Women's Health

Texas Freedom Network Poll: Most Texans Support Birth Control and Family Planning

Texas Freedom Network has a lot to be irritated about lately. TFN is a left-leaning advocacy group focusing on things like civil liberties, church-state separation and not wasting classroom hours teaching Texas schoolchildren that the Rapture is a rock-solid scientific inevitability. As you might ... More >>

Judge Denies Planned Parenthood's Request to Let Them Back in Texas Women's Health Program

Let's do this quickly, so you can incorporate it into all the sorrows you're about drown after you leave work today. A state judge has denied Planned Parenthood's request for a temporary injunction that would have allowed them to rejoin the Texas Women's Health Program. According to Mary Tuma, a r ... More >>

New England Journal of Medicine Says Texas' Family Planning Cuts Are A Public Health Disaster

It's been nearly a year since Texas legislators slashed the state's family planning funding, diverting $73 million to a variety of other programs. That was about two-thirds of the total family planning budget, and the conservative lawmakers who orchestrated the cuts were vocal about why they'd done ... More >>

At the Opening of a Houston Pregnancy Center, Rick Perry Pledges To Help "Make Abortion A Thing of the Past"

Governor Rick Perry, it may shock you to learn, is not such a big fan of abortion. Perry vowed some time ago to create a new, Texas-run version of the Women's Health Program, one that would ban doctors from discussing or "promoting" abortion with their patients. It would also explicitly bar Planned ... More >>

Appeals Court Says Planned Parenthood Can Be Banned From the Women's Health Program, Rick Perry Rejoices

Texas' game of women's health pingpong continues. A panel of judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction yesterday that had allowed Planned Parenthood to remain in the Medicaid Women's Health Program. In other words, PP is out. Again. The nonprofit was boote ... More >>

Texas Plans to Use Medicaid Expansion it Rejected to Pay For Women's Health Program

In early June, Governor Rick Perry was quick to announce that no state of his would be taking any of that tyrannical federal money to expand Medicaid coverage. Yet court documents filed by outgoing Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs claim that the state's new, Planned Parenthood-free W ... 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 >>

Is the Bush Institute's Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Program Too Little Too Late?

At right you see former First Lady Laura Bush, cheerily painting a door at a health clinic in Zambia. The photo was taken earlier this month by a staffer at the Bush Institute, part of the press surrounding the former first couple's visit to Africa earlier this month. It's also included in today's D ... More >>

Get Pumped

Your Guide To Susan G. Komen's Newest PR Headache, Which Involves The Daughter of an Uzbek Dictator

Islam Karimov is the president of Uzbekistan; he's also widely known as a brutal dictator accused of the systematic use of torture. His regime is charged with things like boiling political dissidents to death and forcibly sterilizing women. Now one of his daughters, who's well-disliked in her own ri ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Stampeded for a Cure

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 >>

One Man's (Somewhat Frantic and Almost Failed) Hunt for Emergency Contraceptive

One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or "the morning-after pill." It wasn't the morning after. He and his wife had their "accident" a few days before, and the 72-hour window in which EC is m ... More >>

The Big Change

Cooking for a Cure

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 >>

Good Eating: Charitable Events at Restaurants This Week

Restaurant bent on doing good could just donate food to local non-profits. But what's the fun in that? Various Dallas eateries have dreamed up more creative ways to help their community: Read on for details of this week's charitable happenings. ​

Whaddya Know, A Breast Cancer Campaign That's About Lives, Not Boobs

​It's hard to say if anyone anywhere really gets to have his or her cake and eat it too, but it's especially frustrating to me when women are asked to support good causes that also ask them to get behind demeaning stereotypes and objectification. (Looking at you, PETA.) This often happens in conju ... More >>

Lady Blues

From the Ground Up

Sex And The City 2 Struggles Against Nature to Stay Forever Young.

3-Days' Grace

Put Your Breast Foot Forward

Hot Stage Flash

Heart to Heart

Immigrants Detained in Texas Aren't Getting the Medical Care They Need, Human Rights Watch Says

Human Rights WatchHuman Rights Watch on Tuesday released a report blasting the government for delaying, withholding and botching medical care for immigrants detained in Florida, Arizona and Texas. In the Lone Star State, the researchers conducted interviews with women held at the Port Isabel detenti ... More >>

Bizarro World

Lesbian bull-riders, menopausal mamas and a not-so-sexy Stanley Kowalski—ah, the stuff of theater

Hot Flash, Stage Left

Driving For Boobies

Komen-deer BMWs for cancer research

Three-Day Drink-On

Stage Flashes

See Menopause The Musical

Drunk on Charity

Take a swig out of breast cancer

People, People Who Read People

Poor People Make Excellent Guinea Pigs

Pepto-Bismol

Firehouse hosts an evening of pink

Filling the Charity Cups

Code RED Rovers

Seasonal Changes

Extreme Estrogen

Surf's up for Girls Learn to Ride

Driven

Speed for a Cure

Everyone's Welcome

But this race is for the ladies

Consider the Source

Planned Parenthood refuses to give up the dole without a fight

Pink Ribbons

Plano runs breast cancer out of town

Just Kidding

Plus: Checkup; Ch-ch-changes

Different Seasons

Peggy Shaw hit middle age and became a Menopausal Gentleman

Good eggs

For some infertile Dallas couples, science, commerce, and a few genetically attractive women provide the next best thing to Mother Nature

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