Selected Work
Texas Maternal Mortality Committee's Report Will Skip Post-Roe Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence, The Texas Observer, Aug. 17, 2026
The "Messy" Plaintiffs Behind So Many Anti-Abortion Lawsuits, Mother Jones, April 20, 2026
Ken Paxton's "Shoddy" Prosecution of A Midwife Is Part of A Strategy to Expand His Power, The Texas Observer, Feb. 18, 2026
Texas Extremists Are Trying Everything to Block Abortion Medication, The Nation, Sept. 18, 2025
Texas Charges a Midwife in the First Arrest Under the State’s Abortion Ban, The Nation, March 19, 2025
Republican Abortion Laws Are ‘Torturing Women.’ Can the GOP Fix Its Own Crisis?, The Texas Observer, March 26, 2025
Planning for the Worst in Trump’s Next Term: Prepare, Don’t Panic, and Don’t Comply In Advance, Mother Jones, Jan. 30, 2025
Cecile Richards Isn't Giving Up the Fight, The Texas Observer, Jan. 20 2024
This Conservative Texas Town Defeated an Extreme Abortion Travel Ban, Mother Jones, Nov. 6, 2024
Texas Is Fighting to Access Out-of-State Abortion Medical Records, The Nation, Oct. 24, 2024
The Far-Right Wants to End Out-of-State Abortion, Amarillo is in the Way, The Texas Observer, Sept. 10, 2024
Texas Women Denied Abortions for Ectopic Pregnancies Demand Federal Investigation, The Guardian, August 13, 2024
A New Study Confirms That the Texas Abortion Ban “Is Responsible” for a Rise in Infant Deaths, The Nation, July 9, 2024
'They Have No Options’: Texas Court Dims Hope of Timely Abortion Care for High-Risk Patients, The Guardian, June 8, 2024
Fearing Legal Threats, Doctors Are Performing C-Sections in Lieu of Abortions, The Nation, April 17, 2024
Kate Cox’s Doctor Is Still Fighting to Provide Emergency Abortions, Despite Legal Threats, Texas Monthly, Feb. 7, 2024
'Stunning’ Threat in Texas Abortion Case Steps Up Paxton Criminalization Crusade, The Guardian, Dec. 12, 2023
For the First Time in 50 Years, a Judge Has Decided Whether One Woman Could Get an Abortion, The Nation, Dec. 8, 2023
The Last Independent Reproductive Health Clinics in Texas Struggle to Survive, Texas Monthly, Oct. 19, 2023
After a Decade of State-Led Attacks, Texas Seeks to Bankrupt Planned Parenthood, NPR-Texas Affiliates, Sept. 15, 2023
Abortion Providers On Two Years Of Texas Ban: 'A devastating reality,' The Guardian, August 31, 2023
Texas is 'Hell-Bent' On Preventing Pregnant Patients From Getting Life-Saving Abortion Care, The Nation, August 14, 2023
Testifying Against Texas, Women Denied Abortions Relive Pregnancies That Almost Killed Them, The Intercept, July 21, 2023
Time Is Running Out For Texas Republicans To Clarify Exceptions in Abortion Law, The Nation, May 16, 2023
The First “Wrongful Death” Case For Helping a Friend Get An Abortion, The Intercept, April 26, 2023
It’s Dangerous For Black Women to Give Birth in Texas, and It Could Be About to Get Worse, The Guardian, March 17, 2023
Trump Judge's Ruling Could Ban Abortion Pill Across the US, The Guardian, Feb. 9, 2023
Texas Lawmakers Plan to Further Decimate Abortion Rights In Upcoming Legislative Session, The Intercept, Dec. 26, 2022
To Protect Her Twin Baby, Texas Woman Was Forced to Seek Abortion Care Out of State, NPR-Texas, Nov. 2, 2022
How One Progressive City Is Fighting to Decriminalize Abortion, The Nation, August 15, 2022
‘At Death’s Door’: Abortion Bans Endanger Lives of High-Risk Patients, Texas Study Shows, The Guardian, July 13, 2022
The Texas Abortion Ban Has Turned Clinics Into Travel Agencies, Mother Jones, June 22, 2022
Texas Abortion Providers Feel “Ignored” by the Biden Administration, Texas Monthly, April 4, 2022
Texas Is the Future of Abortion in America, The New York Times, March 6, 2022
‘A Grave Warning’: Six Months of Texas Abortion Ban Sow Fear and Anguish, The Guardian, March 3, 2022
Public Funding Pouring Into Texas Anti-Abortion CPCs While Abortion Access Hangs in the Balance, Mother Jones, Feb. 1, 2022
The Texas Abortion Ban Could Usher in a Wave of Pregnancy-Related Deaths, The Nation, Jan. 13, 2022
Texas Abortion Ban Is Having a 'Domino Effect' on Clinics Across the U.S., The Texas Observer, Nov. 18, 2021
Long Before the Near-Total Ban, Texas Was Home to the Most Abortion Deserts in the U.S., The Texas Observer, Oct. 21, 2021
Texas Abortion Providers Are Hitting Their Limits, The Nation, Oct. 14, 2021
The Legal Mind Behind America’s Most Extreme Abortion Law, The Guardian, Oct. 10, 2021
Texas’ Long History of Hollowing Out Women’s Health Care, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2021
Most extreme abortion law in US takes effect in Texas, The Guardian, Sept. 1, 2021
Legal Dangers Loom Large for Texas Abortion Care, The Austin Chronicle, Aug. 23, 2021
Planned Parenthood files lawsuit against Texas’s extreme abortion ban, The Guardian, July 14, 2021
'It's Easy to Dismiss Black Women's Lives' Texas Drags Feet on Maternal Mortality Crisis, The Guardian, May 30, 2021
Texas Governor Signs Extreme Six-Week Abortion Ban into Law, The Guardian, May 19, 2021
The Five-Year Campaign to Take Away Health Care From Texans, Rewire News Group, Jan. 25, 2021
Texas Is Once Again Ground Zero for the Abortion Rights Fight, Rewire News Group, Nov. 16, 2020
State Officials Tried to Cut Women’s Health Care During a Pandemic, The Texas Observer, Sept. 29, 2020
After a Month of Chaos, Abortion Care Returns to Texas, The Austin Chronicle, May 1, 2020
'It Wears on Your Soul': COVID Has Created an Abortion Nightmare in Texas, VICE, April 27, 2020
Texas Anti-Choice Legislation Continues to Damage Health Care and Undermine Local Control, The Austin Chronicle, May 17, 2019
Debunking Five Anti-Choice Lies This Session, The Austin Chronicle, April 24, 2019
A Peek Into the New Lege's Anti-Choice Plan, The Austin Chronicle, Nov. 23, 2018
Whole Woman's Health Caught Up in Anti-Abortion Turf War, The Austin Chronicle, Feb. 22, 2019
Fetal Burial Trial Ends with Unanswered Questions, The Austin Chronicle, July 20, 2018
Wonder how Kavanaugh will rule on abortion? Look no further than his record in Texas, The Austin Chronicle, Oct. 26, 2018
Deep Divisions in Texas' Powerful Anti-Choice Movement, The Austin Chronicle, April 6, 2018
Bills Grant Texas Doctors Legal Cover to Mislead Pregnant Women, The Austin Chronicle, April 14, 2017
Despite State's Opposition, Judge Grants Abortion to Undocumented Minor Held Hostage, The Austin Chronicle, Oct. 20, 2017
An Undue Burden: U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Pro-Choice Texans, The Austin Chronicle, July 1, 2016
Live From D.C.: HB 2 U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments, The Austin Chronicle, March 2, 2016
Roe's End? SCOTUS Will Decide Fate of Abortion Access in U.S., The Austin Chronicle, Jan. 29, 2016
Defund Planned Parenthood, Jeopardize Lives, The Austin Chronicle, Feb. 13, 2015
HB 2: A SCOTUS Pause Before the Next Storm, The Austin Chronicle, Oct. 24, 2014
Meet the Anti-Abortion Wordsmith Defending HB 2, The Austin Chronicle, Aug. 22, 2014
All But Illegal: As HB 2 Looms, Texas Abortion Clinics Brace For Closure, The Austin Chronicle, July 25, 2014
Suffer the Children: Texas Lege Targets Judicial Bypass for Teens, The Austin Chronicle, May 22, 2015
While Cutting Family Planning, Lawmakers Divert Millions to Crisis Pregnancy Centers, The San Antonio Current Nov. 12, 2013
Anti-Abortion Bill Officially Advanced by Texas House, The San Antonio Current, July 9, 2013
Notorious Abortion Bill Inspired by Draft Legislation From National Anti-Abortion Group, The San Antonio Current, July 2, 2013
Texas Woman Searches For Health Care As State Officials Move To Defund Planned Parenthood, The Huffington Post, Oct. 29, 2012
Choose Life License Plates Would Be Boon to Faith-Based CPCs, The American Independent News Network, Jan. 26, 2011
Is Texas’ reproductive health care in jeopardy?, Salon, Nov. 12, 2012
Sonogram law widens the door to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, The Texas Independent, Feb. 16, 2012
Amid State Funding Plan, Doubt Over Displaced WHP Client Care Remains, The Texas Independent, April 24, 2012
State-funded Pregnancy Center Conflates Religious, Educational Material, The Texas Independent, March 29, 2011