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The Texas Capitol peeks through the downtown Austin skyline on June 24.

Health care

Paxton sues Austin over abortion travel fund

By Eleanor KlibanoffSept. 27, 2024

The city has appropriated $400,000 to help residents travel out of state for abortions. This is the second lawsuit targeting the fund.

Amarillo Mayor Cole Stanley speaks during a City Council meeting on May 28, 2024.

2024 Texas Elections

Why a conservative Texas mayor defied his peers and put the brakes on an abortion “travel ban”

By Jayme Lozano CarverSept. 26, 2024

Amarillo Mayor Cole Stanley calls himself “pro-life.” But the proposal to police the streets for women traveling out of state to get an abortion is overreach, he said.

A woman gets a sonogram in an Austin clinic.

Health care

Maternal deaths surged in Texas in 2020, 2021

By Eleanor KlibanoffSept. 18, 2024

Even excluding deaths related to COVID, Texas’ maternal mortality rate spiked, reversing two years of improvement.

From left: Democrat Jonathan Gracia is challenging Republican incumbent Janie Lopez in state House District 37, which covers part of the Rio Grande Valley and includes Harlingen and part of Brownsville.

2024 Texas Elections

Democrats hope anti-voucher campaign will help win back South Texas House seat

By Berenice GarciaSept. 17, 2024

The first-term Republican defending her seat said a private school voucher program will help her community, especially students from low-income families.

Odessa Mayor Javier Joven poses for a photo at his childhood home on Aug. 12, in Odessa.

2024 Texas Elections

Odessa’s mayor ran to help the West Texas city “repent.” Now he wants a second term.

By Carlos Nogueras Ramos and Photos by Eli HartmanSept. 12, 2024

Under Javier Joven’s leadership, his critics say, the Odessa City Council has lost focus on municipal issues like roads and water infrastructure.

Amanda Zurawski, a plaintiff in the Zurawski v. Texas case, speaks, with other plaintiffs standing behind her, at the kick-off event for the “Women for Allred” coalition addressing the state of women’s health and abortion rights, in Dallas on Aug. 24, 2024.

2024 Texas Elections

After being denied a medically necessary abortion, Amanda Zurawski will do whatever it takes to beat Donald Trump

By Matthew ChoiAug. 27, 2024

Two years after a harrowing pregnancy where she was denied an abortion, the Texan has catapulted to being one of Democrats’ biggest messengers on reproductive rights.

Kate Cox reads to her two-year-old son at their Dallas-area home, on Aug. 11, 2024. Cox told the DNC on Tuesday that she fled Texas last year to terminate a nonviable pregnancy after the state blocked her request for an emergency abortion. She added that she is pregnant again and due in January.

2024 Texas Elections

Texas women at DNC tell of necessary health care denied because of state abortion laws

By Matthew ChoiAug. 20, 2024

The fight to push back abortion restrictions is central to Texas’ presence at the Democratic convention, and is a focus of the Kamala Harris campaign.