The last two years have been full of worries for Yvette Pierce. Five of her family members fell ill with COVID-19, her husband’s job cut his hours and for a month Pierce’s toddler, who has ...
Kayla Gomez is making the roof shake. The force of her gloved fists against a heavy punching bag, hung from a wood ceiling beam, kicks up dust that’s blown into the carport-turned-boxing gym after weeks ...
In mid-December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permanently lifted its requirement that patients take abortion-inducing drugs in the presence of a health care professional, clearing the way for patients to receive the medications by ...
El Paso is no longer one of the largest cities in the country without an abortion clinic. The city’s Planned Parenthood, which had stopped performing abortions at the start of the pandemic in 2020, again ...
Roger De Moor has presented his students with an emergency scenario many of them know well: Your 3-year-old has locked themselves in the bathroom. They’re panicking. In a room that looks like a high school ...
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that abortion providers can continue to challenge Texas’ six-week abortion ban in lower courts but did not issue a temporary pause on Senate Bill 8. In an 8-1 decision, ...
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could put an end to Roe v. Wade, and three months after Texas’ six-week abortion ban became law, another anti-abortion measure ...
More than a decade after the most violent years of Juárez’s drug wars, “international attention is not focused on Juárez anymore. Yet the drumbeat of thousands of people killed every year continues,” said UTEP anthropology ...
Family violence cases and sexual assaults have reached their highest levels since at least 2018, according to nearly four years of data from the El Paso Police Department. So far, 2021 has topped the numbers ...
At 34, Robin Krasne’s aunt died of breast cancer. Her father and grandfather died of brain cancer. For her uncle, it was pancreatic cancer. For her cousin, ovarian cancer. “I have way too much cancer in ...
When Femme Frontera held its first filmmakers’ showcase in August 2016, it was supposed to be a one-time thing. Founder Angie Reza Tures wanted to share her new short film with friends and family, but ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard two challenges on Monday to the Texas law that bans most abortions past six weeks and enlists private individuals as its enforcers. Two Trump-appointed justices who had initially allowed the ...
When Lori Edwards told her transgender teenage daughter that Texas’ House Bill 25 had passed, the 14-year-old turned away and started flipping through her phone. “Oh that sucks,” Emily said, and went silent. During the ...
At the start of the pandemic, law enforcement and domestic violence hotlines the world over saw a surge in family violence. This year, incidents of domestic and sexual violence have continued to rise in El ...
Though Texas’ six-week abortion ban has triggered alarm and distress for abortion patients and providers throughout the state, in some ways, not much has changed for El Paso. Since Sept. 1, Senate Bill 8 has ...
When the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban took effect in Texas on Sept. 1, Perla Galindo was 1,700 miles from El Paso. In Seattle, the left-leaning city where she now lives, Galindo says many feel ...
With all eyes on the Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, another bill regulating the use and distribution of abortion medications — and creating a jailable offense for those who ...
On Aug. 6, Erica Marin began work as director of the El Paso Museum of History, and in so doing, carved out her own space in the museum’s nearly 50-year history — becoming the first ...
The tiny store on Calle Ecuador in Ciudad Juárez reminds Sylvia Fernández-Quintanilla of her grandparents, who she would stay with after school while her parents worked. Writing about her trips to the store, she was ...
After five years, Candy Gutierrez has grown used to the stress of being a single mom. There have been times when she’s worried she won’t make rent, or had to ask for help paying the ...
El Paso Planned Parenthood, through its umbrella organization Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, has joined dozens of abortion rights advocates and providers in a federal lawsuit seeking to block the state’s strict new abortion law ...
As El Paso child care providers struggle to restore services in a reopening economy, they’ve faced an unexpected source of competition for workers — the Fort Bliss emergency shelter for migrant children. Local non-profit providers ...
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