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Texas Abortion Law
January 24, 2023
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Matt Ford
The Kansas Republican Party’s Anti-Democratic Crusade to Ban Abortion
Conservatives talked a good game about letting states decide their own abortion policy right up until one state refused to toe the line.
May 27, 2022
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Matt Ford
Taking Cues From Texas, California Proposes Its Own Bounty Law—Against Guns
If it passes, the Golden State would set up a confrontation with the Supreme Court, which blessed the Lone Star State’s anti-abortion law.
March 11, 2022
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Matt Ford
Texas’s Abortion Bounty Law Is Inspiring Republican Lawmakers Around the Country
Spurred on by the Supreme Court’s tacit approval of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law, right-wing lawmakers are dreaming up even more extreme variations.
December 10, 2021
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Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Gives the Green Light to More Texas-Style Bounty Laws
The high court’s decision in the matter of the Lone Star State’s controversial abortion law seems destined to spawn further chaos.
November 4, 2021
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Esther Wang
There’s Nothing Moderate About a Ban on Abortions at 15 Weeks
As the Supreme Court considers Texas’s extreme abortion ban, commentators would have you believe Mississippi’s is comparatively reasonable.
November 1, 2021
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Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Won’t Gut
Roe
the Way Texas Wants It To
The court’s conservative majority will likely soon scuttle abortion rights, but they don’t seem inclined to let S.B. 8 be the means of destruction.
October 22, 2021
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Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Now Has
Roe
in Its Sights
What will be left of abortion rights after the next few months of consequential cases is anybody’s guess.
October 11, 2021
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Annie Geng
Legal Whiplash Around the Texas Ban Is a Reminder: Courts Alone Can’t Save Abortion
While Texas providers remain in limbo, advocates are stepping up local strategies for abortion access.
September 22, 2021
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Matt Ford
The First Plaintiffs to Sue Under the Texas Abortion Ban Are as Ridiculous as the Ban Itself
After a doctor revealed in The Washington Post that he had broken the law, two disgraced, out-of-state lawyers filed equally bizarre lawsuits against him.
September 14, 2021
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Amy Littlefield
Texas Republicans Can’t Stop All Medical Abortions
The state is trying to regulate something it can’t: the decentralized distribution of pills largely originating in Mexico, where abortion is no longer a crime.
September 11, 2021
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Jason Linkins
Why Would Corporate America Save Reproductive Rights?
Major U.S. companies apparently don’t see Texas’s abortion ban as an economic threat.
September 8, 2021
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Grace Segers
The Texas Abortion Law Could Juice Democratic Turnout in Virginia
Terry McAuliffe may benefit if reproductive rights return to the forefront as a campaign issue in the upcoming gubernatorial elections.
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