Newly released statistics from 2023 show that minors in Texas are traveling out of the state to have abortions and the numbers are rising.

But according to the latest state data available, a number of minors are leaving the state for abortions – and that number rose in 2023 compared to previous years. Taylor Goldenstein, who reports on state politics for the Houston Chronicle, said 105 minors 17 or under left Texas for abortions that we know of in 2023.

A rape victim who was turned away from an event for sexual assault survivors at Toronto Metropolitan University due to her anti-abortion activism has reached settlements with the school and its student union.

Republican Senator Mike Young has introduced a new bill in Indiana that would force women seeking an abortion under the state’s rape and incest exceptions to sign an affidavit and potentially face an investigation and penalties of perjury.

Nonetheless, Texas’ abortion ban, which threatens providers with life in prison among other steep penalties, offers no exception for rape. One year before Roe, in September 2021, the state enacted SB 8,

The number, possibly an undercount, underscores the effect of blocking the procedure for one of the state’s most vulnerable populations.

Texas abortion restrictions are among the strictest in the nation, banning the procedure unless a pregnant person has a "life-threatening condition."

Missouri voters last election approved a constitutional amendment that promised to undo the state’s near-total abortion ban

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The Commission has directed the police to ensure a fair and time-bound investigation and provide the victim with immediate assistance

Current law permits abortion to prevent the death of the mother. Sen. David Yates and Rep. Ken Fleming seek to allow abortions if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.