Blog
Board Member Spotlight: Krithi Srinivasan
We are delighted to welcome Krithi Srinivasan, our newest board member. Krithi, a Dallas native, is an MPH and MD candidate at UT San Antonio, where she is an active member of Medical Students for Choice. She is currently working on issues of teen pregnancy in the Rio...
One Year Later: JDP and #HB2
One Year Later: JDP and #HB2 From our July Newsletter: Dear Friend of Jane's Due Process, Just over a year after the historic filibuster to protect the right for Texas women to access abortion care, minors across the state are feeling the effects of HB2’s draconian...
Jane’s Due Process and the Crisis At The Border
Jane's Due Process and the Crisis At The Border There have been many reports and much conversation about the current immigration crisis at the Texas/Mexico border, as tens of thousands of children are fleeing violence in Central America and seeking shelter on this...
Our 2013 Impact Report
Our 2013 Impact Report Every year, Jane's Due Process releases its impact report to show how much work and help they were able to do the year before and to give a state of the state in regards to the legal rights of pregnant minors in Texas. You can read the full...
What’s up at Jane’s: April 2014
What's up at Jane's: April 2014 A Letter from our Director: Dear Friend of Jane's Due Process, Running a 24/7 legal hotline, I hear firsthand accounts every day of how hard it is for women and girls to obtain abortions. I am starting to feel like an air traffic...
Need Birth Control?
Need Birth Control? Let’s talk about birth control. If you’re sexually active, even if you had have sex only once, you are at risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection or becoming pregnant. At Jane’s Due Process we provide legal help to pregnant minors in...
Remarks To Texas Senate Hearing On Women’s Health
Remarks To Texas Senate Hearing On Women's Health These remarks were delivered today by our Executive Director, Tina Hester, to the Texas Health And Human Services Committee during their hearing on the state of women's health in Texas. Chairman Nelson and Committee...
What’s Up At Jane’s: Feb 2014
What's Up At Jane's: Feb 2014 It seems like the year just started. It's hard to believe it's already February! Here's a little peek at our year so far: A Letter from our Director: Each day our referral attorneys do more than just advocate for our clients in...
Roe v. Wade’s 41st Anniversary, Rio Grande Valley Style
Roe v. Wade’s 41st Anniversary, Rio Grande Valley Style On the 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling and as anti-choice folks gather around the county to protest a person’s right to choose an abortion, I cannot help to but think of both the young...
I Help Teenage Girls Get Abortions
Today, Governor Rick Perry signed into law a sweeping abortion measure. My heart broke for all of what my Republican uncle in Lubbock calls “my girls.” My heart broke for one girl and one baby. Really, my heart broke for this one girl. “My girls” are Texas minors...