Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

The final frenzy before last day of session

"...news on bad bills: SB 103, the plastic bag ban measure from Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, and SB 13..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

State: Give Us That Medicaid Money We Said We Didn’t Want

Texas lost out on a boatload of money when it declined to expand Medicaid. Now it wants that cash.

"...choice provision in Medicaid law. (No funds went toward abortion, instead going for basic preventive health care like birth..."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Texas Legislators Push Through Two Anti-LGBTQ Bills Sunday Night

Bathroom and religious freedom bills both likely to become law

"...amendment, added by Rep. Chris Paddie, R-Marshall, will also ban transgender children from using the bathroom aligning with their..."

May 22, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Texas House Advances Anti-Choice Package Bill

SB 8 bans safest type of second trimester abortion

"...providers to bury or cremate fetal tissue following an abortion and bar the safest type of second trimester abortion...."

May 19, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

The heat is on in the state's House and Senate

"...have equally crippled HB 62, the proposed statewide texting-while-driving ban, by demanding changes that would make it toothless. For..."

May 19, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

On Abortion, Texas Leads in Lying

"Unfounded abortion restrictions often have serious consequences"

"...offenders" in the nation when it comes to crafting abortion laws based on faulty science, according to a new..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

Sine die looms. Do these bills have a shot?

"...took no action on, an anti-choice bill that would ban abortion care coverage from all Texas insurance plans with..."

May 12, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Headlines

"...leads a 13-state coalition supporting Donald Trump's revised travel ban, which halts entry to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority..."

March 31, 2017 News Feature

Oops!

"...Through Anti-Choice Bills" referred to a Senate bill to ban the abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation as..."

March 31, 2017 Column

Senate Speeds Through Anti-Choice Bills

Women's health sees rare victory here in Austin

"...past week, the Texas Senate passed a trio of abortion-restrictive pieces of legislation with little debate. The upper chamber..."

March 24, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The 85th’s State Something

Taking stock at the Lege's midway point

"...Farrar, D-Houston, a searing response to all the GOP's anti-abortion regulation, requiring all men seeking a vasectomy to wait..."

March 17, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The War on Women’s Rights Wages On

The Senate continues its attacks on abortion

"...anti-choice lobby claims the bill discourages doctors from suggesting abortion to evade lawsuits, pro-choice testifiers argued the legislation interferes..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: Toxic Masculinity Drops the Hammer

Standing up to anti-choice rhetoric during a three-bill frenzy at the Capitol

"...Health & Human Services hearing on a trio of abortion restrictions, in which Maggie Hennessy, a master's student at..."

Feb. 24, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Medicaid Patients Face a Future Without Planned Parenthood

“I don’t know where I would go”

"...taken at a PP center in Houston by radical anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress, purporting to show..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Reproductive Rights Advocates Prepare for the Fight

Groups, lawmakers relaunch "Trust. Respect. Access." campaign

"...“Our anti-abortion state leadership and legislators, emboldened by the recent election..."

Feb. 9, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Council Wrap: State of the City

Austin maintains its relative sanity

"...and immigrants caught up in the chaos following the ban. That was not a new promise: In December, Council..."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Texas Lawmaker Wants to Make Abortion Completely Illegal

NARAL Pro-Choice says bill "most extreme" abortion measure at the Lege

"...complete disregard to women’s constitutionally protected right to an abortion, Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, filed a bill this week..."

Jan. 12, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...and clear agendas – budget slashing, gerrymandering, voter suppression, abortion bans – that defined where conflicts would arise. This..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

GOP Targets Women's Health, LGBTQ Community in First Day of Lege Filing

Texas Dems vow to keep up the fight for LGBTQ residents, women

"...Wasting no time, Texas legislators filed three abortion-restrictive bills and the first anti-LGBTQ piece of legislation this..."

Nov. 14, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Q&A Hole: Why Would Someone – Why Would Anyone – Vote for Trump?

With Leslie Bonnell, Arcie Cola, Lashonda Lester, Tim Doyle, and more

"...country and quit mooching off our taxes. Oh, and abortion is murder. Plus, I like him on that TV..."

Nov. 8, 2016 News Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Further Rulings

"...gets the most headlines for big cases like Texas' abortion rights debate and immigration amnesties, while most of their..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Trapped and the War on Women's Health Care

Doc highlights impact of anti-choice laws in the South

"...The abortion clinic, one of the few remaining in the state..."

March 11, 2016 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

Supreme Court to Hear Texas Abortion Case This Week

HB 2 oral arguments start Wednesday

"...on the U.S. Supreme Court, where the most pivotal abortion rights case in more than two decades will be..."

March 1, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Reports, Rappers and (Dis)Enfranchisement

Government may or may not be a farce

"...for low-income women, a punishment for being affiliated with abortion services. – Mary Tuma..."

Feb. 22, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

Page Two: Of Cabbages and Kings

Thoughts on the Constitution, Part I

"...but slowly and inadequately. But meantime they allow legislation banning oral and anal sex? Passed by supposed champions of..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Study: Less Contraception, More Medicaid Births After Planned Parenthood Ban

Where contraception access is strained, Medicaid births rise

"...program, anti-choice legislators – on the hunt to attack abortion providers – gutted it...."

Feb. 3, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Roe's End?

After nearly three years of fighting, Texas reproductive rights advocates will get their day at the U.S. Supreme Court

"...do so – mothers. Some 61% of women undergoing abortion in the U.S. already have at least one child,..."

Jan. 29, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Real Guns, Cardboard Guns in Texas Schools

Firearms groups plan "murder-in" as gun man hides at St. Ed's

"...The murder-in (the opposite of a die-in) is intended..."

Dec. 9, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Medicaid Exclusion

The provider claims the state is breaking federal law

"...claims against the provider, including altering the timing of abortion to procure fetal tissue and failing to prevent conditions..."

Nov. 23, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Texas Abortion Law Case

Justices have until June to make a final ruling

"...would take up their case against the state's harsh abortion restrictions. “Today, my heart is filled with hope," said..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

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