Ashley Lopez
Senior Reporter, Health Care and PoliticsAshley Lopez joined KUT in January 2016. She covers politics and health care, and is part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News reporting collaborative. Previously she worked as a reporter at public radio stations in Louisville, Ky.; Miami and Fort Myers, Fla., where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.
Ashley was also part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2016 presidential election. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers fled Texas in an effort to block Republican-led restrictive voting legislation from being passed. -
The Texas House Democratic Caucus moved some meetings with advocates online after a handful of representatives in Washington tested positive for the virus. Members are also following protocols like wearing masks.
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Some Democrats have said it's ultimately Gov. Abbott's responsibility to restore the funding he chose to veto.
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Una ley estatal podría eliminar acceso a todos los abortos comenzando a las seis semanas de un embarazo.
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Senate Bill 4 would limit the timeframe a person could get a medication abortion from 10 weeks into a pregnancy to seven weeks.
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While Democrats were in Washington, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 1, one of the sweeping voting bills House members are blocking from passage.
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In effect, the law could eliminate access to all abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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The latest bills contain many measures from a past failed legislative effort that voting rights groups say would make it harder to vote in Texas.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a restrictive Arizona voting law has activists elsewhere concerned. In Texas, state lawmakers are set to unveil a new voting bill.
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Texas es uno de los 12 estados que se han resistido a expandir Medicaid a más personas de bajos ingresos. Aquí, alrededor del 41% de padres latinos y casi el 18% de niños latinos no tienen seguro médico, según el informe.
