Council Fast-Tracks Move to Decriminalize Abortion in Austin

A moment of GRACE

"...Council Members Chito Vela and Vanessa Fuentes have requested a special called meeting..."

July 1, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Fast-Tracked SB 8 Hearing Set for U.S. Supreme Court

SCOTUS to hear arguments against Texas abortion ban

"...In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court fast-tracked two legal challenges to..."

Oct. 29, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Ken Paxton Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Historic Whole Woman’s Ruling

Cruz, Cornyn join anti-choice attorney general in call for repeal

"...legal challenge to a Louisiana law that requires abortion providers to obtain hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of..."

Jan. 10, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Questions Arise About APD's Use of Sound Machines

Sonic warfare?

"...Since moving to Austin in 1980, Jim Ellin­ger has attended more..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Women's Health Advocates Brace for "Perfect Storm" at Texas Legislature

Republican lawmakers racing to further restrict abortion access

"...A month before the 87th Texas Legislature gaveled in, Republican lawmakers were already working on how to..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Protecting Austinites’ Reproductive Rights

A package of city measures in response to Dobbs decision

"...unanimously (in the absence of lone Republican Mackenzie Kelly) approved four items at a July 21 special called meeting,..."

July 29, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: We Knew This Was Trouble

Institutional Democrats fail their parenting tests at the dawn of the Dobbs era

"...to choose between the fragile, tender eggs and the heavy, burdensome sacks, which tracked pretty closely with what I..."

July 1, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

After a Decade of Decline in Teen Parents, Support Services Brace for Rising Demand

It takes a village

"...Rocio Villarreal remembers feeling scared and anxious at her first prenatal..."

Dec. 23, 2022 News Feature by Sara Hutchinson

ACLU Sues Texas Cities Over Local Abortion Bans

Suit argues small towns aim to suppress truth, free speech

"...In response to a wave of tiny East Texas towns passing ordinances to ban..."

Feb. 26, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Point Austin: United Defense of the Fetus

Campaign to end abortion is a national crusade

"...Early in last Friday's Senate debate over the anti-abortion bill (HB 2), the bill's sponsor, Katy..."

July 19, 2013 News Column by Michael King

Shefali Luthra on Texas’ Role in the Undue Burden Unleashed by Abortion Restrictions

Texas Book Festival author to discuss the loss of reproductive rights in Sunday panel

"...The Supreme Court first scaled back Roe v. Wade, which protected the right to an abortion..."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature by Carys Anderson

Crosstalk: Launching Megz Kelli's Soundtrack, Lockhart's Plum Creek Records, and Norman BA$E's Trap Burger

Austin music news headlines of the week

"...trumpet" next Thursday, Jan. 26, at Firehouse Lounge. The "avant-jazz-meets-soul" score was co-composed and co-produced by Kelli's hip-hop duo..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

SXSW Announces First 2023 Speakers

Olympian and entrepreneur Allyson Felix, Cecile Richards, more

"...The lineup is the first taste of the massive number of speakers and panels the festival always provides,..."

Aug. 30, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Pro-Choice Demonstrators Turn Out by the Thousands

Protests at schools, the Texas Capitol continue after leaked Supreme Court decision

"...staged walkouts across the city to champion abortion rights, activists gathered by the thousands last weekend in Downtown Austin,..."

May 20, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

Austin at Large: Look What We Made Them Do

So, why do these creeps care so much about other people’s abortions, anyway?

"...My first political memories, as a child, are of Vietnam and Watergate; for my son's generation, it was Bush..."

May 6, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Two Promising Challenges to SB 8 Forge On, as More Abortion Funds Face Legal Threats

Abortion advocates say the fight is a social one and long from over

"...Though pro-choice Texans have lost a few battles to Texas' near-total abortion ban,..."

April 1, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Top Austin Headlines of 2021: Abortion? No! Frivolous Lawsuits? Sure!

September 1: SB 8 goes into effect, prohibiting abortion care after embryonic cardiac activity can be detected (around six weeks)

"...With all the drama over the summer, with absconding Democrats, and three special sessions,..."

Dec. 17, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

After Two-Day Pause, Abortion Ban Reinstated

Following last week's pause, Texas Senate Bill 8 is back

"...abortion ban is back in effect, after the largely conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the..."

Oct. 15, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Louisiana Lege Tries Outlawing Abortion, Flag Burning

Gov. Kathleen Blanco signs bill criminalizing access to safe and legal abortion services; Lege also passes ban on flag burning

"...As promised, on June 18 Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law a bill criminalizing access..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Everything Old Is New Again

A Texan's in the White House, we're in a quagmire war – and 'The Rag' returns to Austin

"...her job as a schoolteacher in Fort Worth and moved to Austin to get a master's at UT. She..."

Sept. 2, 2005 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

Naked City

Yeah, that's what we needed ... another middle-aged white guy

"...In a televised public address on Tuesday, President George W. Bush nominated..."

July 22, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Abortion Advocates Sue for Reproductive Rights

Manning new battle lines in the fight for legal abortion

"...March 7: Abortion advocates in Texas are manning new battle lines in the..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

How the Filibuster Has Already Undermined Democracy

The recent attacks on reproductive rights reveal another reason to let the filibuster burn

"...naked power at the symbolic center of Joseph Heller's novel of that name, set during World War II and..."

May 6, 2022 News Feature by Michael King

Jill Biden Invites Austinite Nearly Killed by Abortion Ban to State of the Union

Still, Biden dedicated little time to abortion in his address

"...the Union address, the president had much ground to cover Tuesday night. He highlighted progress in the economy and..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Lives at Stake

"...that when the Supreme Court made its ruling in Roe v. Wade and the companion case, Doe v. Bolton,..."

July 18, 2013 Postmarks

Conservatives' Beliefs

"...Texas Health Care,” News] and much of the Chron's coverage of this issue. That's because you're looking at it..."

Feb. 6, 2012 Postmarks

Austin Fund Allots $100,000 for Nonprofit Helping Teens Access Abortion

City faces two lawsuits for supporting out-of-state travel

"...against the city of Austin’s abortion fund, the city moved forward with allotting $100,000 on Thursday to a local..."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature by Eden Shamy

Doctors Are Confused and Women Are Dying

Texas must clean up its abortion laws, local rep says

"...when the mother’s life is in danger. But when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2021, experts warned that..."

Nov. 8, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Immaculate

Sydney Sweeney excels in just-OK nun horror

"...Directed by: Michael Mohan. Starring: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Alvaro Morte, Benedetta Porcaroli and Dora Romano...."

March 22, 2024 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

The Disappearance of Shere Hite

Restoring the reputation of the sexologist and researcher

"...author of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality, doesn’t have all the answers to these questions, but it is..."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

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