Andrea Grimes Posts

Two years after Texas lawmakers passed the omnibus anti-abortion law HB 2, which brought thousands of orange-clad protesters to the state capitol in support of reproductive rights, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the most restrictive provisions of HB 2 can go into effect.

A New Hampshire Republican state lawmaker wrote in a blog post last week that U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-NH) will lose her re-election bid because she is “ugly as sin” and facing off against a more attractive Republican opponent.

At the Texas Tribune Festival last weekend, Gov. Rick Perry theorized that if New York regulated abortion providers the way Texas does now, comedian Joan Rivers might not have died from complications after having throat surgery in New York City.

Eight: the number of legal abortion providers that, barring a federal court’s intervention, will remain in Texas as of Monday, September 1, when the final provision of Texas’ omnibus anti-abortion law, HB 2, goes into effect.

Despite the work I do as an activist journalist, I’ve been contributing to abortion stigma by not always speaking plainly about the work that I do, and that I’ve dedicated my life to. I’ve been afraid of starting arguments, of offending friends and family members, of ostracizing myself as the abortion lady.

A San Antonio Navy veteran who is 24 weeks pregnant says she has been denied the medically necessary methadone treatment she needs to maintain a healthy pregnancy while she is incarcerated in Texas’ Guadalupe County Jail due to a parole violation for past drug charges resulting from her attempts to self-medicate from heroin withdrawal.

Erick Munoz awoke to his son’s cries in the wee hours of November 26, sure that he’d heard his wife, Marlise, get up to grab 14-month-old Mateo a bottle. When he got up to investigate, he found Marlise collapsed on the floor of their North Texas home, with no heartbeat and not breathing. A paramedic, Erick Munoz tried to resuscitate his wife and called for an ambulance.

A Fort Worth, Texas, hospital says it has no choice but to keep a pregnant woman on life support until the fetus she is carrying can be delivered, something her family says goes against her end-of-life directives.

Two years after conservative legislators in Texas cut state family planning funds by two-thirds, newly released data from the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) shows that state contractors are seeing 77 percent fewer family planning clients at an increased cost of 17 percent per client.

A new report shows that Texans in the Rio Grande Valley are now unable to access the affordable reproductive health care that was available to them just a few years ago, before conservative state legislators drastically cut family planning funds, causing more than a quarter of the area’s family planning clinics to shutter.

One anti-choice organization is having a real good chuckle about the people affected by HB 2, the Texas omnibus anti-abortion law that has forced one-third of the state’s abortion facilities to cease providing abortion procedures.

To the alarm of environmental groups, oil giant Shell announced on Thursday it was making plans to be able to resume the hunt for oil in Arctic waters in 2014. "Our focus would be very much on the Chukchi [Sea], which is by far the biggest prize; that is the multi-billion barrel prize."

The CEO of TransCanada, the corporation behind the tar sands-carrying Keystone XL, recognized the power of activists in fighting the project but said that even a rejection from the White House won't deter the pipeline from being completed.

Californians are expected to have better access to abortion care now that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed two new laws, AB 154 and AB 980, allowing more medical professionals to provide first-trimester abortions and allowing abortion facilities to meet the same standards as primary care clinics.

In what has become an all-too-familiar news story, another deadly fire has broken out at a garment factory in Bangladesh on Tuesday. At least 10 people were killed and scores were injured from the blaze at a factory in Gazipur, near the capital of Dhaka.

According to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency spies on international credit card and banking transactions in a program called "Follow the Money," German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday.

In a bizarre, rambling campaign speech to the Texas Alliance for Life last month, a Republican candidate for Texas attorney general told anti-choice supporters that the millions of “children” aborted since Roe v. Wade would have made a nice Republican voting base, if only their parents had been unable to abort them.

The shift from traditional pensions to 401(k) retirement plans has been a "disaster," fueling inequality and creating more insecure retirement for most Americans, a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute shows.

Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning's legal team filed her request for a presidential pardon on Tuesday. The pardon document will be available starting Wednesday at pardon.bradleymanning.org, the Private Manning Support Network said.

In another sign of undue corporate influence, a new study has found widespread conflicts of interest by the people deciding whether food additives are determined to be "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) over the past 15 years.