ORR Blocking Jane from Receiving Abortion Care
Note: For an update on the Jane Doe case, see our posts from Oct. 16, Oct. 20, Oct. 25 (when Jane got her abortion!), & Dec. 7! Texas and the United States Must Respect the Dignity of Immigrant Teenagers — Not Force Them to Continue Unwanted Pregnancies The...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always been a champion of reproductive rights. She’s become a pop culture icon, with a biography titled Notorious RBG. Recently, she coined another catch phrase at a speaking engagement at Georgetown University. Justice Ginsburg was asked...
What the Texas Legislature is Trying to Do Will Make You Mad
If you’re familiar with Jane’s Due Process, you already know the obstacles pregnant teens face when seeking legal help and accessing abortion care. If they don’t have supportive parents – or if they don’t have parents, period – they...
Roe v. Wade: Then, Now, and What if?
by Savanna Fox In late 1969 a young woman in Texas was pregnant, and didn’t want to be. She wanted to get an abortion, but at this time, abortion was illegal in Texas. She talked to some attorneys, and they filed a case challenging the laws that made abortion illegal....
Happy Anniversary, WWH v. Hellerstedt!
One year ago today, we celebrated the Supreme Court decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt that struck down House Bill 2, Texas’s omnibus abortion bill that passed in 2013 despite Wendy Davis’s filibuster. We fought against HB2 every step of...From the Blog
Texans — Vote NO on Proposition 15October 15, 2025Young people deserve access to comprehensive healthcare, including mental and emergency …
Statement on SB 33 going into effect in TexasSeptember 1, 2025SB 33, Texas’s ban on municipal funding for abortion support, became effective today, …
June 2025 Impact and UpdatesJuly 31, 2025Here’s what we accomplished in June: Answered 554 calls and texts to our helplines …