The Texas Freedom Network will be busy, busy, busy at the Legislature this week. Sex education, religious freedom, LGBT rights, and family planning funding are on legislative calendars. Click on the links in the Take Action box on the right to help our efforts at the Capitol. Sex Education The Texas House Committee on Public […]
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Support Women's Health and Funding for Family Planning in Texas
Two years ago this week, the Texas Legislature slashed the family planning budget by two-thirds. On Thursday the Texas House of Representatives will take up a proposed budget that restores most of that funding. But those funds are vulnerable to attack when the budget is debated. Show your support by clicking here to share the […]
Why Is Texas Moving Backward on Women's Access to Birth Control?
If, under Griswold, the distribution of contraceptives to married persons cannot be prohibited, a ban on distribution to unmarried persons would be equally impermissible. It is true that, in Griswold, the right of privacy in question inhered in the marital relationship. Yet the marital couple is not an independent entity, with a mind and heart […]
Anti-Sex Ed and Anti-Birth Control Bills on the Move in the Texas Legislature
4:30 p.m., March 12, UPDATE: We just got word that HB 649 has been removed from the House State Affairs Committee’ s Wednesday meeting agenda. *** The right’s war on sex education and women’s access to birth control continues at the Texas Legislature. Two key bills on those issues face important steps in the legislative […]
A Minister Gets Sermon on Morality from Legislative Staffers
TFN Insider is pleased to present this guest post from Rev. Beth Ellen Cooper of Northwoods Unitarian Universalist Church. Rev. Cooper participated in TFN’s clergy gathering earlier this week in support of access to birth control and state funding for family planning. She blogs regularly for the Houston Chronicle at Keep the Faith. Process Matters […]
