Common tactics within the anti-abortion movement include plenty of fear mongering and promoting of bunk science. If you can even call it science. Take, for example, Carol Everett of the anti-abortion organization The Heidi Group. Everett was on Fox 7 Austin this week defending a move by Texas officials, with the support of Gov. Greg Abbott, […]
Reproductive Rights
TEXANS TO JANE NELSON: STOP IGNORING THE FACTS ON WOMEN’S HEALTH
Triumphant Boasts about Increasing Budgets and Providers Belie the Facts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Aug. 1, 2016 AUSTIN – Today the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund, as part of its Texas: State of Denial campaign (StateOfDenialTX.org), delivered almost 7,000 letters from Texans to Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, calling on her to stop playing politics and […]
Unhinged Fury from the Right over Abortion Decision
Advocates for women’s reproductive health care are still celebrating Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down some of the most extreme anti-abortion regulations passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 (House Bill 2). But we’ve been monitoring the almost unhinged and even violence-themed fury from the right over the court’s clear acknowledgment that those regulations were really intended to close […]
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK STATEMENT ON THE SUPREME COURT’S ABORTION DECISION TODAY
This Victory Doesn’t End the Fight for the Dignity of Women and their Constitutional Right to Make their Own Health Care Decisions FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2016 Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller has the following statement on today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down key provisions of Texas’ extreme anti-abortion law: […]
Will You Be There for the SCOTUS Ruling on TX Abortion Laws?
We’re expecting a decision on the Texas abortion law, HB2, in the next week. Whichever day the ruling comes down, TFN has several ways you can get involved immediately: […]
