Roe v. Wade

AG Paxton Files Emergency Motion with Texas Supreme Court in Support of Pre-Roe Statutes Barring Abortions

AG Ken Paxton

AUSTIN –This week Attorney General Paxton asked the Supreme Court of Texas to vacate a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement Texas’s pre-Roe criminal prohibitions on elective abortion. A Harris County district court previously issued the restraining order at the request of a group of abortion clinics that […]

Harris County Court Blocks Enforcement of Pre-Roe Laws

Houston, Texas (June 28, 2022)— Today a Harris County court issued a ruling that temporarily bans certain prosecutors from enforcing Texas’s abortion bans that predate Roe v Wade. Attorney General Ken Paxton had previously said that prosecutors could pursue criminal charges based […]

Sen. Cruz on the Dobbs decision: ‘Nothing Short of a Massive Victory for Life’

Senator Ted Cruz

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case:   “The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, […]