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Blogs
March 29, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Pastor Lou Engle is Coming to Dallas to Fight Abortion -- and He Needs Your Help, Ladies
A while back, for reasons I happily can't recall, I took the step of following the staunchly anti-gay pastor Lou Engle on Twitter. Engle is the founder of TheCall, a traveling circus of politically focused intolerance, and he makes his living (as much as $90,000 in a year, tax records show) by shari ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2012
The News Buries the Lede in the Komen Story
Just want to make sure you know what you're getting into if you count on The Dallas Morning News to tell you what's up. It's not that they won't. But you do have to deal with the social local filter. The New York Times this morning carries a story by Times staffer Natasha Singer under a headline, " ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
Homeless Man Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktails at State Sen. Wendy Davis' Fort Worth Office
On Tuesday night, state Senator Wendy Davis' staff announced that someone had set a small fire outside the door of her Fort Worth office using bottles filled with lighter fluid. The senator wasn't there at the time, and no one else was hurt during the incident, which badly scorched the door of the o ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
"It's Getting Rather Messy": The Best of the Rick Perry Facebook Bomb
Over at the Morning News' Trail Blazers Blog, Christy Hoppe pointed out late yesterday that Rick Perry's Facebook page has been "inundated by angry women" unhappy about the end of the Medicaid Women's Health Program. Perry's Facebook bomb is actually part of a larger effort to "sarcasm-flood" the ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Appeals Court Won't Rehear Attempt Trying to Overturn Texas's New Sonogram Law
In news that should make Rick Perry tingly all over, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order today denying the Center For Reproductive Rights' request for a new hearing in their suit against Texas's new sonogram law. The CRR had previously requested that the court hear the case en banc ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Hours Before Protest Planned in Front of Susan G. Komen HQ on LBJ, Karen Handel Resigns
For days now Nancy Brinker has said, over and over, that Karen Handel -- the one-time gubernatorial candidate from Georgia and Palin pal -- had nothing to do with Susan G. Komen for the Cure's decision to cut its funding to Planned Parenthood. Handel, who's Komen's senior vice-president for publi ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
A MoveOn Petition, And a Really Tiny Protest, Outside Komen's LBJ Headquarters Today
It probably hasn't escaped the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's notice that an awful lot of people are very, very unhappy with the organization lately. Just to drive the point home a little further, reps from MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet announced they'd be hand-delivering a Move ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Film Critical of Komen, Pink Ribbons, Inc., Opens in Canada Today. No U.S. Date Set Yet.
Amidst all the ruckus, resignations and double-talking over Susan G. Komen for the Cure's politically charged move to pull its breast-cancer screening funding from Planned Parenthood, you should also be aware: Dallas-based Komen's actually the subject of a documentary that opens in Canada today t ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
A Stink About Pink: Better Alternatives Than Giving to Right-Leaning Komen
Some good may come out of the Komen Foundation's hard right turn on abortion this week. It was about time, anyway, for a fundamental re-examination of Komen by people committed to the cause of cancer research. You'll find a good summary of reasons to be worried about giving to Komen, even before th ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
Center For Reproductive Rights Wants All Fifth Circuit Judges To Hear Sonogram Law Case
Rick Perry, signing the sonogram legislationThe saga of Texas's brand-new, Rick-Perry approved sonogram law continues. First, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction issued by Judge Sam Sparks and allowed the law to go into effect. (That law, just to refresh, ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
Texas's New Sonogram Law Is Going Into Effect Immediately. As In: Right Now.
Just four days after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rick Perry's favorite law -- the one requiring women to get a sonogram, listen to a fetal heartbeat and hear a verbal description from a doctor of the sonogram image before they can get an abortion -- is street legal, the court issue ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2011
A Quick Kick at Rick, While He's Still Around
I'm afraid Rick Perry will evaporate soon from the presidential coverage, and I won't get to say my little piece about him. So just in case, here it is. Months ago I was asked by the company I work for to produce a piece about Perry's so-called economic miracle in Texas. My first response was to sa ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2011
IHOP To It: A Little More About the Prayer Warriors Behind Rick Perry's "The Response"
Mike Bickle had to shut down classes at his IHOP University because the spirit took over the building.We're sure that you've been shocked (shocked!) to hear that many of the leaders and endorsers of Rick Perry's upcoming prayer-palooza, The Response, are people from organizations who really disap ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Before the Sonogram Law is Born: Abortion, the Nanny State and Right-Wing Hypocrisy
Here's what I don't get. The right-wingers are always sneering about the "nanny state" -- government trampling their sacred rights as individuals by telling them what kind of light bulb they can screw in their lamps. But the same right-wingers want government to guilt-trip women getting abort ... More >>
Music
June 24, 2010
Femme Fest
Saturday, June 26, and Sunday, June 27, at Phoenix Project Collective
Blogs
April 5, 2010
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 >>
Calendar
January 21, 2010
One Choice Soiree
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 >>
Blogs
October 27, 2008
Dallas and Fort Worth Bishops Now Insist They Weren't Endorsing Anyone
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 >>
Blogs
October 21, 2008
In Wake of Local Bishops' Joint Statement, Catholics for Change is Born
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 >>
Film
October 9, 2008
Happy-Go-Lucky gives you something to smile about
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 >>
Blogs
September 19, 2008
Anti-Choice Activists Driving Their Grisly Trucks Around Dallas Today
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 >>
Blogs
April 16, 2008
John McCain’s Curious Christian Faith
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 >>
Film
December 27, 2007
Film 2007: Missed Opportunities
Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies
Blogs
April 9, 2007
How Would Jesus Invest?
Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies
Blogs
March 19, 2007
War Protest Today Begins at Mockingbird Station. West Village Breathes Sigh of Relief.
Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies
Blogs
December 27, 2006
Flip Benham: Loves God, Hates Most Everyone Else
Kick yourself for not seeing these 10 movies
News
October 6, 2005
Die-In
Harriet Miers' conservative views drew threats of an ugly protest in 1989
News
September 29, 2005
Die-In
Harriet Miers' conservative views drew threats of an ugly protest in 1989
Film
October 21, 2004
Secrets and Lies
In Mike Leigh's new film, motherhood is a very tricky business
News
March 11, 2004
Speechless
Follow the signs
News
February 3, 2000
Fur flies
A Dallas-based anti-fur group is targeted in a free-speech battle
News
December 23, 1999
Buzz
Art lovers; Justice at work
Film
December 16, 1999
Little orphan Tobey
Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life
News
February 25, 1999
Buzz
Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life
News
December 10, 1998
Letters
Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life
News
December 3, 1998
Buzz
Cider House recounts Homer's odyssey to find his very own life
News
November 12, 1998
Wayward son
The Irving stepmother of a man linked to the shootings of abortion doctors wrestles with questions about his involvement
News
April 2, 1998
The Jones Boys
How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes
News
October 16, 1997
Buzz
How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes
Film
March 6, 1997
Abortion for grins
Citizen Ruth is pro-choice, pro-life...and pro laughs!
News
March 21, 1996
White Like Me
A Christian comes to terms with Dallas' Christian Coalition
Calendar
February 1, 1996
Events for the week
A Christian comes to terms with Dallas' Christian Coalition
News
June 8, 1995
Letters
A Christian comes to terms with Dallas' Christian Coalition
News
May 25, 1995
The road to hell
Christian Coalition stumbles on its good intentions
News
May 18, 1995
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
News
April 27, 1995
Letters
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
News
April 6, 1995
Letters
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
Calendar
February 23, 1995
Events for the week
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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