FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2017 The Texas House just voted to approve on second reading SB8, which creates even more regulations designed to unnecessarily burden abortion providers and make women’s access to abortion even harder in Texas. The House must still pass the bill on third reading. Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller has […]
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Major Statewide Advertising, Public Education Campaign Targets Lies Behind Anti-Abortion Laws in Texas
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund’s Campaign Follows Report Showing Texas Tops the Nation in Anti-Abortion Laws That Conflict with Established Science FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2017 The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund today launched a major statewide advertising and public education campaign targeting the state’s ranking as worst in the nation for anti-abortion laws […]
Report: Texas Worst in the Nation in Scientifically Unfounded Anti-Abortion Restrictions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2017 This morning the Guttmacher Institute released a report showing that Texas and Kansas top all 50 states in the number of anti-abortion restrictions that are premised on assertions not supported by rigorous scientific evidence. Guttmacher’s press release is online here. The article is online here. Following is a statement […]
House Budget Vote: Big Defeat for School Vouchers, But the Right’s War on Women’s Health Care Continues
A marathon session in the Texas House on that chamber’s version of the state budget ended in the wee hours of this morning with a big victory in our fight against school voucher schemes but distressing actions in the continuing war on women’s reproductive health care. […]
Does Government Own Women’s Bodies?
With the 85th Texas Legislature set to convene in Austin on Jan. 10, we’re already seeing proposed bills that would make it even harder for women to access abortion and other reproductive health care services in the state. Politicians in Texas and elsewhere simply refuse to trust women to make decisions about whether and when to have children. […]