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Why I Plan to Give My Teenage Daughters Birth Control

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

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…

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...

Testimony to DSHS from our Board President

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

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

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...

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