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Tierra Walker Kept Getting Sicker — and Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion

https://murica.website/2025/11/tierra-walker-kept-getting-sicker-and-died-after-she-couldnt-get-an-abortion/

A bill filed in the state Legislature could address doctors' concerns that the medical exception to Texas’ abortion ban lacks clarity.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/abortion/2025/03/24/516709/a-texas-bill-offers-clarity-on-abortion-exemptions-heres-what-doctors-think/

#Abortion #HealthScience #Healthcare #News #Politics #Texas #KUT #LifeOfTheMotherAct #TexasAbortionBan #TexasAbortionLaws #TexasLegislature

Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law. This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/abortion/2024/12/13/508782/ken-paxton-sues-new-york-doctor-accused-of-prescribing-abortion-pills-to-texas-woman/

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The case of Porsha Ngumezi, a 35-year-old woman from the Houston area, raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/healthcare/2024/11/26/507153/a-third-woman-died-under-texas-abortion-ban-as-doctors-reach-for-riskier-miscarriage-treatments/

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Texas’ strict abortion bans made it “ground zero” for Democrats hoping to rile up their base, but voters prioritized economic issues.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/election-2024/2024/11/15/506236/why-democrats-abortion-messaging-failed-to-resonate-in-texas-despite-unpopular-bans/

#Abortion #Election2024 #HealthScience #News #Politics #2024Election #AbortionAccessInTexas #RoeVWade #TexasAbortionBan

In #Texas, #doctors face a real #SophiesChoice. They can either practice #medicine the way they’ve been taught, regardless of the personal consequences to themselves; they can try their best to comply with the arbitrary edicts of the #Republican state legislature and their own hapless medical board, and still risk #prison; or they can choose to leave the state of Texas and practice elsewhere.

#TexasFascism #TexasAbortionBan #GOPLies #RepublicansAreTheProblem #VoteBlue

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/27/2237288/-Texas-is-about-to-make-pregnancy-even-more-dangerous

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo criticized state leaders after a recent study published in a peer-reviewed medical journal estimated that more than 26,000 Texas women became pregnant by rape after abortion was banned in the state.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/abortion/2024/01/26/475719/lina-hidalgo-criticizes-texas-abortion-ban-after-study-estimates-thousands-of-rape-related-pregnancies/

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Woman who sued Texas for abortion left state to have procedure after ‘hellish’ week
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/11/texas-abortion-kate-cox-lawsuit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#USPolitics #TexasAbortionBan #KateCox #AbortionIsHealthcare

Extremists Are Running America Because No One Runs Against Them: The author of Texas's abortion ban faced no opponent in 2022.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173081/extremists-running-america-no-one-runs

#NewRepublic #ExtremistTakeover #TexasAbortionBan #2022Elections #PoliticalOpposition #DemocracyInDanger #Politics #News