Rex and Buffer are Texas companies that are responding to the post-Dobbs world by implementing more pro-life policies to discourage abortion.
The law became effective 30 days after the release of the court's judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson.
The Texas law prohibiting virtually all abortions unless the mother’s life is at stake takes effect Thursday.
Johnson is emphasizing her opposition to “blanket policies” designed to avoid prosecuting certain cases of theft and other offenses.
A federal jury in Dallas awarded compensation and punitive damages to a Southwest flight attendant fired for her religious and political beliefs.
Athens was the setting for thousands of illegal abortions before the U.S. Supreme Court established abortion rights in Roe v. Wade.
Council members passed a resolution in committee to protect abortion access, but the city must still comply with state laws against abortion.
Originally an end run around Roe, civil liability for abortions seems likely to expand in Texas law and local ordinances.
Two felony prosecutors with the Ector County district attorney's office shared how they secured a murder conviction in the death of a five-week-old unborn child.
Though elective abortion is already a crime in Texas, the Human Life Protection Act will make it a first-degree felony.
One resolution declares that city funds will not be used to surveil or collect information about abortions.
"It's wonderful," Socha said of the Texas abortion ban, "But it doesn't do away with people who have crisis pregnancies and need help.”
