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 […]
Reproductive Rights
Equality, Civil Liberties Groups Denounce Shameful Deal Pitting Rights of Transgender Texans against Planned Parenthood Funding
Last week Texas House members shamefully bartered over the lives of transgender Texans and women’s access to health care services. Today the Texas Freedom Network joined with our coalition partners to call out this outrageous bargain. Here’s the press release we sent out: […]
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. […]
Tell Texas House Committee Members: Don’t Let Doctors Lie to Pregnant Patients
The war on women’s reproductive health care in Texas continues on Wednesday, when the House State Affairs Committee holds a hearing on another bill that would turn lies into laws. […]
Young Texans Bring Progressive Agenda of LGBTQ Equality, Reproductive and Voting Rights to Elected Officials in Austin
Texas Rising members also deliver bathroom passes to legislators to highlight opposition to discriminatory ‘bathroom bill’ […]
