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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...
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...