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Jane’s Due Process featured in the New Yorker!
Photo from Margaret Tablot's New Yorker review of About Abortion Why is it still so hard to get an abortion, 44 years after Roe v. Wade? That's the question that Carol Sanger tackles in her new book, About Abortion, recently reviewed by The New Yorker. In her review,...
STIs & Sexual Health: The Basics
by Lydia Blaisdell Featured image from webcomic by Sarah Winifred Searle Talking about STIs (sexually transmitted infections) is tricky. We live in a culture that tends to obscure and shame straightforward conversations about sexuality. Most people don’t’ realize how...
Talking to Your Parent(s) About Pregnancy and Abortion / Hablando Con Su(s) Padre(s) Sobre un Embarazo y un Aborto
by Jennifer duBois Realizing you’re pregnant when you don’t want to be can be an overwhelming experience—especially if you’re a teenager. Alongside the questions, decisions, and emotions you’re confronting, teens also have to consider who can—or should—be entrusted...
What to Expect At Your First OB/GYN Appointment
by Angella Beshara So, you need to make your first OB/GYN appointment. You are undoubtedly a little nervous and your head is probably spinning with lots of questions. This is completely normal. Going to the doctor for such personal and intimate needs as your...
Why I Plan to Give My Teenage Daughters Birth Control
by Catherine Shattuck Image from Bedsider Realizing that you’re pregnant when you don’t want to be is one of the scariest things that can happen to a teenager. In 2011, nearly 60,000 Texas teenagers became pregnant.* Most of those pregnancies were unplanned. That’s...
Reproductive Justice: The Birth of an Intersection
By Zoë Fay-Stindt Image from The Repeal Hyde Art Project Imagine being a minor in Austin with undocumented parents this week. You find out you’re pregnant. You’re not sure your parents would consent to an abortion, but even if they did, they’d be scared to go...
Imagine a Texas where…
This weekend, Jane's Due Process board member Amanda Woog spoke at the 44th anniversary Roe v. Wade rally in Austin, Texas. Pictured above, Amanda attended the rally with Tina Hester, Executive Director of Jane's Due Process; her mother, Kendall Ziegler, and her...
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...