https://www.texastribune.org/about/staff/eleanor-klibanoff/The latest news by Eleanor Klibanoff.enMon, 13 May 2024 15:54:49 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/13/texas-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ivf/The Texas Supreme Court is considering taking up the question of whether frozen embryos should be treated as people, not property, in a divorce case.By Eleanor KlibanoffMon, 13 May 2024 15:54:49 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/13/texas-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ivf/https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/10/texas-courts-abortion-jonathan-mitchell/Jonathan Mitchell has filed at least nine petitions seeking information from abortion activists, doctors and women. None have resulted in a deposition.By Eleanor KlibanoffFri, 10 May 2024 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/10/texas-courts-abortion-jonathan-mitchell/Attorney Jonathan Mitchell speaks before the Texas Supreme Court on Oct. 28, 2021Attorney Jonathan Mitchell speaks before the Texas Supreme Court on Oct 28, 2021.Supreme Court of Texas YouTube channelhttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/texas-medical-board-abortion/The proposed guidance from the Texas Medical Board would require doctors to document whether there was time to transfer a patient “by any means available” to avoid performing an abortion.By Eleanor KlibanoffThu, 25 Apr 2024 13:04:09 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/texas-medical-board-abortion/Members of the public and media listen during the Texas Medical Board Full Board Meeting in the George H.W. Bush Building in Austin, Texas on Mar. 22, 2024. All the seats in the room were filled as everyone listened while they talked about agenda item number 28, ‘Consideration and possible action on rules regarding exceptions to the ban on abortions.’Members of the public and media listen during the Texas Medical Board Full Board Meeting in the George H.W. Bush Building in Austin, Texas on Mar. 22, 2024. All the seats in the room were filled as everyone listened while they talked about agenda item number 28, ‘Consideration and possible action on rules regarding exceptions to the ban on abortions.’Maria Crane/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/17/texas-idaho-supreme-court-abortion-emergency-care/Hospitals are required to stabilize anyone experiencing a medical emergency. Two lawsuits question whether that includes performing an abortion, despite state laws.By Eleanor KlibanoffWed, 17 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/17/texas-idaho-supreme-court-abortion-emergency-care/An Austin-Travis County EMS unit parked near a hospital's emergency entrance in Austin on July 7, 2020.An Austin-Travis County EMS unit parked near a hospital's emergency entrance in Austin on July 7, 2020.Allie Goulding/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/08/texas-title-x-contraception-teens/Federal Title X clinics do not require parental consent for birth control — except in Texas, where a lawsuit upended the longstanding program.By Eleanor KlibanoffMon, 08 Apr 2024 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/08/texas-title-x-contraception-teens/Various birth control pills available at a Planned Parenthood in Austin.Various birth control pills available at a Planned Parenthood in Austin.Todd Wiseman/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/30/texas-woman-sues-abotion-arrest-starr-county/The Starr County district attorney dropped the improper charges, but the fallout “forever changed the Plaintiff’s life,” a new federal lawsuit says.By Eleanor KlibanoffSat, 30 Mar 2024 10:41:04 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/30/texas-woman-sues-abotion-arrest-starr-county/The Starr County jail in Rio Grande City. A Texas woman is suing the Starr County district attorney in South Texas after he charged with her murder following an abortion. The chargers were dropped.The Starr County Jail in Rio Grande City on Saturday. The District Attorney is dropping the charges against Lizelle Herrera, a woman who was indicted with murder for a "self-induced abortion."Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/26/texas-abortion-pill-supreme-court/A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed open to keeping mifepristone, a common abortion-inducing drug, on the market despite a Texas ruling revoking its FDA approval.By Eleanor KlibanoffTue, 26 Mar 2024 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/26/texas-abortion-pill-supreme-court/People visit the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on March 10, 2022.People visit the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on March 10, 2022.Eric Lee for the Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/26/texas-greg-abbott-ivf/Abbott stopped short of calling on the Legislature to take actions to protect IVF after a Alabama court ruling threw fertility treatments into legal limbo in that state.By Eleanor KlibanoffMon, 26 Feb 2024 10:34:36 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/26/texas-greg-abbott-ivf/Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about the recent 88th Legislative Session to an audience at the Texas Public Policy Foundation offices in Austin, on June 2, 2023. Abbott recounted policy victories in regards to fentanyl and the border crisis, as well as limiting gender affirming care and banning DEI practices in higher education.Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about the recent 88th Legislative Session to an audience at the Texas Public Policy Foundation offices in Austin, on June 2, 2023. Abbott recounted policy victories in regards to fentanyl and the border crisis, as well as limiting gender affirming care and banning DEI practices in higher education. Abbott ended the event by promising to call a special session for school choice, after the current special session for property tax resolves.Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/23/university-texas-tyler-texas-private-equity-malpractice/A lawsuit claims UT Tyler Health Science Center is trying to pull the veil of governmental immunity over doctors who do all of their work for a for-profit, private equity-backed health care system.By Eleanor KlibanoffFri, 23 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/23/university-texas-tyler-texas-private-equity-malpractice/Michelle Simington shows a photo of her father-in-law Mike Simington before he passed away at 71. By the time he learned he had prostate cancer, it had spread to his bones.Michelle Simington shows a photo of her father in law before he passed away at 71. By the time Mike learned he had prostate cancer, it had spread to his bones.Greta Díaz González Vázquez for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/09/texas-abortion-transgender-care-outside-state-borders/Recent state and local legal maneuvers signal that Texas’ conservative movement could be wading into a complicated constitutional morass the country hasn’t dealt with since before the Civil War.By Eleanor Klibanoff and William MelhadoFri, 09 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/09/texas-abortion-transgender-care-outside-state-borders/A view of the U.S. and Texas flags flown on the south side of the Texas Capitol in Austin on Aug. 12, 2021.A view of the U.S. and Texas flags flown on the south side of the Texas Capitol from the Capitol Dome in Austin on Aug. 12, 2021.Sophie Park/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/26/texas-abortion-fertility-rate-increase/More than 16,000 babies were born in Texas in 2022 than in 2021, a new study from the University of Houston shows.By Eleanor KlibanoffFri, 26 Jan 2024 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/26/texas-abortion-fertility-rate-increase/Over 100 people gather for an abortion rights rally at the federal courthouse in San Antonio on May 3, 2022, after a Supreme Court opinion draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked the night before.Over 100 people gather for an abortion rights rally at the federal courthouse in San Antonio on May 3, 2022, after a Supreme Court opinion draft that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked the night before.Kaylee Greenlee Beal for the Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/24/texas-kate-cox-biden-state-of-the-union/The Supreme Court of Texas ruled against Cox’s lawsuit to block the state’s abortion ban. She traveled out of state to have an abortion.By Eleanor KlibanoffWed, 24 Jan 2024 14:35:41 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/24/texas-kate-cox-biden-state-of-the-union/Kate Cox of Dallas, who sought a court order to block Texas abortion ban, has been invited to attend President Biden’s State of the Union address in March.Kate Cox of Dallas is asking a Travis Co. district judge to grant a temporary restraining order against the state abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy.Courtesy of Kate Coxhttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/02/texas-abortion-fifth-circuit/The Biden administration reminded hospitals of their obligation to perform life-saving abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Texas sued, arguing it was an overstep that mandated abortions.By Eleanor KlibanoffTue, 02 Jan 2024 17:22:08 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/02/texas-abortion-fifth-circuit/An examination room in Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio on June 14, 2022.An examination room in Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services in San Antonio on June 14, 2022.Kylie Cooper/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-medical-board-abortion/The Texas Supreme Court has asked the licensing board to offer doctors guidance on how to interpret the medical exception to the state’s abortion ban. Some doctors say that wouldn’t be enough reassurance.By Eleanor KlibanoffThu, 21 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-medical-board-abortion/Amanda Zurawski, Samantha Casiano, Molly Duane, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Ashley Brandt, address the press following the first day of testimony for Zurawski v. State of Texas outside the Travis County Civil and Family Courts Facility in Austin on July 19, 2023.Amanda Zurawski, Samantha Casiano, Molly Duane, senior staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Ashley Brandt, address the press following the first day of testimony for Zurawski v. State of Texas outside the Travis County Civil and Family Courts Facility in Austin on July 19, 2023.Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/13/texas-abortion-lawsuit/The Dallas mom’s case drew national attention and forced the abortion issue before the state Supreme Court. She ended up traveling out of state to terminate her non-viable pregnancy.By Eleanor KlibanoffWed, 13 Dec 2023 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/13/texas-abortion-lawsuit/The Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 15, 2020.The Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 15, 2020.Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsuit-kate-cox/The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Kate Cox did not qualify for an abortion under the medical exception to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Just hours prior, Cox’s lawyers said she’d traveled out of state to have the procedure.By Eleanor KlibanoffMon, 11 Dec 2023 14:01:38 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/11/texas-abortion-lawsuit-kate-cox/Protestors holding a variety of signs during a protest, hosted by Bans Off Our Bodies Fort Worth, on Oct. 8, 2022 outside of the Tarrant County Courthouse in downtown Fort Worth.Protestors holding a variety of signs showing support of women's rights, listen to a speaker during a Women's Wave protest, hosted by Bans Off Our Bodies Fort Worth, on Oct. 8, 2022 outside of the Tarrant County Courthouse in downtown Fort Worth.Ben Torres for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/08/texas-abortion-lawsuit-ken-paxton/After a Travis County district judge cleared the way for Kate Cox, 31, to terminate her pregnancy, Ken Paxton petitioned the state’s highest court to halt the ruling.By Eleanor KlibanoffFri, 08 Dec 2023 15:02:21 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/08/texas-abortion-lawsuit-ken-paxton/The Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 15, 2020.The Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 15, 2020. Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/07/texas-emergency-abortion-lawsuit/Kate Cox, 31, at 20 weeks pregnant, has learned her fetus has a lethal abnormality that is almost always fatal at birth.By Eleanor Klibanoff and Neelam BohraThu, 07 Dec 2023 10:06:28 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/07/texas-emergency-abortion-lawsuit/Kate Cox of Dallas is asking a Travis Co. district judge to grant a temporary restraining order against the state abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy.Kate Cox of Dallas is asking a Travis Co. district judge to grant a temporary restraining order against the state abortion ban so she can terminate her pregnancy.Courtesy of Kate Coxhttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/texas-abortion-lawsuit/In an emergency request, the Center for Reproductive Rights is asking a judge to allow Kate Cox to terminate her pregnancy after she received a lethal fetal diagnosis.By Eleanor KlibanoffTue, 05 Dec 2023 11:27:34 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/texas-abortion-lawsuit/People gather for an abortion rights rally at the federal courthouse in San Antonio on May 3, 2022People gather for an abortion rights rally at the federal courthouse in San Antonio on May 3, 2022.Kaylee Greenlee Beal for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/28/texas-supreme-court-abortion/In August, a judge ruled that the state’s near-total abortion ban should not apply to medically complicated pregnancies. The state appealed that ruling to the Texas Supreme Court, putting it on hold.By Eleanor KlibanoffTue, 28 Nov 2023 15:31:56 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/28/texas-supreme-court-abortion/President of Center for Reproductive Rights Nancy Northup speaks at a press conference announcing the filing of Zurawski v. State of Texas, at the Capitol on March 7, 2023. The lawsuit demands clarity from the state on what constitutes a “medical emergency” exception to abortion bans.President of Center for Reproductive Rights Nancy Northup speaks at a press conference announcing the filing of Zurawski v. State of Texas, at the Capitol on March 7, 2023. The lawsuit demands clarity from the state on what constitutes a “medical emergency” exception to abortion bans.Leila Saidane/The Texas Tribune