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

YDSA members, pictured at their recent march against police brutality, have participated in several counter-protests since last semester.

YDSA among counter-abortion protesters in Sombrilla Plaza

Mason Hickok, Editor-in-Chief February 21, 2023

Members of UTSA’s chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) counter-protested several pro-life demonstrators in the Sombrilla Plaza this past Wednesday. The demonstrators frequent...

Pro-life movement takes to the street in downtown San Antonio

Pro-life movement takes to the street in downtown San Antonio

Gauri Raje, News Editor January 24, 2023

On the eve of Roe v. Wade’s 50th anniversary, the San Antonio March for Life took place at the Main Plaza in downtown San Antonio. The event occurred six months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe...

Students hold up pro-choice posters as a sign of protest as Kristan Hawkins delivers the speech.

Students for Life hosts pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins; pro-choice students express disapproval

Trigger Warning: Mention of abortion, rape, incest and death. UTSA’s chapter of Students for Life hosted Kristan Hawkins, pro-life activist and founder of Students for Life of America, in the H-E-B...

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...

The hypocrite oath: SB 25

The hypocrite oath: SB 25

Samantha Jones March 8, 2017

There is no rest for women in Texas. Just months after finalizing a mandate that would require medical facilities to provide burials or interments for embryonic material and remains from abortions or...

Pro-life means pro-empathy, pro-women and pro-mothers

Pro-life means pro-empathy, pro-women and pro-mothers

Katelyn Wilkinson October 12, 2016

Of all the hot-button issues in American politics today, abortion is arguably the most heated and divisive. Pro-lifers and pro-choicers fight passionately, sometimes violently, for their causes. In...

The inequality of abortion rights

David Rodriguez October 5, 2016

“So what if abortion ends life?” Reads the title of a 2013 article published in Salon Magazine written by Mary Elizabeth Williams. My initial reaction to seeing the title was sheer sadness. Worse...

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