In the Roundup: Texas leaders look to quietly enact a new requirement of abortion providers, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn calls for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to lose her security clearance and Texas and New York battle it out over businesses.
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Health care
Divided Anti-Abortion Groups Map New Strategies
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out their greatest legislative victory — the House Bill 2 abortion restrictions — Texas abortion opponents are trying to decide what comes next.
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Health care
Texas Wants Aborted Fetuses Buried or Cremated
In a little-noticed effort to regulate abortion providers, Texas health officials have quietly proposed rules that would require abortion providers to cremate or bury all fetal remains.
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Health care
Analysis: Abortion Stats Reveal Texas Lawmakers’ True Intentions
State lawmakers’ 2013 abortion regulations — an effort to circumvent what was spelled out over time by the U.S. Supreme Court — would have been easier to defend with some evidence. But that wasn’t part of the sales pitch.
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Politics
Abortion Ruling Dominates Week in Texas Politics (Video)
In the Roundup: The High Court overturns the state’s abortion regulations, the Texas Attorney General weighs in on the Fort Worth superintendent’s transgender policy and a new poll shows a little promise for the Clinton campaign in Texas.
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Health care
Sharp Drop in Abortions Followed Restrictions
The number of drug-induced abortions in Texas plummeted in the first full year after the state’s strict 2013 abortion law took effect, according to statistics released Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Criminal Justice
Abortion Legal Fight Cost Texas More Than $1 Million
The legal battle to defend Texas’ 2013 abortion restrictions — which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional on Monday — cost Texas taxpayers more than $1 million, according to records obtained by The Texas Tribune.
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Health care
Here Are the Texas Abortion Clinics That Have Closed Since 2013
Though the Supreme Court on Monday handed Texas abortion providers a major victory by striking down the state’s most stringent abortion restrictions, House Bill 2 leaves behind a trail of shuttered clinics. Take a look.
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Analysis: Anti-Regulation Party in Texas Has a Strong Taste for Rules
Monday’s Supreme Court ruling against two key provisions of the state’s anti-abortion law was the latest setback for a band of Republicans who abhor regulatory constraints on business but who regularly try to control the behavior of individuals in Texas.
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Vindication For Wendy Davis and “Unruly Mob”
Almost three years to the day after Wendy Davis held the Texas Senate floor in a filibuster against abortion restrictions that galvanized reproductive rights activists, vindication came Monday in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
