"Women have been competing in the Olympics since 1900 when they were first granted access to participate, but it’s taken decades for pregnancy and parenthood to be acknowledged as a natural part of an elite athlete’s path — and policy still hasn’t caught up."

https://19thnews.org/2026/02/olympic-mom-athletes-lack-child-care-support/

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"Women have been competing in the Olympics since 1900 when they were first granted access to participate, but it’s taken decades for pregnancy and parenthood to be acknowledged as a natural part of an elite athlete’s path — and policy still hasn’t caught up."

https://19thnews.org/2026/02/olympic-mom-athletes-lack-child-care-support/

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"For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors via @ProPublica

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"For the first time since Texas criminalized abortion, the state’s medical regulator is instructing doctors on when they can legally terminate a pregnancy to protect the life of the patient — guidance physicians have long sought as women died and doctors feared imprisonment for intervening."

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medical-board-abortion-training-doctors via @ProPublica

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"The state has for years tracked the number of pregnant people in county jails and incidents of restraints — but now, Texas is also collecting information about their prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. Advocates hope this effort will provide more accountability to a system that incarcerates hundreds of pregnant people each month."

https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-and-childbirth-prisons-ruby-mcpeters-texas-crime-622ef0ad5a62bf48a2e970584a4f3ebc

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"The state has for years tracked the number of pregnant people in county jails and incidents of restraints — but now, Texas is also collecting information about their prenatal care, mental health indicators, pregnancy outcomes and more. Advocates hope this effort will provide more accountability to a system that incarcerates hundreds of pregnant people each month."

https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-and-childbirth-prisons-ruby-mcpeters-texas-crime-622ef0ad5a62bf48a2e970584a4f3ebc

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"A Galveston County man has filed a lawsuit against a California doctor he accuses of providing abortion-inducing pills to his partner, leveraging for the first time a new Texas law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for up to $100,000."

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/texas-california-abortion-pill-lawsuit-bounty-hunter-law-hb-7/

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"A Galveston County man has filed a lawsuit against a California doctor he accuses of providing abortion-inducing pills to his partner, leveraging for the first time a new Texas law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers for up to $100,000."

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/02/texas-california-abortion-pill-lawsuit-bounty-hunter-law-hb-7/

#healthcare #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #courts #texas #txlege #families #privacy #freedom