Waiting for SCOTUS: Ten memorable moments in the fight against HB2

It’s official: Monday morning we will get an answer from the Supreme Court regarding our fight against the Texas omnibus HB2 in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. We have been in this for three years now, ever since Wendy Davis made her historic filibuster. Now, years of small victories and devastating clinic closures are coming …

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House Bill 2 Forces Whole Woman’s Health of Austin to Close

With extremely heavy hearts, we’re announcing today that Whole Woman’s Health of Austin is closing its doors days before our trial against House Bill 2 begins. Austin was our flagship clinic, serving the community of Central Texas with the best abortion care available to women for over ten years. House Bill 2, which passed last …

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Whole Woman’s Health Takes Texas to Court over HB 2.

The trial in our second challenge to Texas’ unconstitutional abortion restrictions will begin at 9AM CT (10AM EST) on Monday, August 4, 2014 in United States District Court in Austin.  We expect the trial to conclude on Thursday, August 7, 2014. Whole Woman’s Health v Lakey is the second challenge to Texas’ House Bill 2 (HB2), …

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18 Days Left: Tell the DSHS to Stop Regulations on Women’s Health.

  After Governor Perry signed the omnibus anti-abortion bill House Bill 2 into law, a timeline was put in place for when the law would go into effect. The first three provisions of the bill, the part requiring doctors who provide abortion care to have hospital admitting privileges, the 20-week ban, and the way in …

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29 Days Left: Continue the Fight.

On Friday, we announced a joint federal lawsuit against the state of Texas to combat House Bill 2, an extremely restrictive law that passed in the state legislature this summer. This morning, we've announced our lawsuit against #HB2 w/ @ReproRights @ACLU @PPact & many more: http://t.co/1ccCJeaOb4 — Whole Woman's Health (@WholeWomans) September 27, 2013 From …

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33 Days Left: A Week of Ceremonies

Yesterday we had an event at our Fort Worth clinic that was hosted by our Founder and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller and by the Center for Reproductive Rights. The event was called #UniteTonight which is in conjunction with Draw the Line, a national movement to pressure the federal government into protecting people from assault on …

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51 Days Left: There’s Nothing Like a Boost in Morale.

You may recall when we posted about one of our clinic doctors resigning in August, not even a month after HB2 had passed and we learned that we needed to have hospital admitting privileges by the end of October. That was obviously a terrible event and it was one of the main reasons that we wanted to …

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57 Days Left: We are Starting to Prepare (and Having a Little Fun)

As you well know, these past few months have been full of ups and downs for us here at Whole Woman’s Health. While many people have jumped onto the advocacy train, as we have ourselves, we’re also focusing on simply being able to keep our doors open. We’ve been looking at Hospital Admitting Privileges, specifically, …

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