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Austin Feminist One-Year Anniversary Tweetup Saturday 12/1 With The Lilith Fund!
Austin feminists and allies, please allow me to cordially (OR NOT SO CORDIALLY IN ALL CAPS) invite you to tomorrow’s joint #ATXFEM/Lilith Fund tweet-up and happy hour! Our first tweet-up, at which the #ATXFEM hashtag was born, was December 3, … Continue reading
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Texas Continues To Play Ping-Pong With Low-Income Women’s Health
Despite claims that the new Texas Women’s Health Program–the state program built so that Governor Perry and conservative legislators can pontificate about banning abortion “affiliates” from participation–would launch November 1st with a stable full of providers ready and willing to … Continue reading
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Rick Perry Digs Mitt Romney’s Stance On Abortion. But Which One?
If Rick Perry is cool with your stance on abortion, chances are you’re not a moderate. Chances are you believe, like Rick Perry, that Roe v. Wade is “shameful,” that Planned Parenthood does harm, that women can’t be trusted to make good decisions about their … Continue reading
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The State Of Texas Thinks You Can Get A Pap Smear At An Endoscopy Clinic
I’m jumping on the wheezing Hay Ladies! here to show that despite the blog’s superlag, I have in no way given up on writing about feminism and women’s rights in Texas. To the contrary, I’m doing more work for RHRealityCheck.org, … Continue reading
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Preach On, Jacquielynn Floyd!
At last, Bill Zedler’s one-man-abortion-requirement-machine is getting play in the mainstream media: the Dallas Morning News picked up the story on Friday, and today columnist Jacquielynn Floyd has a scathing take on what the Zedler requirements are really about: shaming, pressuring, … Continue reading
Democracy-Schmemocracy For Texas Health Bureaucrats; But There’s Hope!
Remember that time the Texas Department of State Health Services was all, “Hi, Tea Party Republican Rep. Bill Zedler, is there anything we can do for you in terms of passing unnecessary and invasive abortion reporting requirements meant to intimidate doctors and … Continue reading
This is what an activist court looks like: Planned Parenthood once again blocked from Texas’ WHP
Remember yesterday when everyone was so happy that Planned Parenthood got temporary permission to continue participating in the Texas Women’s Health Program? Time to stop being happy: the hyper-conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled overnight that it’s an “emergency” … Continue reading
Anti-Choice Legislators In Texas No Longer Subject To Stupid Democratic Process
Representative Bill Zedler–Arlington, represent!–couldn’t get his creepy, Orwellian information-gathering amendment passed wherein he wanted to gather as much information as possible on abortion-seeking women, so he just told the State Department of Health Services to institute as much of it … Continue reading
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Picking Apart Rick Perry’s WHP Claims: Surprise! He’s Playing Politics With Women’s Health.
This week for RH Reality Check, I look at two questions, one of which is more infuriating than the other. The first is, what will Texas’ new state-funded WHP look like? The second is, Can Rick Perry tell the fucking … Continue reading
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Goodbye, Texas Women’s Health Program
By the end of April, the Texas Women’s Health Program will either be a thing of the past or a shadow of its former self, as I report today for RHRealityCheck.org. No matter what any Republican tells you, the Obama … Continue reading
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