Magazine Features & Investigations
“You Know What? I’m Not Doing This Anymore.”
Doctors and nurses across Texas say abortion bans pit their ethical obligations to patients facing pregnancy complications against fear of incarceration. Providers are stressed, traumatized—and now, leaving.
Slate, 2023
A months-long investigation into hundreds of in-custody deaths in Texas jails over the last decade.
Texas Observer, 2021
A Glimpse of a Potential Post-Roe Future Through Texas Women’s Stories
A series of narratives ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling about patients trying to access abortions following Texas’ near-total ban, and the toll on mental health, family—everything—of having to wait weeks and travel hundreds of miles.
The Washington Post Magazine, 2022
Texas’ health system has been underfunded, understaffed, and unprepared for years. Here, COVID-19 found the perfect place to spread.
Texas Observer, 2020
In far West Texas, some women have to travel hours to give birth, endangering themselves and their babies. Could midwives help fill in the gap?
Texas Observer, 2020
Inside Texas’ Failed Experiment to Replace Planned Parenthood with an Anti-Abortion Group
The Heidi Group’s quick rise and fall is a cautionary tale of prioritizing politics over proven health providers.
Texas Observer, 2019
A multi-part feature series on the rural health care crisis in Texas, where at least 20 small-town hospitals have closed since 2013, more than one-fifth of the 254 counties have only one doctor or none at all, and large swaths of the state are without any basic reproductive health services.
Texas Observer, 2019
“We’re literally cutting people’s limbs off, when they could just be taking medication,” a researcher said of the Rio Grande Valley’s diabetic amputation crisis. “It’s kind of crazy in a developed country.”
Texas Observer, 2019
A year after Hurricane Harvey, Port Arthur is fighting for survival. Will Texas' disaster recovery process push residents deeper into despair, or help lift them out of it?
Texas Observer, 2018
A Catholic hospital in Austin forces patients who miscarry to consent to fetal burials. For one woman, that made a painful loss even worse — and she worries it could soon become routine across Texas.
Texas Observer, 2018
News & Interviews
Planned Parenthood Returns to Lubbock
In Rural Texas, COVID-19 Contract Tracing is Largely Up to Local Officials, If it Happens at All
Is Texas Inflating its COVID-19 Testing Numbers By Including Antibody Tests?
Texas Health Officials Undercount COVID-19 Cases By Excluding Some Prisoners Who Tested Positive
‘I Think I’m Gonna Die’: Coronavirus Compounds Risk for Dialysis Patients in The Rio Grande Valley
Abortion Clinics in Texas Rely on Traveling Doctors. Coronavirus is Keeping Some of Them Home.
Texas Anti-Abortion Family Planning Group Promised to Serve 70,000 Women. It Served 3,300.
Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol