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Texas Tech medical school cancels talk on health, ethical considerations in late-pregnancy abortions

University leaders declined to give a reason. Abortion opponents said the discussion would have promoted illegal activity, something advocates deny.

The Texas Tribune · Feb 18

Campaign finance records don’t capture total spending on Amarillo abortion “travel ban” election

Several prominent Amarillo business people donated to support the so-called travel ban. Meanwhile, statewide progressive groups helped the opposition.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 9, 2024

Amarillo voters reject abortion “travel ban,” a rare rebuke of anti-abortion movement in Texas

Tuesday’s vote was a rare chance for Texans to vote directly on abortion restrictions. The state already has a near-total abortion ban.

The Texas Tribune · Nov 6, 2024

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The Far Right Wants to End Out-of-State Abortion. Amarillo Is in the Way.

Texas' biggest popular vote on abortion post-"Roe" pits local advocates against an abortion travel ban that's part of a scheme to block the path to New Mexico.

Texas Observer · Sep 10, 2024

Amarillo City Council must vote on abortion travel ban following successful voter petition

The council has been reluctant to approve the ban since it first debated the issue last fall.

The Texas Tribune · May 16, 2024

Texas anti-abortion activists pushed abortion restrictions in New Mexico, records show

A handful of cities and counties in New Mexico have passed restrictions – with help from Texans Mark Lee Dickson and attorney Jonathan Mitchell.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 4, 2024

New Mexico supreme court to consider obscure 1873 law used to ban abortion

State is latest in which the Comstock Act is being used to try to ban abortion after the fall of Roe v Wade

The Guardian - US · Dec 13, 2023

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After pause, this Texas city is set to reconsider banning travel to access an abortion

A handful of local governments have already put the legally dubious bans in place. The news that Amarillo will take the issue up again comes shortly after a Dallas woman left the state for an abortion after losing a legal battle to obtain one here.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 13, 2023

Four Texas Counties Now Ban Travel for Abortions

The travel ban bars pregnant Texans from leaving the state to access an abortion. From Truthout's Zane McNeil.

Texas Observer · Oct 26, 2023

Why a Texas Panhandle city hit pause on a proposed abortion “travel ban” — for now

Amarillo's city council said it will continue to study the issue. The city is one of just a few in Texas to reject the policy pushed by anti-abortion activists.

The Texas Tribune · Oct 25, 2023

Texas counties trying to prevent people from using roads to get an abortion grows

A Texas county near New Mexico has banned helping people traveling to get an abortion

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2023

With no opposition in the room, a rural Texas county makes traveling for an abortion on its roads illegal

Cochran County, which borders New Mexico, joins a small group of other rural Texas counties that have passed these ordinances. Abortion-rights supporters say the new policies are not legal.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 28, 2023

Anti-choice states aren’t satisfied. Now they want to punish traveling for abortions

A husband who doesn’t want his wife to get an abortion could sue the friend who offered to drive her, according to this legislation’s own architect

The Guardian - US · Sep 12, 2023

A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Illinois is fighting hard to protect abortion rights

The numbers of Americans supporting abortion rights since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision are encouraging. But the fight is far from over to safeguard women’s right to make their own decisions about pregnancy.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 22, 2023

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Salon · May 30, 2023

Why rural abortion battlegrounds matter

Extreme variations in abortion policy from state to state are the new normal. Local challenges matter immensely

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

Small, rural communities have become abortion access battlegrounds

WEST WENDOVER, Nevada — In April, Mark Lee Dickson arrived in this 4,500-person city that hugs the Utah-Nevada border to pitch an ordinance banning abortion.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 24, 2023

Some Texas groups resume funding out-of-state abortions after court ruling

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in February, blocking a limited number of prosecutors from going after anyone who helps a Texan travel out of state to terminate a pregnancy. This has given some abortion funds confidence to resume operations.

The Guardian - US · Mar 9, 2023

How a pastor is trying to revive a 150-year-old US law to ban abortion

Mark Lee Dickson is trying to get the federal anti-obscenity law at the heart of ordinances enforced across the US

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The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2023

Abortion clinics crossing state borders spark local disputes

Residents in southwestern Virginia have battled for months over whether abortion clinics limited by strict laws in other states should be allowed to hop over the border and operate there

Tribune News Service · Feb 28, 2023

Activists aim for Supreme Court with local abortion bans in blue states

Nearly 70 cities and counties across rural America have banned abortion in the past few years as part of a slow-burning conservative campaign to outlaw the procedure everywhere.

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023

New Mexico legislators may block local abortion ordinances

A standoff over abortion in politically conservative regions of New Mexico escalated as Democratic state legislators advanced a bill that would prohibit local governments from interfering with women’s access to reproductive health care

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2023

Ohio city rewrites abortion ban, advocacy groups end lawsuit

Groups representing social workers and women say they have succeeded in forcing a small Ohio city to significantly narrow its abortion ban and dropped their lawsuit

The Texas Tribune · Oct 26, 2022

Texas Supreme Court weighs whether to dismiss abortion funds’ defamation case against anti-abortion activist

Several abortion funds have sued anti-abortion activist Mark Lee Dickson, who called them “criminal organizations,” for defamation.

The Texas Tribune · Aug 10, 2022

Texas anti-abortion protesters set sights on New Mexico, where the procedure is still protected

As Texans seek abortions in the only neighboring state to allow them, opponents of the procedure follow them across the border, hoping to create more “sanctuary cities for the unborn.”

France 24 · May 20, 2022

US abortion rights under threat: The spectre of a post-Roe America

The recent leak of a confidential US Supreme Court document has confirmed the conservative-majority court's intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, the decision that has guaranteed access to abortion throughout the United States for nearly 50 years. Such a decision would have an unprecedented impact on 75 million women of…

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