In the first challenge to new reproductive health privacy rules issued this year by the Biden-Harris administration, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued HHS in federal court, claiming that ...

Two Texas abortion advocacy groups are trying a new legal strategy to strike down the state’s restrictive abortion law, which has proven very difficult so far to challenge in court.

Texas’ abortion laws are extremely unpopular, with as many as 80% of voters saying they’d like to see additional exceptions, and Democrats have tried to capitalize on that dissonance.

States can now enforce laws that criminalize abortion. But a Texas law that outsources enforcement to civilians could have legal immunity that other laws don't, pushing more states to follow suit.

Texas suing to block rule shielding abortion-related records 00:26. LUBBOCK — Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration to block a federal rule that shields the medical records of ...

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday effectively shut down a federal challenge to the state’s novel and controversial ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, closing off what abortion ...

However, Texas right-wing officials have recently mounted a legal challenge to the federal policy in order to access the private medical records of patients who seek abortion care across state lines.

If Texas successfully insulates SB 8 from judicial challenge by employing the private enforcement approach, then other states can follow that roadmap to target any federal rights they oppose.

Texas’ new abortion law is an attempt to outlaw the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy through a legal arrangement designed specifically to evade a challenge under Roe.

In Texas, following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion is illegal in nearly all situations, except when the life of the pregnant woman is at risk.

A Texas judge ruled on Friday that the state must allow doctors to provide abortions to pregnant women whose health or lives are in danger, or whose fetuses have little likelihood of survival.