All but Illegal

As the final provisions of HB 2 loom, Texas abortion clinics brace for closure

"...and preventative health services – annual exams, pap smears, birth control, emergency contraception, and counseling, in addition to abortion..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

'Downton Abbey' Slips Into Something More Comfortable

Let's talk about sex, darling

"...of Marie Stopes’ Married Love, which is an early birth-control text, in addition to a handbook for sexual pleasure..."

Jan. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

State Health Care Numbers Plunge Again

Clients served drops 77%

"...Pap smears, breast cancer and other preventive screenings, and birth control – leaving roughly $38 million for the two-year..."

Nov. 29, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Family Planning (Still) Costs More, Serves Fewer Women

State serves 77% fewer women in 2013

"...breast cancer and other preventive screenings as well as birth control – leaving in the pot just roughly $38..."

Nov. 19, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Fewer Women Served Under Texas Women's Health Program

Program designed to exclude PP, helps far fewer women

"...designed to help reduce the costs associated with Medicaid births in Texas; more than half of all births in..."

July 31, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

'The Fight for the Future ... Is Just Beginning'

After weeks of drama, sweeping abortion restrictions pass the Lege

"...of rape and incest to a proposal to provide birth control without parental consent to teen mothers...."

July 19, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

If You Liked Rick Perry, You'll Love Greg Abbott

Attorney general confirms governorship shot

"...that his suit against health care providers paying for birth control and his push to enforce the highly invasive..."

July 15, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: November 21

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...A coven convent of Ohioan nuns are worried that birth control is turning men gay, which is why I..."

Nov. 21, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

Central Health Prop. 1: Opponents' Arguments

"...Family is a Catholic institution that does not provide birth control or abortion services...."

Nov. 2, 2012 News Feature

Every Woman Deserves Access to Affordable Reproductive Health Care

"...takes insurance coverage away from contraceptives such as the birth control pill, this will also create a large increase..."

Oct. 31, 2012 Postmarks

Consider 'The Source'

Houston crisis pregnancy center, with Perry's help, hopes to become new provider in Texas Women's Health Program

"...transmitted disease testing and treatment. Exactly what types of birth control will be provided, she said, has not yet..."

Sept. 28, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Planned Parenthood in the WHP: On Again, Off Again

Judge thinks it's unlikely Texas will be able to justify the rule banning PP from the Women's Health Program

"...reduce elective abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies by subsidizing birth-control strategies that do not involve elective abortions." Though the..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sick and Tired of Being Used as a Football

"...want to provide zero sex education in schools, limit birth control, eliminate Planned Parenthood, eradicate abortions, enforce an invasive..."

March 19, 2012 Postmarks

Luv Doc Recommends: Queensrÿche

Emo's, Sunday, September 25, 2011

"...with girls who sadly lacked the benefit of reliable birth control. The most dangerous person they know … a..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc

Brutal Budget Amendments Target Family Planning Funds

Deep cuts proposed for health programs, more money for GOP pet projects

"...these programs – which include providing cancer screenings and birth control to low-income women – into other, also certainly..."

April 1, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Anti-Abortionists Want More Health-Care Money

New threats to women's health care emerge in both Texas and D.C.

"...budget rider in 2005, is designed exclusively to "promote childbirth" and to steer women away from abortion. It does..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pro-Lifer Appointed to Oversee Nation's Family-Planning Program

Bush announces that he has chosen pro-life doctor Eric Keroack as his new appointee to oversee family planning at Department of Health and Human Services

"...espouses the notion that widespread use and distribution of birth control is actually "demeaning to women."..."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Plan B Interference?

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

"...an elevated dose of the hormones contained in regular birth control pills; nonetheless, former FDA administrator Mark McClellan denied..."

May 26, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...competitor Wal-Mart, however, in getting thumbs down over its birth-control and contraceptive policy. Following an incident in Missouri, where..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature

Who Is Mr. Roberts?

Hearings begin for Supreme Court nomination

"...access to emergency contraceptives or to any form of birth control – all of which are based on the..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Unbelievers Can't See the Light

"...only absolute way to avoid pregnancy and stop STDs. Birth control is zealously promoted. (Whoever makes birth control devices..."

Feb. 19, 2004 Postmarks

Making Everyone Happy

The state's textbook adoption process focuses more on pleasing everyone than on teaching children.

"...-- who suggested that all mention of homosexuality and birth control be removed. Faragher refused. "To not deal with..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...Cecelia, a tall, regal woman with fine-chiseled features, gave birth to a boy, Brian, and two girls, Kelly and..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Writes of Spring

Off the Bookshelf

"...important the Catholic Church's stance on premarital sex and birth control are as important deterrents to teen pregnancy, but..."

April 3, 1998 Books Review

The Good Eye: Killer Outfits – Anna's Blue Dress

Isabelle Adjani is a devil in a you-know-what

"...Texas, where sex education has been gutted, access to birth control curtailed, and abortion effectively outlawed...."

Oct. 17, 2014 Column by Amy Gentry

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...know what it takes to raise a child from birth to adulthood. As you pointed out in your commentary,..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Column

About AIDS

Media images of sex might not have the influence on teens that was previously assumed.

"...culture is more highly sexualized than ever, the teen birth rate is lower than in 60 years, fewer high..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Trauma From the Past, Trauma From the Skies in Descendent

Peter Cilella on the myth of control in his SXSW sci fi domestic drama

"...about how the world works. Pivotal changes like the birth of your first child or the first time you..."

March 10, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...said YouthWorks coordinator Parc Smith. The Bastrop Co. Water Control and Improvement District No. 2 deeded the land at..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

"...for its new campus location to have better design control over the project it plans to build at Southwest..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature

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