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Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Texas Can't Kick Planned Parenthood Out of the WHP After All, Appeals Court Says

    Earlier this week, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction that kept Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of the Women's Health Program. It looked as though that was the first step toward a decision allowing Texas to keep Planned Parenthood out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Planned Parenthood Wins Battle in War on Women as Judge Puts Off Exclusion from WHP

    The scuffle between Texas and the feds over women's healthcare was supposed to get real tomorrow, when Planned Parenthood was scheduled to be barred from being a provider for the state's Medicaid Women's Health Program. But earlier today, Federal District Judge Lee Yeakel granted the non-profit its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    The Strange Tale of Tucker Max and His Failed $500,000 Planned Parenthood Donation

    For the past few days, several corners of the Internet have been all a-flutter over a recent piece on Forbes.com by a man named Ryan Holiday, who describes himself as a "strategist for big authors and big brands." Holiday apparently had tried to arrange a donation of $500,000 from one of his clien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Planned Parenthood Director Turned Pro-Life Superstar Is Suing PP For Alleged Medicaid Fraud

    As long as we're on the general theme of "unpleasant events that are somehow related to the Medicaid Women's Health Program," let's throw this one in there too: Abby Johnson, who was until a couple of years ago the director of a clinic that was part of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast, is now su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Texas Alliance For Life Executive Director Not Sure Why No One Is "Cheering For Rick Perry"

    Pro-life groups in Texas are in an awkward position these days, as the Medicaid Women's Health Program fights for its life. On one hand, they celebrate anything that they perceive as a blow to Planned Parenthood (which Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas Executive Director Karen Garnett once ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 1, 2012

    Things Are Pretty Gritty In The City

    Pro-life groups in Texas are in an awkward position these days, as the Medicaid Women's Health Program fights for its life. On one hand, they celebrate anything that they perceive as a blow to Planned Parenthood (which Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas Executive Director Karen Garnett once ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Medicaid Women's Health Program Is One Step Closer To Death

    The Medicaid Women's Health Program provides some 130,000 Texas women with vital medical care: family planning, birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams. And for that, of course, it must die. That, at least, has long been the case as far as Republican lawmakers are concerned. And after last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Maybe It's Time for Komen to Change Those Pink Ribbons to GOP Red

    We still have to read between the lines to glimpse the bottom line on the Komen Foundation's attack on Planned Parenthood, but the slowly emerging truth of the matter doesn't bode well. Karen Handel, the Komen executive who resigned yesterday, has a weird talent for letting the cat out of the bag e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    World AIDS Day to Wrap Up With Speeches Downtown and a Service at Cathedral of Hope

    ​The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for "the beginning of the end," a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2011

    Great Use for a Festivus Pole

    ​The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for "the beginning of the end," a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    My, How This Crisis is Growing

    ​The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for "the beginning of the end," a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight ... More >>

  • News

    October 6, 2011

    Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle

    Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Producer of Dallas Buyer's Club Talks About Why It's Been So Hard to Get Movie Made

    Via.Hilary Swank​I got a call yesterday from the mighty Robbie Brenner, one of the producers of the fingers-crossed film The Dallas Buyer's Club, which, as you're surely aware by now, is the long-in-the-works adaptation of the true-life tale of Dallas electrician Ron Woodroof and his journey from ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    Fighting, Dramatically

    Via.Hilary Swank​I got a call yesterday from the mighty Robbie Brenner, one of the producers of the fingers-crossed film The Dallas Buyer's Club, which, as you're surely aware by now, is the long-in-the-works adaptation of the true-life tale of Dallas electrician Ron Woodroof and his journey from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    The Daily Fail: Bono

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    No Tie, No Problem

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Calendar

    December 17, 2009

    Souped-Up Sleighs

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2009

    Get A New lease On Life

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Design for Big Dimes

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    Don't Blow It|Cookie Monsters|Our Bad|Risky Business

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2008

    Tony Romo and His Pops Are Out to Tackle Prostate Cancer

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2008

    Ryan Gosling to Star in the True Tale of The Dallas Buyer's Club

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    Part of the Heard

    Bono is sad. And no, it's not because he hasn't found a new cause to get behind. He's sad because people aren't giving money to one of his favorite causes.

  • News

    June 7, 2007

    Ringing Up Baby

    Cashing in on the adoption biz is easy in Texas, where lax rules let almost anyone play. Take Jennalee Ryan, for instance...

  • Calendar

    April 26, 2007

    Cha(Red)able

    Be entertained for a good cause

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2007

    In the Inner City, An Alternative to Abortion

    Be entertained for a good cause

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2007

    No Dallas, But, Maybe, Dallas Buyer's Club

    Be entertained for a good cause

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2006

    Magic Man

    Be entertained for a good cause

  • Culture

    August 10, 2006

    Closet Case

    With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    Aim right

    The effective liberal

  • Calendar

    July 28, 2005

    Be Dazzled

    The effective liberal

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2005

    This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

    The effective liberal

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Gay Caballeros

    Inside the secret world of Dallas' mayates

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2004

    Jean Genie

    Join the "Evolution"

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2004

    Give Us a "V"

    Pussycat to pooki, Quad C and UNT have 'em all

  • Calendar

    February 14, 2002

    Viva V-Day

    SMU and UNT present The Vagina Monologues

  • Calendar

    February 8, 2001

    Naughty Bits

    It's just a word, right?

  • Culture

    August 19, 1999

    Sexual healer

    The MAC presents Annie Sprinkle in concert -- and all the porn and popcorn you can stomach

  • News

    July 2, 1998

    Death on tap

    Cryptosporidium kills AIDS victims in Dallas. Who will the pathogen claim next?

  • Culture

    August 28, 1997

    Family affair

    Kitchen Dog dances an intimate but confused Baltimore Waltz

  • News

    July 25, 1996

    Black Tie winners

    The biggest gay fund raiser in Dallas is more popularity contest than charity

  • News

    February 29, 1996

    Just don't call them nelly guys

    In a town that knows cheerleading, folks are flipping for a relentlessly upbeat gay squad

  • Film

    August 17, 1995

    Boy meets boy...

    Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses the long journey to Jeffrey

  • News

    July 13, 1995

    A touch of class

    Safe-sex activist promotes "designer" condom vending machines

  • 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

  • Calendar

    April 6, 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

  • News

    February 16, 1995

    Bad lawyer joke

    'Tort reform' is a misleading euphemism--an excusefor insurance companies to gouge more

  • Film

    February 9, 1995

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

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