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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....
How is JDP doing in 2017?
Graphics & Content by Zoë Fay-Stindt What has JDP been up to? In the past six months, Jane’s Due Process has been pretty busy. Since January, our staff and volunteers have fielded over 515 calls from people concerned about their pregnancies and assisted 102 teens...
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 the way, since it...
Volunteer Interview: Isabel
By Literary Women in Action In our newest Jane’s Due Process Volunteer Interview, we talk with Isabel—a 31-year-old marketing professional and former museum educator. A native of Washington State, Isabel enjoys photography, birding, visiting museums, and macaroni and...
Who gets a judicial bypass?
By Amanda Bennett, Client Services Manager In 2016, Jane's Due Process connected 182 minors with an attorney to apply for judicial bypass for an abortion in Texas. The stories of these minors - Janes, as we call them because of their legal status as Jane Does - are as...
IUD Explained
Illustration by Jim Cooke, from http://jezebel.com/a-former-abortion-doula-explains-why-an-iud-might-be-ri-1788962651 By Zoë Fay-Stindt I wish I had gotten my IUD sooner. I’d been on the pill for eight years before I had one inserted, and didn’t know much about them...
What is the “Global Gag Rule”?
By Literary Women in Action One of President Trump’s very first actions as President was to re-instate The Global Gag Rule. What is the Global Gag Rule, what is its history, and what does it mean for women worldwide? What is the Global Gag Rule? Broadly, the Global...