Health Care

Their Laws. Our Bodies.

Two years after the constitutional right to abortion was eliminated, what’s left of Texans’ reproductive rights is ambiguous.

A measure proposed in the special session would ban physicians from providing almost all abortions.

Patients, families, doctors, and advocates gathered at a health care town hall with Congressman Lloyd Doggett on Sunday.

The Senate bill allows states a huge amount of leeway to get rid of insurance requirements.

It’s already difficult to qualify for Medicaid in Texas. The GOP health care plan would drastically shrink the program.

Even as outbreaks of preventable diseases worry public health officials, anti-vaccination activists blocked legislation to address the problem.

We dig into Abbott's violation of an Austin ordinance in 2011 and detail his controversial vetoes targeting the state's most vulnerable.

Rep. Donna Howard said Abbott’s veto is “disgraceful” and jeopardizes “health and safety of women across the state.”

A sweeping anti-abortion bill leaves prosecutors wide discretion over who is charged for unlawful abortions.

Lawmakers voted to ban the most common form of second trimester abortions and to mandate the burial of fetal remains, among other measures.