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The Texas Supreme Court last month, in Zurawski v. State of Texas, ruled against a group of women who had sued after they were denied abortions despite serious health complications during ...
The Texas Supreme Court hears oral arguments for Zurawski v. State of Texas in Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. The The plaintiffs, 20 women who were denied abortions despite severe pregnancy complications ...
May 22, 2023 at 7:36 PM. Jessica Bernardo, who has joined the Texas abortion lawsuit, at her home in the Dallas area on May 18. (LM Otero/AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) Eight more women have joined a ...
Women in Texas did not have any voting rights when Texas was a republic (1836-1846) or after it became a state in 1846. Suffrage for Texas women was first raised at the Constitutional Convention of 1868-1869 when Republican Titus H. Mundine of Burleson County proposed that the vote be given to all qualified persons regardless of gender. [394]
Women's suffrage efforts in Texas began in 1868 at the first Texas Constitutional Convention. In both Constitutional Conventions and subsequent legislative sessions, efforts to provide women the right to vote were introduced, only to be defeated. Early Texas suffragists such as Martha Goodwin Tunstall and Mariana Thompson Folsom worked with ...
In Columbus, Ohio on May 3, hundreds of protesters marched around the Ohio Statehouse to protest August 2023 Ohio Issue 1, the Republican-backed resolution to require 60% voter approval to amend the Ohio state constitution to be voted on in August 2023, three months before a proposed abortion rights amendment on the ballot would take place in ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday scrutinized efforts to clarify exceptions to the state's abortion ban, which a growing number of women say forced them to continue pregnancies despite serious ...
Women's suffrage was brought up in Texas at the first state constitutional convention, which began in 1868. However, there was a lack of support for the proposal at the time to enfranchise women. Women continued to fight for the right to vote in the state. In 1918, women gained the right to vote in Texas primary elections.