Abortion

Texas Claims New Women's Health Program Will Serve More Patients Without Planned Parenthood, Despite Contrary Evidence

On New Year's Eve, a state judge ruled that Texas can keep Planned Parenthood out of its new, state-run Women's Health Program. On January 1, that program began; it'll continue to be Planned Parenthood-less until at least January 11, when the next hearing in the case will be held, and possibly forev ... More >>

Ex-Komen VP Karen Handel is Writing a Memoir Called "Planned Bullyhood"

Karen Handel is back, and she's bringing 304 pages with her. Susan G. Komen For The Cure's ex-vice president of public policy, who resigned in February after an enormous flap over Komen's attempt to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, is writing a tell-all, to be published in September by Howa ... More >>

Just When You Thought The Dust Had Settled, Susan G. Komen President, CEO Step Aside

A few months back, the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, the Dallas-based, Nancy Brinker-founded organization that has single-handedly made breast cancer a cause celeb, thrust itself squarely in the middle of the abortion debate when it announced plans to cut funding from Planned Parenthood. Brinker walk ... More >>

The Defunding of Women's Health Care in Texas May Force Rural Clinics to Close

We keep hammering away at this same general point, but really: It's been a terrible year for family planning providers in Texas. First the Legislature moved $73.6 million out of the state family-planning budget for the next two years . At the same time, they changed to a tiered funding structure tha ... More >>

How One Man's Witch Hunt Made Komen Decide to Cut Off Grants to Planned Parenthood

Perhaps you've heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don't bother clicking the link; the site's not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood, a move Planned Parenthood of North Texas says comes after "anti-women's health groups have repeate ... More >>

Judge OKs Texas's Sonogram Law, Making Governor Rick Perry Very, Very Happy

Texas's dandy new "sonogram law" -- which requires abortion-seeking women to look at a sonogram, hear a description of it from her doctor and listen to a fetal heartbeat -- is legal, a federal court ruled today. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a temporary injunction, issued by Judge ... More >>

A Successful Health Program May End Thanks to Texas's Quest to Kill Planned Parenthood

ViaYou, sir, must not be a Texas legislator.​It's been a good 14 minutes since the state twisted its rusty knife into the already-wounded gut of women's healthcare. But fear not: There's a huge, ugly storm brewing between the state and federal governments over the Medicaid Women's Health Progr ... More >>

My, How This Crisis is Growing

The End of Family Planning in Texas

They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.

Texas Is the "Big Fish," and the Anti-Abortion Movement Has Lots of Bait in the Water

Photo by Holly MorganNancy Northup, President, Center For Reproductive Rights​The First Unitarian Church of Dallas hosted a special guest last week: Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The CRR, if you recall, is the New York-based organization that recently won a prelim ... More >>

Dallas Attorney Leading the Charge to Get Courts to Toss Out State's New Sonogram Law

​As we've noted before, Senate Bill 7, the omnibus health care bill penned by Flower Mound's Jane Nelson that just passed the Texas House and Senate, is awfully concerned with abortion -- namely, making it as hard as possible for anyone to get one. Now, the bill is heading for Governor Rick Perry' ... More >>

Some Details on That Questionnaire Lawmakers Want Women To Fill Out Before Abortions

Rep. Bill Zedler wants to aggregate your data.Last week we told you about a questionnaire that Arlington state Rep. Bill Zedler wants Texas women to have to fill out before they can get an abortion, the answers to which would eventually show up in some state-run internet database. We asked for a cop ... More >>

Center for Reproductive Rights Has New Site For Lone Star Ladies and Other In Utero News

​Starting September 1, if you're a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor's office. You're going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you "in detail," and possibly be asked to listen to a fetal heart monitor (although you ... More >>

Arlington Rep. Bill Zedler Wants To Hear All About Your Abortion

Rep. Bill Zedler just has a few questions about your legal medical procedure.​In the latest piece of depressing women's health news from the Texas Legislature, The Dallas Morning News reported today that the House has voted to deny state funding to public hospitals that either perform "elective a ... More >>

Deuell Language: Planned Parenthood Says Politics Messing With Women's Health Care

Bob Deuell​The state Senate Committee on Health and Human Services voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would renew the Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-funded program that provides basic women's health care. It was set to expire this year unless the Lege took action, but now that it has the ... More >>

Stephen Broden Continues Attack on Abortion With Controversial New Billboard in Chicago

​One month ago, former Congressional candidate Stephen Broden was making news in New York City when Dallas-based Life Always, of which Broden's a member, debuted that anti-abortion billboard in SoHo that read, "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." Only a few days later ... More >>

Walk for Choice Rallies Support for Women's Reproductive Rights, Squares Off Against Religious Counter-Protest

Photos by Patrick MichelsPro-choice demonstrators shout it out with religious abortion opponents downtown Saturday at the Walk for Choice. A slide show is here.​Some 200 pro-choice demonstrators -- some college-age, others old enough to recall protesting for abortion rights before Roe v. Wade -- t ... More >>

Walk for Choice Brings Women's Health Care and Abortion Rights Fight to Downtown

​Tomorrow at noon, pro-choicers from around Dallas will be meeting up at JFK Memorial Plaza and moseying through downtown for a "Walk for Choice" protest, against a run on bills around the country aimed at slashing funding for women's health providers and limiting access to abortions.The Dallas ev ... More >>

Stephen Broden Now Raising Hell in NYC With Quite the Black History Month Billboard

​Why, only yesterday Stephen Broden was at Dallas County Commissioners Court, speaking up for former Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet whilst quoting Scripture to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. But today, the New York media turns its attention on the man who tried last year to take Eddie Be ... More >>

Choose Your Choice, Choose Your Sno-Cone Tomorrow Night At La Grange Tweet-Up

facebook.com/lagrangedallasSee you and your free-wheeling ladyparts here, tomorrow night.​Do you like delicious cocktails? Do you like reproductive freedom? Do you want to drink delicious cocktails while celebrating reproductive freedom? If the answer to these questions is yes, you'll want to be a ... More >>

Palin, Perry, Leppert, Abbott & Broden Talk Abortion at the Majestic. Need We Say More?

Photos by Sam MertenSarah Palin last night at the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas​Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a crowd of pro-life advocates gathered at the Majestic Theatre last night that the largest advance in the abortion industry has been the passage ... More >>

Stephen Broden Gives Good Sound Bite. But There's More to the Man Than Meets the Ear.

​In an interview today with Bill Zeeble of KERA-FM (90.1), Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden trots out his belief that Roe v. Wade -- the Supreme Court decision affirming a woman's right to abortion - was "passed" as part of a racist elitist plot of genocide against black people. B ... More >>

The News Has Endorsed Stephen Broden. But What Does the Paper Really Know About Him?

Texas GOP VoteRNC Chair Michael Steele and Stephen Broden​This afternoon, The Dallas Morning News endorsed Stephen Broden, the Republican vying for Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's seat in the U.S. Congress. Fascinating -- in no small part because Johnson has been the No. 1 purveyor of federal por ... More >>

Plano Man Arrested for Threatening "Deadly Force" at Dallas Abortion Clinic

​The U.S. Attorney's Office just sent word: On Saturday afternoon, a 27-year-old Plano man named Erlyndon J. Lo, was arrested by FBI agents at his home on charges that he threatened to use deadly force to stop an abortion at the Southwestern Women's Surgery Center on Greenville Avenue and Lovers L ... More >>

One Choice Soiree

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.

Irrational Discourse

Obama and the Hand of God

Aborton doc Lake of Fire Gives No Answers

Seventeen years in the making, Tony Kaye's epic documentary gives a lot—but no answer

In the Inner City, An Alternative to Abortion

Religious Right Still Righting Texas Liberals' Many Wrongs

Craziest Sentence Ever Typed

Operation Restrained. Or Not.

Life, Death and Money

Will Texas pony up bucks to lead in stem cell research? Pro-lifers hope not.

Right Hand of God

Two Texas leaders of the extreme Religious Right get ready to flex their political muscle

Dear Santa

A certain state representative needs some coal in his stocking

Best Case of Compassionless Conservatism

State Senator Robert Deuell, R-Mesquite

Consider the Source

Planned Parenthood refuses to give up the dole without a fight

Passing the Plate

Proposed new license tags weigh in on the abortion debate

Sins of a Preacher Man

Until his overthrow, Bill Price led the Texas anti-abortion movement for 17 years. Was it politics, ego, or something worse that did him in?

Little orphan Tobey

Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life

Caught in a Web site

A Denton doctor finds herself on an anti-abortion hit parade

Girding for battle

Wayward son

The Irving stepmother of a man linked to the shootings of abortion doctors wrestles with questions about his involvement

Abortion for grins

Citizen Ruth is pro-choice, pro-life...and pro laughs!

White Like Me

A Christian comes to terms with Dallas' Christian Coalition

Events for the week

Letters

Charlotte's Web

At the Routh Street Women's Clinic, Charlotte Taft created a controversial feminist enclave and waged war with anti-abortion zealots. Then she questioned her movement's gospeland it all fell apart

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