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Eleanor Klibanoff

Eleanor Klibanoff is the women's health reporter at The Texas Tribune. She was previously with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, where she covered sexual assault, domestic violence and policing, among other things. She has worked at public radio stations in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Missouri, as well as NPR, and her work has aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Here & Now. She lives in Austin with her enormous cat, Grover Cleveland.

 

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Rep. Tony Gonzales asked for explicit photos from aide who later died by suicide

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Tony Gonzales accuses dead staffer’s husband of trying to blackmail him amid affair scandal

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President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott participate in a round table event on July 11, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Greg Abbott’s comments backfired in court to doom Texas gerrymander

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears at a pretrial hearing in his securities fraud case before state District Judge Andrea Beall in the 185th District Court Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courts at Law in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Ken Paxton’s legal crusade against Beto O’Rourke is faltering before Republican appeals court

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The Texas State Capitol is seen during a Texas Senate flooding committee hearing at the State Capitol. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

In redistricting clash, Texas GOP flexes power to shut down Democrats’ last tool of resistance

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Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference on July 08, 2025. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats

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Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Opponents rip Texas GOP scheme to redraw map at first hearing: “I got screaming mad”

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The Texas State Capitol is seen on the first day of the 87th Legislature's third special session on September 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images)

Anti-abortion Texas Republican denies funding “several abortions” in affair

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears at a pretrial hearing in his securities fraud case before state District Judge Andrea Beall in the 185th District Court Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courts at Law in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Texas State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton

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Mifepristone (Mifeprex) and Misoprostol, the two drugs used in a medication abortion (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

With lawsuits and legislation, Texas Republicans take aim at abortion pills

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The interior of a women's health clinic. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Court says Texas can ban emergency life-saving abortions despite federal guidance

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Abortion drug pills and drinking water (Getty Images/Peter Dazeley)

Texas man who sued woman’s friends over abortion hit with countersuit

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Woman with abortion pill and glass. (Liudmila Chernetska/Getty Images)

Texas man sues three women for “wrongful death” for helping his ex-wife obtain abortion medication

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In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

For the first time, women denied abortions file lawsuit against new ban

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

How Texas’ abortion laws turned a heartbreaking fetal diagnosis into a cross-country journey

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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV preventative drug (Daniel Born/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Religious employers need not cover PrEP in their health plans, federal judge rules

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Texas abortion providers now face up to life in prison, $100,000 fine after “trigger” law kicks in

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The interior of a women's health clinic. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Lawyers preparing for abortion prosecutions sound the alarm on health care data privacy

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Getty Images)

Judge temporarily blocks Texas AG Ken Paxton’s plan to immediately enforce pre-Roe abortion ban

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The interior of a women's health clinic. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Pandemonium, then silence: Inside a Texas abortion clinic after the fall of Roe

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The interior of a women's health clinic. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A Texas abortion clinic survived decades of restrictions. SCOTUS may finally put it out of business

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images)

Pro-gun GOP donors call on Greg Abbott and Congress pass firearm restrictions after Uvalde shooting

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool/Getty Images)

A gun and a prayer: How the far right took control of Texas’ response to mass shootings

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Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Distraught over orders to investigate trans kids’ families, Texas child welfare workers resign

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