Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

Tracking the fallout from the special session

"...• The Senate has passed two school finance bills, at least one of which looks set to receive..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lege Bills Target Local Planned Parenthood Office

Latest attack rooted in faulty logic

"...the community. But currently, in the name of eradicating abortion care, anti-choice lawmakers are threatening its future with a..."

Aug. 4, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

The final frenzy before last day of session

"...• Good news on bad bills: SB 103, the plastic bag ban measure from Sen...."

May 26, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Lege Takes Direct Aim at Austin Abortion Aid

"...A pair of bills by state Sen. Donna Campbell, R-New Braun­fels (Senate Bill..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: Dem Lawmakers Boycott Anti-Abortion Bill Hearing

Brass ovaries vs. HB 16, and other battle lines drawn at the Capitol

"...March 25, against a bill that would further stigmatize abortion, boycotting a committee hearing and delaying the bill's vote...."

March 29, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

"...House State Affairs Committee on Monday ushered four anti-choice bills to the full lower chamber. HB 35 by Rep. Byron..."

April 21, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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

Safer Legal Abortion? Not in This State!

The Texas Legislature's special session aims to trample even further on Texans' constitutional right to legal health care

"...87th Texas Legislature passed the most extreme restrictions on abortion care in the country during its regular session, but..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

“Cruel” Anti-Abortion SB 8 Sent to Gov’s Desk to Become Law

Expect a court challenge over "unconstitutional" bill

"...session. The bill, by Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, requires abortion providers to bury or cremate women’s fetal and embryonic..."

May 26, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Six-Week Abortion Ban Leads List of Bad New Texas Laws

Parade of horribles comes courtesy of the 87th Texas Legislature

"...went to press – is when most newly enacted bills take effect as laws. As the never-ending 87th Texas..."

Sept. 3, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Suit Filed Against Latest Abortion Ban

This year's target: Senate Bill 8

"...to chip away at reproductive rights this special session, abortion providers have made good on their promise to fight..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature 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"

"...child at a young age, Skinner decided to undergo abortion. Before the procedure, her health provider was forced to..."

July 27, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Mad Men: Senate Votes to Impose New Abortion Limits

Senate GOP votes to impose new abortion limits

"...opponents say are designed solely to restrict access to abortion and to drive backward in time women's reproductive rights...."

June 21, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas’ New Data on Pregnancy Deaths Is Old. As in, Pre-Abortion-Ban Old

New legislation seeks to streamline data gathering process

"...big problem with the report. The data is old. Pre-abortion-ban old. It looks at deaths in 2020, before Texas’..."

Jan. 24, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Media Bills Chill

Reporters Get the Cold Shoulder From Legislators

"...news that came out of the 77th Lege. Under bills that were passed into law this session, a wide..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Rep. Jeff Leach Plays Both Sides With Abortion Ban Bill

"...last week's public hearing on HB 896, a no-exceptions abortion ban whose supporters openly relished the prospect of women..."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: Bills on the Move

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

"...hospitals, community health centers, and birthing clinics to report abortion-related complications to the state health department, considered an unnecessary..."

May 19, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Lege Preview: These Bills Deserve to Die

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

"...Texas reps have filed a combined 1,635 bills so far this session, and many oughta die. These..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by the News Staff

Bills on the Move

"...providers to bury or cremate fetal remains after an abortion, a measure identical to one blocked by a federal..."

April 7, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Fighting a Rising Tide

The 78th Lege chipped away at abortion rights

"...Earlier this year, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League gave Texas a grade..."

July 25, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Lege Ticker: Someone Has to Pay the Post-Storm Electric Bill

The price is right?

"...power generators during the storm. Those $9,000 per megawatt-hour bills for electricity, the maximum price allowed by the PUC..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Debunking Five Anti-Choice Lies This Session

No wonder why repro rights groups are using the mantra “Lies Into Laws”

"...an opportunity to restrict your constitutionally protected right to abortion care. Lawmakers are doubling down on outright lies and..."

April 24, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Lay Out Legislative Agenda

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

"...expand access to health care amid legislative attacks on abortion rights...."

March 6, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

Shaming Girls in Crisis

Lawmakers seek to restrict 'bypass' abortions

"...Two bills pending at the Lege that seek to "reform" aspects..."

May 2, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

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 Spirit of 76th

The Presidential Card

"...not to awaken or offend him. A number of bills -- most notably the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes..."

June 18, 1999 News Column by Erica C. Barnett

Lawmaker Files Bill Penalizing Male Masturbation

HB 4620 highlights absurdity of intrusive anti-choice bills

"...Fed up with the slew of bills regulating women’s health care, Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, has..."

March 13, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

On the Lege

Tired arguments and middle-aged men set anti-woman agenda

"...by Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, which would ban all abortion in Texas (unless the mother would otherwise die), if..."

April 20, 2007 News Column by Jordan Smith

UPDATE: Senate Filibuster in Progress

Close to vote on SB5; clock ticking

"...SB5 legislation. Issue was the "mandatory sonogram" prior to abortions of last session. Watson notes that these bills are..."

June 25, 2013 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: Making Women Suffer

The self-appointed defenders of life and family values are neither

"...to spend other money in its budget to provide abortions. That is not possible; there is no other money...."

April 22, 2011 News Column by Michael King

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