Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood says it will provide abortions out of an RV-based clinic in southern Illinois by the end of the year. It will reduce travel time for some patients coming from surrounding states.

The nonprofit offers reproductive health care services like birth control and STI screening and treatment. Abortion services made up less than 5% of the total patient visits in Central Texas in 2020.

In a memo issued last week, Attorney General Ken Paxton said prosecutors “may choose to immediately pursue criminal prosecutions based on violations of Texas abortion prohibitions predating Roe that were never repealed by the Texas Legislature.”

Clinicians say they are seeing an influx of "panicked" patients trying to avoid an unwanted pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood had requested that the court reverse a decision to indefinitely pause the lawsuit, which was filed in Travis County district court.

Abbott suggested victims of rape have "at least six weeks" to get an abortion if they choose under his state's new law. But the timeline is actually much shorter than that for most people.

A diferencia de otras medidas contra el aborto, las autoridades no son quienes harán cumplir la ley — serán los ciudadanos, quienes podrán demandar a los proveedores del servicio.

Unlike other abortion restrictions, the state is not enforcing this ban. Instead it is up to private citizens to sue.

The Trump administration tried to "defund" Planned Parenthood and other groups through changes to the Title X family planning program. The Biden administration is proposing reversing those rules.

A Texas judge raised concerns about the state's motives but ultimately said the federal courts should deal with the matter.