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Federal Judge Has Blocked Texas Rule Requiring Women to Cremate and Bury Their Aborted Fetuses
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he would immediately appeal the injunction instead of waiting for a full trial.
Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith is a state and national award-winning investigative journalist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She has covered the criminal legal system for more than 25 years and, during that time, has developed a reputation as a resourceful and dogged reporter with a talent for analyzing complex social and legal issues. She spent more than 20 years reporting in Texas where she was regarded as one of the best investigative reporters in the state. Her investigative work in wrongful conviction cases has helped to exonerate six people. A longtime staff writer for the Austin Chronicle, her work has also appeared in The Nation, the Crime Report, and the Texas Observer, among other places.
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The End of Roe
Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch Is a Down Payment on Trump's Promise to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Without the constitutional protection of Roe v. Wade, the right to abortion would be “heavily dependent on income and zip code.”
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Texas Is Leading the Right-Wing Crusade Against Planned Parenthood
Texas is leading the Republican fight to strip Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of women's health services in the U.S., of all government funding.
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Kentucky's New Fetal Pain Law, Like Most Abortion Restrictions, Is Based on Junk Science
Kentucky's new anti-abortion law assumes — incorrectly — that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks.
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19 States Passed 60 New Abortion Restrictions in 2016
One of the most egregious attacks on reproductive rights came from Indiana and was signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence.
Justice Department Finally Opens Investigation of Orange County Snitch Scandal
The Orange County district attorney and sheriff have been at the center of a nearly four-year-old scandal involving the illegal use of jailhouse informants.
New Evidence Deputies Committed Perjury in Orange County Snitch Scandal
Newly released documents suggest that Orange County deputies destroyed evidence and lied under oath about their improper use of jailhouse snitches.
A Rumor Put Kirstin Lobato in Prison for Murder. Now She'll Get a New Hearing.
Kirstin Lobato was convicted of a grisly murder on the basis of a rumor she had cut off a man’s penis in Las Vegas. Nevada’s Supreme Court wasn’t convinced.
New Sanctuary Cities in Texas Vow to Resist Donald Trump's Deportations
Voters in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston elected sheriffs who campaigned on promises to stop cooperating with deportations.
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A Preview of Trump's America: Texas Wants to Force Women to Bury Their Miscarriages and Abortions
In Trump's America, women around the country are poised to experience exactly what it’s like to live in Texas.