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Seemingly undaunted by his failure to push through legislation in 2005 that sought to protect pharmacists of conscience from having to fill scrips for emergency contraceptives, Rep. Frank Corte, R-San Antonio, gears up his 2007 this-is-where-life-begins agenda

Rick Perry's approach to sex education has helped Texas boost its teen pregnancy rate

8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says contraceptives are intended for use prior to pregnancy, meaning employers don't have to cover cost of contraceptives for female patients under health plans

After years of wrangling and delays, FDA accepts a bid to make Plan B emergency contraceptives available for over-the-counter sales t o women 18 and older

Company asserts religious freedom from birth control

Texas is one of the last states to offer new moms coverage

Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?

Where contraception access is strained, Medicaid births rise

Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent

Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent

Women lawmakers endure – and defy – the anti-choice wrath of the Catholic Church

Arizona and Wisconsin legislators try to get in women's pants

But junk science is still all the rage in Texas

What are AISD students learning in sex ed? Gee, that's a hard one.

A handful of bills have been filed on sex education

FDA officials to meet with representatives of Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. about long-stalled plan to sell Barr's emergency contraceptive Plan B sans prescription

Christina Page, author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex, visits Austin

Attorney for the women's rights group challenging feds' refusal to allow over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives says she has proof that Bush administration meddled in FDA drug-approval process

Office of Women's Health official resigns in protest, comes to Austin to speak out

GAO report says rejection of contraceptive may have been made before scientific review

Hearings begin for Supreme Court nomination

A new report finds that federally funded abstinence-only educations contains "false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health."

AISD Teaches Kids About the Birds and Bees

Gears of bureaucracy turn slowly (and sometimes not at all)

We answer your four pressing questions

Four of the worst measures filed (so far) for the 88th