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Over the summer of 2021, Texas high school student Anwita Siddavatam joined Jane's Due Process as a digital communications intern. We recently caught up with Anwita to see what she's up to and how her time with JDP impacted her advocacy for reproductive health,...

“Have you ever heard of sex ed? It sounds like something dirty. Why would they teach about the word that is whispered only behind closed doors in our schools?” “And surely, surely no child - but especially mine - would ever do such a thing, good heavens no! So of...

The first time I heard the word ‘abortion,’ I didn’t know what to think. I was around kids at my school, discussing the pregnancy of a classmate, and the debate turned to her hypothetically getting an abortion. The language they used was just them mimicking their...

Amidst current acts of infringement upon reproductive welfare (considering SCOTUS’s overturning of Roe v Wade), the contemporary issues within adolescent reproductive care have likewise been increasingly susceptible to the conservative hands which persist upon the...

They say that you don’t remember the pain of childbirth, just the memory of becoming a parent. I’ve never given birth, and according to the doctor who diagnosed me with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome at age 12–I likely never will. And although I’ve never been pregnant,...

In 2021, Jane’s Due Process celebrated 20 years of helping teens in Texas access abortion care. We also faced some of our biggest challenges to protecting youth reproductive rights yet. JDP expanded to meet the moment, supporting thousands of young Texans as they...

En Espanol abajo.  On May 2, 2022 a draft legal opinion was leaked from the U.S. Supreme Court. The draft said that the Court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade, which protects the legal right to abortion on the federal level. This is devastating information. Abortion...

You may have seen folks talking about #FThon22 on social media and wondered, "What is that? And how do I join in?" Well we have answers! What Is Fund-a-Thon? Every year, the National Network of Abortion Funds puts on Fund-a-Thon, a chance for member funds to engage...

SB8, Texas' 6-week abortion ban, went into effect on September 1st, 2021. This devastating law is designed to dramatically decrease the number of people in Texas accessing abortion. Recently released statistics from the first month of SB8 confirm what we suspected....