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Reproductive Rights

Texas has become a laboratory for bad ideas when it comes to reproductive rights. In recent years state lawmakers have passed some of the toughest anti-abortion measures in the country, essentially making the procedure almost inaccessible for many Texas women.

The Texas Freedom Network supports efforts to ensure women have access to abortion and other reproductive health care services. That access requires adequate state funding and broad availability of birth control, especially for low-income women.

Resources

  • Just Texas: Faith Voices for Reproductive Justice
  • Just Say Don’t Know: Sex Education in Texas Public Schools (2009 report)
  • Sex Education in Public Schools: Progress in the Lone Star State (2011 report)
  • Texans Stand Up for Access to Birth Control: Results from a Statewide Survey of Texas Voters (2013 report)

As Texas Previews a ‘Post-Roe World,’ Abortion Providers Deserve More Than Our Gratitude.

March 10, 2022

March 10th is National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day—and as we celebrate the vital work of the medical professionals who continually show up with compassion for patients in need of health care, it’s impossible to ignore that Texans are effectively living in a post-Roe world. Abortion providers deserve more than our gratitude. They need our support. […]

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Texas Freedom Network Statement on the 49th Anniversary of Roe Ruling

January 20, 2022

As Saturday nears, marking the 49th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which correctly found that access to abortion is a constitutional right, the future of abortion care is uncertain. […]

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Misplaced Priorities: Texas Senate Committee Turns Attention from Unresolved COVID and Power Crises to Abortion Bans

March 15, 2021

Even as COVID death toll rises and Texans still recover from last month’s deadly power outage, Republicans who run the Texas Senate are pressing ahead with the abortion wars. See our press release today. […]

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Advocates Call on Texas State Board of Education to Address Sex Education, Climate Change in New Curriculum Standards

September 8, 2020

The Texas Freedom Network joined with hundreds of advocates today to call on the State Board of Education to adopt new curriculum standards that provide comprehensive, inclusive information on sex education and reflect the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. […]

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Public Hearing: It’s Time to Teach the Truth on Sex Education in Texas

June 29, 2020

More than 260 people signed up to testify at a public hearing today as the State Board of Education considers an overhaul of health education standards — including standards on sex education — for Texas public schools. Check out our press release. […]

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