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Anti-abortion views and activities
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Organizations
[edit]Texas has among the most crisis pregnancy centers of any state, and a Hechinger Report investigation identified more than 35 examples of these crisis pregnancy centers teaching sex education classes in dozens of school districts across Texas.[1] Human Coalition is a Texas anti-abortion organization that operates crisis pregnancy centers.[2] And crisis pregnancy centers, like the Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend in Corpus Christi, Texas, continue to expand post-Roe.[3] Other pregnancy resource centers, like the Truth Pregnancy Resource Center that the First Unitarian Church of Dallas launched, seek to counter misinformation from crisis pregnancy centers.[4]
In September 2023, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued California-based company, Yelp Inc, over crisis pregnancy center labeling. The lawsuit came a day after Yelp preemptively sued Paxton in the Northern District of California arguing that the company's labeling of these centers as not offering abortion services were true, not misleading, and protected free speech. On March 1, 2024, a district court in Texas dismissed the lawsuit brought by Paxton's office.[5]
In April 2021, the Texas Legislature approved $165 million over two years, more than double the 2019 budgeted amount, to fund the Alternatives to Abortion program (recently rebranded to Thriving Texas Families), servicing more than 100,000 pregnant women and parents in 2021 and contracting with several crisis pregnancy centers in the state.[6]
Violence
[edit]There was an arson attack in 1980 at an abortion clinic in Texas. It caused around US$320,000 in damage.[7] 1998 saw six arson attacks, four bombings, one murder and 19 acid attacks take place at abortion clinics across the United States. Butyric acid attacks took place between May and July in Florida, Louisiana and Texas.[7]
In 2000, an act of violence took place at an abortion clinic in Eastland County, Texas.[7] Harris County, which includes Houston, has been home to the most anti-abortion violence in the United States as of 2000 with 10 acts of violence being experienced by clinics.[7] A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas, on April 25, 2007, contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. A bomb squad detonated the device after evacuating the building. Paul Ross Evans (who had a criminal record for armed robbery and theft) was found guilty of the crime.[8]
- ^ Report, By Sarah Butrymowicz and Caroline Preston, The Hechinger (2023-10-02). "'They just tried to scare us': Anti-abortion centers teach sex ed inside some Texas public schools". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Whitman, Elizabeth (2019-05-22). "Arizona Lawmakers Propose $7.5 Million for Texas-Based Anti-Abortion Group". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ "A Texas blueprint for converting the 'abortion-minded': Lattes and a view". Washington Post. 2022-07-31. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ "Dallas church launches a pregnancy center to counter anti-abortion misinformation". KERA News. 2024-04-26. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Irwin, Lauren (2024-03-01). "Texas court dismisses Paxton lawsuit against Yelp over crisis pregnancy center labeling". The Hill. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Astudillo, By Shannon Najmabadi and Carla (2021-06-08). "An anti-abortion program will receive $100 million in the next Texas budget, but there's little data on what's being done with the money". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ a b c d Jacobson, Mireille; Royer, Heather (December 2010). "Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. 3: 189–223. doi:10.1257/app.3.1.189.
- ^ "Fall 2007 Anti-Abortion Violence Intelligence Report". 2007. Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. Retrieved March 26, 2009..