Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country and during this legislative session, anti-abortion advocates are hoping to foreclose on the few remaining avenues left to end a pregnancy.
Nonetheless, Texas’ abortion ban, which threatens providers with life in prison among other steep penalties, offers no exception for rape. One year before Roe, in September 2021, the state enacted SB ...
The rise in out-of-state abortions comes as the overall number of Texas minors accessing the procedure has plummeted. In the years before the abortion ban took effect in August 2022, between ...