Texas lawmakers are racing to toward the June 2 finish line for the 2025 legislative session. Here are some of the highlights of Thursday's action. Anti-communism education bill sails through House The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to require public school students to learn about “historical events and atrocities” that took place under communist regimes,

Texas lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday to clarify medical exceptions under one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S., putting the GOP-backed proposal on the brink of reaching ...

According to a first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis of state hospital discharge data, while the rates of dangerous infections spiked across Texas after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston were far more likely to get gravely ill than those in Dallas.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, known for rulings limiting access to a key abortion drug, has struck down EEOC guidance protecting transgender employees. The post ‘Metastasized definition of sex’: Trump-appointed judge known for anti-abortion rulings strikes down transgender workplace protections first appeared on Law & Crime.

Georgia's "heartbeat law" ​is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states.

A bill banning THC products in Texas passed in the Texas House late Wednesday night—and now advocates and business owners are requesting a hail mary for the hemp industry in the form of a veto from Gov.

The Missouri Senate approved an anti-abortion proposal, six months after Missourians voted for abortion protections. (Correction: A previous version of this video said the new abortion referendum would require that in cases of abortion for rape or incest,