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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...
Jane’s Due Process Annual Celebration Austin 2017
Sponsorships and tickets available here. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to our sponsors: Supreme Kacy & Scott O’Hare Jurist Susan Baer & David Nicastro, Rani Clasquin & Eric Harslem, Laura Wood Corman, Dr. Tad Davis & staff at Austin Women’s...
Support JDP and our Flaming Feminist Litigators!
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 why...
Story from Jane: “Kind, Respectful, Caring”
(If the video is not loading, you can view it on youtube here: https://youtu.be/TbJ8VRu457g) Post by Lydia; Video production and Animation by Steven Nelson This week we are happy to share a video with a personal story from a Jane about her experience with Jane’s Due...
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: The Truths and the Lies
By Literary Women in Action; Image from Bust You might have seen billboards or signs along the highway or around your neighborhood. Pregnant? Need Help? Call This Number. “Great!”, you might think. But Crisis Pregnancy Centers aren’t really about helping you as you...
What Happens When You Wait Until College to Talk to Your Mom About Sex
By Lorraine Garcia I am no stranger to teen pregnancy; in fact, you might say it’s a tradition in my family. On both sides. My mom gave birth to me when she was 17. My sister gave birth to my first niece at 19 (and my second niece at 20). My cousin had a baby at 15....
Everything You Didn’t Know About Emergency Contraception
From Literary Women in Action Sometimes our best plans fall apart. Like when a condom breaks, or comes off inside you. Or when we never get around to putting that condom on, despite our best intentions. For those moments, there’s emergency contraception, which can...
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 instead must seek a judicial bypass...
Nexplanon: My Experience Getting the Implant
By Emma I was in a tricky spot. It was mid-May and I was ending my job at the end of the month, which meant my health insurance was ending too. I was starting grad school in the fall and wanted to have birth control all set before then so that I wouldn’t have to worry...
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....