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Power of Local Organizing: San Antonio Reproductive Justice Fund
How Community Advocacy is Transforming Reproductive Care Access At Avow Texas, we believe in the power of community and grassroots advocacy to drive meaningful change. We’ve seen it firsthand in our journey to establish the San Antonio Reproductive Justice Fund — a milestone that showcases what local organizing can achieve. This fund is more than
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Avow Texas Announces 2024 Primary Endorsements
Houston, TX – Today, Avow: Unapologetic Abortion Advocacy announced four endorsements in the 2024 Primary Election. Avow has typically only endorsed candidates in General Elections but decided to support these candidates because of their abortion out-loud approach in the face of Texas’ extreme political climate and abortion bans. Avow Political Director Caroline Duble issued the following statement: “In
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Avow announces new executive director, Raven Freeborn
After an extensive local and national search, Avow is thrilled to announce Raven Freeborn as the organization’s incoming executive director. Raven is a visionary reproductive justice leader whose work is a true embodiment of Avow’s vision of working towards a world where every person is trusted, thriving, and free to pursue the life they want.
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Solidarity statement with laid off All Above All staff
The staff at Avow Texas condemns the actions taken by All Above All’s steering committee and executive staff to layoff their workforce amid anti-Blackness concerns and investigations. To that extent, we request the removal of our name from their partners list. We stand in solidarity with the former All Above All staff who were laid
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Avow Staff and Board members announce departure of executive director Aimee Arrambide
After four years of strong leadership, Aimee Arrambide is stepping down as the executive director of Avow Texas. Current deputy director Emily Martin, who has been at Avow for more than ten years, will serve as interim executive director beginning January 1, 2023. Aimee started her reproductive health, rights, and justice career at Avow Texas,
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Texas trigger law bans abortion — even in cases of rape, incest, or fetal anomaly
Providing an abortion in Texas is now a felony. There aren’t even exceptions for rape, incest, or fetal anomaly. Every Republican in the State House and Senate approved this law. And Gov. Greg Abbott signed it into law in 2021, knowing it would almost certainly become a reality. The goal of the “trigger ban” was
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v Wade, Texas extremists could soon criminalize all abortion care
Legal analysis on the ruling is still coming in, but here’s the bottom line: The Supreme Court is giving the green light to extremists across the country to outright ban abortion — and Texas will be the number one battleground. For decades, Texas lawmakers have pushed the most extreme attacks on abortion. If we’re going