A University of Texas student group is helping women reach distant abortion clinics after new restrictions have reduced the number of clinics in the state to twelve.
Speaking to the Texas Tribunal Festival on Sunday, Texas Governor Rick Perry referenced comedian Joan Rivers' death in defending a recently blocked abortion clinic law.
Just days before it was set to go into law, a federal judged overturned several Texas abortion restrictions that would have resulted in the closing of a dozen clinics in the state.
There is a new state bill concerning abortions that is moving on to the full Senate. The bill would require doctors to do sonograms at least 24 hours before an abortion.
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The bill, authored by Houston Senator Dan Patrick, comes one month after the 38th anniversary of the landmark decision Roe v...