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: […]
war on women
2016 in Quotes: The Wars on Women, Abortion and Sex Education
We continue our review of the outrageous and offensive things we heard from the right in 2016. The right’s wars on women, abortion and sex education continued in full force throughout the year. Let’s review some of what we heard from the right on these issues. You can check out previous posts from the Year in […]
TFNEF Launches Ad Campaign Pushing Back Against Political Attacks on State Health Researchers
The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund today is launching a new statewide campaign confronting Texas politicians who have attacked state health researchers for telling the truth about the negative impact their policies are having on women’s health care. This bold new public engagement strategy, Texas: State of Denial, aims to shed light on the war on women […]
Anti-abortion Texas Lawmaker Apparently Thought Rape Was a Joking Matter
Scott Braddock of the Austin-based online political website Quorum Report has come across a stunningly callous and offensive comment state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Fort Worth, made some years back in an online forum: “Rape is non existent in marriage, take what you want my friend!” Stickland, a hero of tea partiers and religious-righters, apparently made the shocking […]
He Just Doesn’t Get It
“Last I checked we don’t have a rubber shortage in America. When I was in college we had a machine in the bathroom, you put .50 cents in and voila! So yes, anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, but it’s an utterly made-up nonsense issue.” That’s Texas Senator Ted Cruz at a presidential campaign event […]
