A New Pro-Choice Leader at NARAL Pro-Choice Texas

Aimee Arrambide takes over advocacy group

"...In a state as anti-choice as Texas, leading reproductive rights advocates to victory is no easy..."

Aug. 31, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

New Campaign Keeps Up Pro-Choice Fight

Coalition of groups unveil multiyear repro health policy effort

"...Thursday morning, Democratic lawmakers vowed to keep fighting for pro-choice laws this legislative session...."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Pro-Choice Activists Deliver Petitions Against Fetal Burial Rule

Public comment period on rule ends Monday, Oct. 31

"...petition signatures against a proposed rule that would force Texas women to bury or cremate their fetal tissue after..."

Oct. 27, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

New Campaign Renews Pro-Choice Fight

New reproductive health policy campaign seeks to reverse damage of anti-choice laws

"...lawmakers and advocacy groups vowed to keep fighting for pro-choice laws this legislative session with a strategic and targeted..."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Best Post-HB 2 Pro-Choice Activist Group

Fight Back Texas

"...For Fight Back Texas, the 2013 filibuster was just the beginning. Reigniting the..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Best of Austin Feature

An Undue Burden: Supremes Vindicate Pro-Choice Texans

Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

"..."Did we win today or what?" asked NARAL Pro-Choice Texas' Heather Busby to a cheering sea of..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

NARAL Stages 'People's Filibuster'

Action against new abortion regulations

"...For supporters of reproductive rights in Texas, today is going to be a very long day...."

June 20, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

Texas Publishes State-Mandated Anti-Choice "Propaganda" Booklet

Updated pamphlet still rife with medical errors, health advocates say

"...Despite thousands of objections from the medical community and pro-choice advocates, the Texas Department of State Health Services this..."

Dec. 7, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

State’s Teen Pregnancy Booklet Riddled With Anti-Choice Propaganda

Pregnant minors in foster care given medically inaccurate literature

"...If pregnant teenagers in Texas are hoping to get the facts about their abortion..."

April 19, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

Report: Texas Women's Health Program Hit Hard

Thousands fewer women served by Texas Women's Health Program

"...new report confirms what reproductive health advocates predicted when Texas officials decided to kick Planned Parenthood out of a..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

State Axes Anti-Choice Group's Family Planning Funds

The Heidi Group failed to meet their own patient target goals

"...Last year, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission doled out a $1.6..."

Aug. 23, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Lege Finds Even More Funds for Anti-Choice Grifters

Alternatives to Abortion program gets $100M in House budget

"...struggling low-income Texans and helped victims of human trafficking, Texas House members approved a record-breaking $100 million for the..."

April 23, 2021 News Post by Mary Tuma

Texas Senate Passes Forced Abortion Counseling Bill

SB 2234: A "dangerous expansion of state power"

"...It’s paternalistic, it’s anti-choice, it’s a bill by the Texas Senate...."

May 3, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Texas Pregnancy Care Network Proves Unimpressive

Report shows Alternatives to Abortion program to be expensive, inefficient

"...After two fiscal years of funding, Texas' Alternatives to Abortion program remains "grossly inefficient and expensive,"..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Advocates, Lawmakers Call For Investigation Into $1.6 Million Health Contract With Anti-Choice Group

"...led by anti-abortion activist Carol Everett. Last week, Progress Texas called for a similar investigation into the state contract..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...pieces of state legislation. Budget riders tacked onto the Texas Department of State Health Services' appropriation in March 2005..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

85th Texas Legislature Preview

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

"...moment captured the underlying conflict leading into the 85th Texas Legislature, it came on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan...."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

The Next Anti-Choice Strategy?

Widening the A.G.'s authority to prosecute

"...anti-choice movement's strategy during the next legislative session, the Texas Attorney Gen­eral's Office, under zealot Ken Paxton, is lobbying..."

April 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

NARAL Supports Bolton, Maldonado

NARAL Pro-Choice Texas PAC throws its support to the candidates it believes will fight for women's rights

"...On Oct. 3 the NARAL Pro-Choice Texas political action committee announced its endorsements of..."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

After a Month of Chaos, Abortion Care Returns to Texas

Clinics, patients, and the law get put through the ringer over care

"...White Boulevard in South Austin were thrown into havoc. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton – guided by an executive..."

May 1, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Anti-Choice Grifter’s Mischief Costs Texas Taxpayers $1.6M

State asks for its money back after Round Rock-based anti-abortion group fritters away women's health funds

"...Texas' woefully terrible decision to grant its precious women's health..."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Texas Lawmaker Wants to Make Abortion Completely Illegal

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

"...removing the immunity protection for abortion procedures in the Texas Penal Code’s rules for criminal homicide. While the law..."

Jan. 12, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

A Peek Into the New Lege's Anti-Choice Plan

It can surely be worse

"...The Texas Legislature has spent the past decade crafting draconian abortion..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Bills Grant Texas Doctors Legal Cover to Mislead Pregnant Women

Is the Lege giving doctors a license to lie?

"...However, if two bills pending in the Texas Legislature make it through both chambers, patients who don't..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Texas Responds to Hobby Lobby Contraception Case

Dems, health groups and religious freedom advocates slam ruling

"...their religious beliefs. Now advocates for reproductive rights in Texas are condemning the decision...."

June 30, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Anti-Choice Group to Receive $1.6 Million Health Grant

More taxpayer dollars for Carol Everett's the Heidi Group

"...into the sewer system?” she asked, eliciting laughter from pro-choice advocates in the room (see "Fetal Burial Saga Continues,"..."

Aug. 15, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Senate Speeds Through Anti-Choice Bills

Women's health sees rare victory here in Austin

"...an anti-choice bill frenzy over the past week, the Texas Senate passed a trio of abortion-restrictive pieces of legislation..."

March 24, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Lay Out Legislative Agenda

“Trust. Respect. Access.” campaign combines progressive forces

"...multiyear campaign –supported by a coalition of groups including NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, Whole Woman’s Health, Planned Parenthood Texas Votes,..."

March 6, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Health Advocates Deliver Thousands of Comments to Oppose Texas' Pre-Abortion Booklet Revisions

Austin Rep. Donna Howard calls state-sponsored booklet "propaganda"

"...With little financial resources to raise a child at..."

July 27, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Texas Faith and Freedom

Samantha Smoot recounts her work with the Texas Freedom Network

"...Samantha Smoot, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network since 1998, recently announced her resignation, effective..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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