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The state's two largest anti-abortion groups — which had already been squabbling over strategy — find themselves looking for new legal avenues to press their cause, and appear to disagree on the best path forward. Republican lawmakers were quick to promise an “onslaught of pro-life legislation” when they reconvene in January. But so far, anti-abortion activists appear to be at a loss for a clear, new strategy to push abortion restrictions. (Ura and Pattani, 7/7)

In a new effort to regulate abortion providers, Texas health officials are proposing rules that would require abortion providers to cremate or bury fetal remains. The new rules, proposed by the Health and Human Services Commission, would no longer allow abortion providers to dispose of fetal remains in sanitary landfills, instead allowing only cremation or interment of all remains — regardless of the period of gestation. (Ura, 7/6)

Texas health officials are proposing new rules that would mandate that abortion providers cremate or bury fetal remains. The rules proposed by the Health and Human Services Commission would require that fetal remains be cremated or buried, regardless of the period of gestation. Abortion providers often use third-party special waste services that dispose of remains in sanitary landfills. (Wise, 7/6)

With the Republican National Convention fast approaching, a pro-abortion rights group is working to tie GOP members of Congress who have said they’ll skip the event in Cleveland to their party’s presumptive presidential nominee. NARAL Pro-Choice America kicked off its online advertising blitz Thursday with the slogan #TrumpSquadGoals, linking vulnerable Republican senators and congressmen with anti-abortion views to Donald Trump and GOP party leadership. (Nelson, 7/7)