Texas lawmakers are racing to toward the June 2 finish line for the 2025 legislative session. Here are some of the highlights of Thursday's action. Anti-communism education bill sails through House The Texas House voted overwhelmingly to require public school students to learn about “historical events and atrocities” that took place under communist regimes,

A federal judge ruled this week that language accommodating abortion must be removed from the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David Joseph in the Western District of Louisiana,

According to a first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis of state hospital discharge data, while the rates of dangerous infections spiked across Texas after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston were far more likely to get gravely ill than those in Dallas.

Texas has heard what the original ban cost its pregnant population and doubled down in a profoundly baffling way.

An anti-abortion monument is one step closer to being installed at the Texas Capitol after the Texas House on Tuesday approved a resolution authorizing its construction.

Georgia's "heartbeat law" ​is among the restrictive abortion statutes that have been put in place in many conservative states.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, known for rulings limiting access to a key abortion drug, has struck down EEOC guidance protecting transgender employees. The post ‘Metastasized definition of sex’: Trump-appointed judge known for anti-abortion rulings strikes down transgender workplace protections first appeared on Law & Crime.

Some hemp retailers are looking at other states, while others say they are ready to take Texas to court over a THC ban.