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From our ED: “For the state to require a burial or cremation is beyond comprehension.”
On December 12, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced a federal lawsuit against a new Department of State Health Services rule set to go into effect on December 19. The rule that would require the clinics and hospitals to bury or cremate embryonic and fetal...
Testimony to DSHS from our Board President
On November 9, Jane's Due Process attended a public hearing on the proposed DSHS fetal remains rule. This rule would require the cremation or burial of fetal tissue from miscarriages and abortions. Our Board President, Marilyn Robertson, came to Austin from Dallas to...
Personal Memories of Phyllis Schlafly
By Tina Hester, Executive Director of Jane’s Due Process Updated on 09/07/16 with edits from the version published on Rewire. In 1993, long before sustained public campaigns to destigmatize abortion, I outed myself as a woman who’d had an abortion to conservative...
Back to School: Know Your Rights as a Pregnant or Parenting Teen
Even if you are under 18, it is still your right to decide what to do about your pregnancy. You are not alone; in 2011, almost 60,000 teenagers in Texas found out that they were pregnant. If you are pregnant, you have three options: abortion, adoption, or parenting....
Catch 22: Parental Consent Laws and Legally Disabling Teen Mothers
By Rosann Mariappuram and Morgan Shelburne Rosann and Morgan are the president and vice-president of UT Law's Law Student Students for Reproductive Justice chapter. They are both JDP hotline volunteers, and Rosann is this summer's JDP legal intern. When a teen has a...
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt SCOTUS Decision: Protecting the Dignity of all Texans Accessing Abortion Care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2016 For media interviews, contact: Tina Hester, Executive Director, (512) 450-4899 Susan Hays, Legal Counsel, (214) 557-4819 Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt SCOTUS Decision: Protecting the Dignity of all Texans Accessing Abortion...
Justice For Texas Teens – The Global Fight for the Rights of Children Begins at Home
This article was originally published on the A Is For blog. We thank Martha Plimpton for writing such a thoughtful and supportive piece. Earlier this month, Paraguay’s restrictive abortion laws received global attention with the case of a child who had been raped and...
Getting a judicial bypass in Texas
This blog was originally posted on the Children & the Law Blog: A Publication of the Southwest Juvenile Defender Center. It was authored by Camille Van Kote, who is a law student at University of Houston Law Center and a Jane's Due Process hotline volunteer....
The Devastating Consequences of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions
This article was originally posted on the Alliance for Justice blog. Emily Rooke-Ley February 29, 2016 On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments inWhole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, arguably the most significant reproductive rights case since Planned...
What Crisis Pregnancy Centers Aren’t Telling Their Patients
This piece originally appeared on Generation Progress and can be found here. Editor’s note: Names have been changed to protect the identities of the sources used in this article. Jessica was 16 years old when she discovered she was pregnant and decided she wanted an...