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Pap Tests & HPV: What You Need to Know

January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, and we want to help you take control of your cervical health. More than 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, but it is preventable and detectable. We talked to one of our OB-GYNs about the right timing to get pap tests and when you should receive … Read more

Words of Hope to Keep Us All Going

As we look ahead to 2022, we reflect on the outpouring of support and kind words from abortion allies like you in 2021. You fueled our essential clinic operations and ongoing litigation efforts and helped WWHA and WWH staff keep their heads high during this difficult time. When the news of Texas’ Senate Bill 8 (SB … Read more

One Year Later: The Capitol Attack & Anti-Abortion Extremism

One year ago today, terrorists acting as so-called “patriots” stormed the Capitol as we all watched in horror and lawmakers hid in fear. The escalation of violence and the extremists in attendance were all too familiar for abortion providers. They are inextricably linked, and it shows just what our clinic staff are up against. Several news outlets – from Mother Jones, Vice, Jezebel, Rewire … Read more

There’s still time to support WWHA!

From Amy Hagstrom Miller, President and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health Alliance. This has been a stressful year for abortion providers, patients, and advocates like you. Our resilience has been tested and our reserves have been tapped. We want to thank you for putting your faith and trust in us in the fight against attacks … Read more

“We are still here – for the patients’ sake.”

Meet Telisa. She is a Patient Advocate at Whole Woman’s Health of Austin, our nonprofit independent abortion clinic in Texas. In 2010, Telisa had an abortion. Having spent her career working to support people affected by domestic violence and sexual assault, her eyes were now open to a new calling. She applied to Whole Woman’s … Read more

Fa-La-La Liberate Abortion

Happy Holidays from all of us at WWHA! However you choose to celebrate or spend the holidays and NYE, we hope that you are able to recharge after a life-altering, history-disrupting year.  On our wish list is a world where abortion providers and patients are treated with dignity and respect, not shame and stigma. That’s … Read more

December News: SB 8, upcoming hearings, FDA & more!

This year, we faced a global pandemic, hyperregulation, litigation, and our opposition growing in power and position. Yet this past month has been the most difficult. We are heartbroken as the uncertainties of abortion rights in 2022 become even more clear. We are traumatized to hear those in power talk about the people we serve as though … Read more

Texans deserve better than this.

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to allow Texas abortion providers to continue their legal challenge against Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) but did not grant relief from the law itself. Let us be clear, today’s decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson isn’t a win, and our pathway forward will be tough, but nevertheless we will persist. … Read more

100 DAYS

It’s official: It’s been 100 days since Texas Senate Bill 8, the most extreme abortion ban in our country, went into effect. It’s also been 39 days since the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments and refused to block the law in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, our fight for justice. Every day that SB 8 is allowed to stand is … Read more