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Valley abortion fund partners with Planned Parenthood to provide services

Planned Parenthood South Texas has partnered with Frontera Fund to provide Rio Grande Valley residents with sexual and reproductive health services at no cost.

Frontera Fund restarting operations to help with out-of-state abortions

With the help of a federal ruling that protects abortion funds, Frontera Fund has announced that it will once again start its operations to assist Texans who wish to get an out-of-state abortion.

New health care company donates free emergency contraception in RGV

Two local groups are getting help in widening access to emergency contraception.

Signaling continued fight, abortion advocates hold demonstration in McAllen

McALLEN — Come Monday, it will be 45 years since McAllen resident Rosaura “Rosie” Jimenez died because she was denied a legal abortion.

McAllen abortion clinic shuts down as abortions cease throughout Texas

The one clinic that provided abortion services in the Rio Grande Valley ceased providing abortions on Friday following the Supreme Court ruling overturning abortion...

Abortion rights backers rally in Brownsville

Supporters of reproductive rights took to Linear Park on Saturday in Brownsville to demonstrate their anger and perseverance to the U.S. Supreme Court, which potentially could strike down Roe v. Wade.

Woman facing murder charge for ‘illegal abortion’ released from jail

RIO GRANDE CITY — The woman arrested and jailed here on a murder charge stemming from what local authorities say was a “self-induced abortion” has been released.

Changing abortion landscape leads to drop in people seeking help in RGV

Since the state’s enactment of the nation’s strictest abortion law, people in Texas who are pregnant longer than six weeks have been unable to...

Local pro-abortion advocates protest state enactment of state abortion ban

EDINBURG — Pro-abortion advocates from the Rio Grande Valley found themselves exactly where they were about a month-and-a-half ago — on the steps of...

Nonprofit holds contactless bake sale to fund abortion access in RGV

Bakers from across the Rio Grande Valley held a contactless bake sale in an effort to raise money for the region’s only abortion fund. The...