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Texas Teens: Know your reproductive rights
Texas has a lot of legal barriers when it comes to teens and reproductive rights. With a total abortion ban and parental consent requirement for prescription birth control, it might seem like young people don't have any reproductive rights at all. But you do! Keep...
SEX TALKS: Is it normal to not always want to have sex with your partner?
Someone asked our sexpert, “Is it normal to not always want to have sex with your partner?” This is an important question that all young people need the answer to: Yes, it is entirely normal not to want to have sex with a partner at certain times or in certain...
Lubbock teens can now pick up emergency contraception at Rock-Paper-Shears!
Lubbock, Texas, is dubbed the “Hub City” because its position in West Texas brings many valuable resources to surrounding cities. Although Lubbock is the biggest city in the South Plains area, the area lacks resources for young teens seeking reproductive health and...
Together we continue to show up for Texas teens
After a year like 2022, that might seem next to impossible. The fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion banned in Texas, and teen birth control access through Title X undermined by a judge in Amarillo left Texas teens facing the biggest barriers to reproductive health access in...
JDP SEX TALKS: Is it okay to masturbate?
Question: I've never had sex, but I recently started masturbating. But I've seen people say that it's not good for you, and sometimes I don't feel well afterward. I do enjoy it, and I feel like learning about my body and what feels good has been good for me. BUT...is...
Big News: We’re helping Texas teens travel for abortion access!
In late February, Judge Robert Pitman issued a decision temporarily blocking prosecutions of abortion funds helping people travel out of state for abortion care. And after 10 months of being unable to support Texas teens seeking abortion, we have a big announcement....
Federal Ruling Protects Texas Abortion Funds’ Ability to Pay for Out-of-State Abortions and Travel
Today, plaintiffs in a pro-abortion lawsuit released a statement in response to a federal ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman on February 24th, indicating that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton cannot enforce the state’s abortion ban on abortions that...
Join the JDP Fund-a-Thon 2023 Committee!
Do you… Feel passionate about young people in Texas exercising their reproductive rights to abortion and birth control? Believe that we should repeal parental consent laws? Think the abortion ban is absolute garbage? Feel better knowing that Jane’s Due Process...
The My Body, My Future Act to Protect Youth Access to Birth Control was Filed in the Texas Legislature
State Representative Ana-Maria Ramos (D-Dallas) and State Senator Nathan Johnson (D-Dallas) have filed the My Body, My Future Act, HB 1176 and SB 366, to allow young people under the age of 18 to consent to birth control in Texas. With a statewide abortion ban in...
A letter from our outgoing executive director
After 3 and 1/2 years as executive director, I am writing to share that have accepted a new opportunity and will be leaving the role in January 2023. It has been been an incredible joy to be part of Jane's Due Process. I have felt so lucky and honored to get to work...