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Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

End Texas’ war on women

End Texas’ war on women

Editorial Board January 23, 2024

Almost a year and a half after the implementation of a controversial abortion legislation in Texas, the law has received its first challenge. Kate Cox, a Dallas mother of two, received devastating news...

Say yay to Prop A

Say yay to Prop A

Lauren Hernandez, Assistant Arts & Life Editor April 11, 2023

Stop whatever you are doing and go vote. Local elections are coming up on May 6, with early voting starting April 24, and if you are a San Antonio resident, this election is especially critical. The ballot...

Texas laws stomp on free speech

Texas laws stomp on free speech

Luna Infante, Staff Writer April 4, 2023

Texas State Representative Steve Toth recently introduced HB 2690, which seeks to restrict online access to information regarding abortion and abortion materials. This bill is known as the Women and Child...

Charter aims to codify justice reforms

Charter aims to codify justice reforms

Chloe Williams, Web and Social Editor January 31, 2023

San Antonio Justice Charter is a coalition led by ACT 4 SA, an organization working to shrink the impact of over-policing and mass incarceration in Bexar County, and Ground Game Texas, whose goal is...

Herschel’s hypocrisy

Herschel’s hypocrisy

Malaki Lingg, Assistant Web and Social Editor November 1, 2022

Nationwide we are preparing for the conclusion of the 2022 midterm elections, with Democrats and Republicans displaying the differing beliefs they support. Reproductive rights and access to abortions are...

Overturning fundamental SCOTUS rulings and what this means for the future

Overturning fundamental SCOTUS rulings and what this means for the future

Riley Carroll and Aisla McKay July 6, 2022

When we initially began writing this co-op piece, the majority draft leak intending to overturn the landmark civil rights case Roe v. Wade had just been released. Now that the decision has continued, Roe...

Several signs were displayed by protestors on campus depicting aborted fetuses. Bella Nieto/The Paisano

Anti-abortion demonstration elicits strong emotions

Bella Nieto, News Editor November 2, 2021

Love of Truth Ministries volunteers displayed images of fetuses to aid in explaining their views on abortion in the Sombrilla Plaza on Oct. 27.  Also in the Plaza was a large canvas titled “Free...

Efficiently insufficient

Efficiently insufficient

Areebah Bharmal, Staff Writer October 12, 2021

35 days after one of the most strict abortion laws in the country went into effect and over four months after it was passed, the law was temporarily blocked. Two days later, the ban was reinstated: and...

On-campus organizations give opposing perspectives on the Heartbeat Bill

Briah Ramos, Contributing Writer September 28, 2021

On Sept. 1, The Texas Legislature passed the Heartbeat Bill which restricts women from having an abortion in Texas once a fetal heartbeat is detected by ultrasound. A fetal heartbeat can be detected as...

Senate Bill 8: we should be angry

Senate Bill 8: we should be angry

Jessica McLaren, Staff Writer September 7, 2021

Abortion has remained a polarizing and emotional topic in headlines since long before the ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Roe decided that someone’s right to an autonomous decision regarding abortion...

Texas fuels patriarchy with new abortion law

Texas fuels patriarchy with new abortion law

Editorial Board September 7, 2021

On Wednesday, Sept. 1, Texas legislature passed a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy: voiding the monumental 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court win that established women’s constitutional...

Photo by Lindsey Thomas

Students express opposing views on abortion

Breahna Luera October 30, 2019

Love of Truth Ministries volunteers displayed images of fetuses to aid in explaining their views on abortion in the Sombrilla Plaza on Oct. 23. “We think it’s an atrocity that so many babies are...

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