Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Lay Out Legislative Agenda

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

"...own medical decisions and to expand access to health care amid legislative attacks on abortion rights...."

March 6, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

"Rape Insurance" Bill Close to Becoming Law

HB 214 bars private, state-offered, and ACA abortion coverage

"...and couples like them from receiving insurance coverage for abortion care. “Under the bill, we would have had to..."

Aug. 13, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Notes on Kamp: What Choice?

Abortion access is just one component of reproductive justice

"...4), has the potential to dramatically restrict access to abortion in this country...."

March 4, 2016 News Column by Amy Kamp

Top 10 Reproductive Rights Stories

"...issuing a stopgap to the disastrous final provision of anti-abortion law House Bill 2 in late June, the U.S...."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Top 10 Women's Health Stories

A dark year for reproductive rights

"...1) SCOTUS STOPGAP A federal court ruling found anti-abortion House Bill 2 unconstitutional, but the 5th Circuit reversed..."

Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Feds Deny Women's Health Renewal

Language intended to exclude Planned Parenthood may jeopardize entire program

"...U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services denied Texas' application to renew the..."

Dec. 23, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Lawmakers Do Little to Support Women's Health

When it comes to controlling women's autonomy, facts never matter at the Capitol

"...so as envisioned (and funded) by the federal Affordable Care Act...."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lawmaker Files Bill Penalizing Male Masturbation

HB 4620 highlights absurdity of intrusive anti-choice bills

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

March 13, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

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

It can surely be worse

"...Texas Legislature has spent the past decade crafting draconian abortion restrictions that inevitably prompt prolonged, costly, and controversial legal..."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Support Texas Women’s Rights With Tacos and Beer

Eat tacos, drink beers, donate to an abortion fund

"...one of the most difficult states to obtain an abortion, with the large size of the state and the..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Food Post by Emily Beyda

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

New Campaign Keeps Up Pro-Choice Fight

Coalition of groups unveil multiyear repro health policy effort

"...are battling to halt the final provision of Texas anti-abortion law House Bill 2 in court. Dubbed “Trust. Respect...."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

HB 2 Returns to Court

5th Circuit questions ASC requirement

"...the fate of the final provision of Texas' draconian abortion law, House Bill 2...."

Jan. 16, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Planned Parenthood Sues

Nine clinics claim violations of First and 14th Amendment rights

"...with access to basic preventative and family planning health care – including cancer screenings, tests for sexually transmitted infections,..."

April 20, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Reproductive Rights

'Choose Life' – and Defund Women's Health Care

"...consent" law to add a requirement that women seeking abortion first undergo an ultrasound examination. The life-plate bill (Senate..."

May 8, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

5th Circuit Strikes Down Texas Anti-Choice Law

Judges say law would have forced women into "painful, invasive, and experimental" procedures

"...would have banned the safest and most common second-trimester abortion procedure...."

Oct. 23, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

New Campaign Renews Pro-Choice Fight

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

"...are battling to halt the final provision of Texas anti-abortion law House Bill 2 in court. Dubbed "Trust. Respect...."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

HB 2 Amendments: Proposed and Rejected

"...Bill 2 by Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker, would ban abortion after 20 weeks except in very limited circumstances; require..."

July 12, 2013 News Feature

Planned Parenthood's Standoff to Save Medicaid Continues

Hearing concludes Thursday, with a ruling expected before the weekend

"...Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast violated the law or altered abortion procedures for fetal tissue research purposes during the second..."

Jan. 19, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

HB 2: A SCOTUS Pause Before the Next Storm

Patients, clinics struggle with the impact of legal rulings

"...to keep up with the unprecedented volume of vulnerable, abortion-seeking patients. Within 24 hours, the center would become the..."

Oct. 24, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Will Texas Do Better?

Federal funding to the WHP is set to stop Dec. 31

"...2013 session could be any worse for women's health care than the disastrous 82nd. At the end of the..."

Dec. 7, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Just Say No!

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

"...year – a figure which includes not only health care costs but also child welfare and criminal justice costs,..."

Oct. 28, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Supreme Court Will Take Up Emergency Abortions in April

ACLU calls the January ruling “astonishing”

"...The U.S. Supreme Court alarmed abortion rights advocates last week by allowing an extreme provision..."

Jan. 10, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Anti-Abortionist and Heidi Group Founder Sues U.S. Government

Suit argues anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ groups with "sincere religious beliefs" deserve Title X money

"...A Round Rock anti-abortion activist whose group's lucrative state contracts were withdrawn last..."

Aug. 2, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: "Texas Plan" Hits Home

School finance heads to the House floor

"...a move to increase funding to the Alternatives to Abortion program – largely a network of faith-based "crisis pregnancy..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What Happens When Texas Blocks Planned Parenthood? Abortions Rise.

Study: Lege's family planning cuts led to an increase in abortion

"...With the goal of eliminating abortion, Texas Republicans have stripped Planned Parenthood of funding and..."

July 12, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Thousands Rally at the Capitol

Supporters of women's rights energized to continue fighting bad bills

"...the second special-called session where another divisive fight over abortion rights is expected to take center stage...."

July 1, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Texas Planned Parenthood Supporters Decry New Rules for Women's Health Program

But state plans to move forward without PP

"...thousands of poor women without access to basic health care or family planning services...."

Sept. 5, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Austin at Large: Look What We Made Them Do

So, why do these creeps care so much about other people’s abortions, anyway?

"...of someone who, unsustainably pregnant, tried to self-induce an abortion, and died...."

May 6, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Suffer the Children

Anti-abortion Lege targets vulnerable minors in judicial bypass bill

"...a judge, without parental involvement – to permit an abortion and enable an independent future...."

May 22, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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