional special session and the anti-abortion bills up for a second round of debate
• “Texas Lawmakers Seek to Close ‘Loopholes’ in Minors’ Access to Abortion” (May 3, 2013) RH Reality Check brings to light the mission of some Texas lawmakers to close existing ‘loopholes’ in minors’ access to abortion
• “Bad Bill: Reducing Access to Abortion” (April 15, 2013): State Rep. Bill Callegari (R-Houston) introduced House Bill 2343 in April 2013 that will reduce access to abortion
• Ella emergency contraception effective up to five (5) days after unprotected sex can be ordered online and delivered to the privacy of your home by next day shipping.

2012 and earlier:

• An innovative Texas teen parenting programs may be more effective birth control than traditional sex education or abstinence campaigns, as reported by USA Today.
• Policy brief on reproductive health services and the new health care law.
• There is a new issue of the Guttmacher Policy Review.
• Article from The Nation on women near the U.S.-Mexico border going to Mexico for abortions rather than face the difficulties that surround the procedure in the U.S.
• The Austin-American Statesman on Seton Hospitals giving up control of clinic for women with high risk pregnancies because the services it provides are incompatible with Catholic Church doctrine.
• The FDA approves a new emergency contraceptive that can be taken up to five days after sex, from the New York Times.
• The Texas Tribune reports on a state senator’s request for an Attorney General’s opinion on whether keeping Planned Parenthood from participating in the Women’s Health Program is constitutional.
• The Texas Health and Human Services Commission finds that a family planning program for low income women saves Texas over $40,000,000 per year, as reported by the Austin Chronicle.
• Mother Jones article summaraizing birth control statistics.
• FDA staff recommend approval of a new emergency contraception drug that can be taken up to 5 days after sexual activity.
• Survey results from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
• USA Today reports on a new survey that finds teens are increasingly accepting of unmarried pregnancy and motherhood.
• The New York Times reports on the trend of increasing state level abortion restrictions.
• New study from the University of Chicago Medical Center on how effective alternatives to parental involvement really are in states with parental involvement laws.
• Austin City Council passes an ordinance requiring “pregnancy centers” that do not offer abortion or contraception referrals to post the fact outside their front doors, from the Austin-American Statesman.
• The Dallas Morning News reports on a man jailed for threatening to use deadly force to shut down a Dallas abortion clinic.
• The Austin City Council will consider an ordinance requiring “crisis pregnancy centers” to post the fact that they do not provide abortion or birth control information by thier front entrances, from the Austin Chronicle.
• Amnesty International urges the U.S. to confront our “shocking” maternal mortality rate and the disproportionate harms suffered by women of color and women in poverty.
• Discussion of youth and minority distrust of government and medical establishment messages about birth control, from National Women’s Law Center.
• The man who shot and killed a Kansas doctor who provided abortions is convicted of first degree murder.
• National Partnership for Women and Families discusses a recent study on pregnancy risk factors among Mexican-American siblings of teen mothers.
• Newsweek discusses the growing awareness of the role that reproductive coercion plays in dating violence among teenagers.
• New study from Guttmacher institute examines the rise in teen pregnancy rates.  Texas has the 4th highest teen pregnancy rate of any state.
• Texas now requires all pregnant women to be tested for HIV in their third trimester (unless they object) and receive antiretroviral drugs as appropriate, from the Austin American Statesman.
• Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are spreading through the country and teenage girls have the highest rates of infection, says the CDC.
• The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports on a Texas state legislator seeking an Attorney General’s opinion on whether organizations that dispense RU-486 are covered by a state law that requires medical facilities that perform more than 50 abortions a year to be specially licensed.
• The FDA approves a new HPV vaccine for preventing cervical cancer in women and girls, and expands approval of Gardasil for preventing genital warts in men and boys.
• Study by the Guttmacher Institute finds that more than 70,000 women die annually from unsafe abortions.
• A new report from the Guttmacher Institute finds that both abortions and unintended pregnancies have declined worldwide as contraceptive use has increased.
• A study sugests a link between conservative religious beliefs and high teen birth rates, from MSNBC.
• The National Partnership for Women and Families reports on a speech by the head of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
• The Guttmacher Institute reports on the reproductive health needs of refugees and displaced people.
• Houston Chronicle report on teen pregnancy study: Houston leads the nation in births to mothers under age 15.
• A new report from the National Women’s Law Center: Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation
• The Dallas Morning News on new study saying Dallas leads the nation in repeat teen births.
• The Nation discusses coercive adoption promotion at crisis pregnancy centers.
• Harvard Review of Psychiatry questions the existence of “Abortion Trauma Syndrome,” from Feminists for Choice.
• Video about violence directed to health care providers from The Rachel Maddow Show.
• Esquire profiles Dr. Warren Hern, a Colorado abortion provider.
• Walter Cronkite’s Push for Abortion and Homosexuality as explained by an anti-abortion website
• Updated: FDA aproval includes single-dose emergency contraception.  The FDA approves a single-pill emergency contraceptive to be sold over the counter to 17 year olds.
  
• Article describing how abusers use pregnancy to control their partners, from Alternet.
• Forbes.com on teen pregnancy among foster youth.
• Obiturary for Gretchen Dyer, founder of the Texas Equal Access fund and Jane’s Due Process supporter.
• Online debate and poll between abortion rights supporters and opponents, from PBS.
• CNN on the effect the recession is having on teen dating violence.
• Article discussing Jane’s Due Process from Salon.com.
• The Wall Street Journal discusses funding challenges for teen pregnancy prevention programs.
• The Fort Worth Star-Telegram on proposed legislation to require all Texas women seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound procedure.
• NPR on barriers to contraception and common reasons for unintended pregnancy.
• The LA Times on the morning after pill and the federal court decision that may soon make it available to 17 year olds without a perscription.
• A progam aimed at preventing second pregnancies among teen mothers is profiled by the Chicago Tribune.
• Study of infidelity, trust and condom use among Latino youth in dating relationships from the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
• The Washington Post on a recent federal ruling ordering the FDA to make the morning after pill available to 17-year-olds.
• The Austin Chronicle summarizes sex education bills pending in the 81st Texas Legislature.
• Self magazine on a new survey that explores  “why so many young women end up botching their birth control.”
• Illdoctrine.com explores teens’ opinions on dating violence and responses to the Chris Brown/Rihanna story within the context of the hip hop movement.
• The Chicago Tribune on how the financial crisis is affecting women’s reproductive choices.
• Radio program Latino USA discusses teen pregnancy, the relatively high teen pregnancy rate among Latinas and individual stories of how teen pregnancy has affected people’s lives.
• A new survey finds broad public support for reproductive rights.
• SafePlace in Austin receives a grant to help prevent teen dating violence.
• The Healthy Women Healthy Families coalition invites all Texas women to fill out its survey.
• San Antonio Express News editorial on latest Texas teen birth rate statistics.
• Two abortion-related bills pre-filed for the 2009 legislative session, noted in the Austin Chronicle.
• New York Times article on prevalence of off-label drugs and home remedies in self-induced abortion attempts.
• Article on healthcare disparities on the border from Minority Nurse.
• Jane’s Due Process founding board member Susan Hays featured in ABA Journal article on representing children from the raided FLDS compound in El Dorado.
• Forbes magazines quotes Jane’s Due Process on Title IX and educational opportunties for pregnant teens.

 

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