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A New Abortion Ban Is in Effect. We Still Need Care. Here’s What You Need To Know.
House Bill 7, a bill banning the mailing of abortion pills into Texas, is in effect as of December 4, 2025. We sat down with advocates to discuss the landscape of care and the options available to Texans seeking abortions.

WORD IN BLACK Op-Ed: Black Mothers Are Dying. Texas Can’t Be Bothered to Investigate
Texas has manufactured a reproductive health crisis. In the case of Tierra Walker, a Texas mother who died after being denied lifesaving abortion care, a state-designed disaster has collided with the country’s Black maternal health crisis.

How can Texas ride the wave of the economic justice agenda that’s swept the nation?
As vital 2026 elections loom in Texas, we must be clear-eyed about our mission to build power and shift culture for lasting, generational change. The people who seek governing power in Texas should see this moment as a shift in what the people demand of them, not simply a one-off election.

The Cuts to SNAP Food Assistance Are a Reproductive INjustice
The gutting of SNAP benefits is not a budgetary decision; it is a deliberate choice to continue waging war on the very conditions that make reproductive freedom possible.

Avow Will Continue Building Power for Reproductive Justice Alongside Texans, Even as Abbott Signs Fourth Abortion Ban Into Law
Under HB 7, private citizens — including those living outside of Texas — have the ability to sue anyone who distributes, transports, manufactures, or mails abortion medication to the state.

We Are Still Here: Survivors of Texas’s Abortion Ban Speak Out
This week marks 4 years since Texas’ first abortion ban, which passed almost a year before the Dobbs decision. Texas was the first state to