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December 2005:
Women, children last
Editorial Houston Chronicle Dec. 27, 2005 An irrational, secretive redistribution of millions of dollars robs Texas' poorest women of ...
Groups concerned by grants promoting pregnancy over abortion
By Jim Vertuno San Antonio Express News December 13, 2005 Groups concerned by grants promoting pregnancy over abortion ...
 
November 2005:
Federal debate continues over effectiveness of sex education curriculum
By Erin Steel Killeen Daily Herald November 20, 2005 Coach Karen Koehler leaned against her desk Thursday ...
Only Two Groups Apply for Texas State Funding To Promote Abortion Alternatives Because of Strict Requirements
KaiserNetwork.org State Politics & Policy Friday, November 18, 2005 Only two Texas groups applied to receive $5 million set ...
Conservative Texas justice offers insider's insight on Miers
By Pete Slover The Dallas Morning News October 5, 2005 AUSTIN – Like an ...
Miers once donated to Texas anti-abortion group
By Matt Curry Associated Press October 4, 2005 Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers donated $150 to ...
 
October 2005:
Pregnancy program's draft of rules draws fire
By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, October 01, 2005 State initiative would bar groups that refer women for ...
 
September 2005:
Legislation to affect sex offenders, minors seeking abortions
By Marjon Rostami and Yashoda Sampath The Daily Texan No more Viagra for sex offenders using Medicare, according ...
Doctors left to figure out compliance with abortion consent law
By Kelley Shannon Associated Press August 26, 2005 A Texas law requiring doctors to get parental consent for minors ...
New state law requires parental notification. Teenage girls getting abortions must get written permission
By Marjon Rostami The Daily Texan Teenage girls seeking an abortion will have to comply with a new Texas ...
Panel of alumnae focuses on threats to abortion rights. Speakers say right to choose still at issue with court vacancies
By Ginger Brown The Daily Texan Leading figures in Texas women's movement in the '60s and '70s held ...
Abortion law could mean death penalty for doctors. Lawmakers say that wasn't their intent when they passed measure
By Kelley Shannon American-Stateman Staff August 30, 2005 Texas doctors who perform abortions without parental approval or during the ...
The Flores Case
By Eleanor J. Bader Z Magazine September 2005 In the early 1970s Peggy Romberg, CEO of the Women Health ...
 
August 2005:
Abortion Limits Passed. Bill with consent rule, restrictions goes to supportive governor
By Christy Hoppe The Dallas Morning News May 26, 2005 AUSTIN – New abortion ...
 
May 2005:
Senate signs off on abortion bill. Another call for parental consent heads to the House
By Jeffrey Gilbert Houston Chronicle (Austin Bureau) AUSTIN - Girls would have to get a parent's written consent ...
Family planning losing, anti-abortion gaining
By Lomi Kriel San Antonio Express-News (Austin Bureau) AUSTIN — Almost $5 million will be cut from health screening ...
Senate approves bill requiring parental consent
By John Moritz Ft. Worth Star-Telegram (Austin Bureau) AUSTIN - Girls who are 17 or younger would need a ...
Abortion consent bill OK'd. Senate bill requiring written parental permission has support in House
By Christy Hoppe The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – Parents would have to give written permission for ...
Texas judge at center of Washington debate
By Bennet Roth Houston Chronicle (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON - Four years after President Bush nominated her to ...
House passes abortion measures. Parental consent, changes to third-trimester abortion limits win strong support.
By Michelle M. Martinez American-Statesman Staff The state House on Monday passed a measure that would require ...
Abortion bill crumbles in House. For second time in week, parental consent legislation takes hit on technicality
By Michelle M. Martinez American-Stateman Staff A proposal to require unmarried minors to have parental consent before getting ...
Parental consent bill is derailed. An error gets a controversial plan on minors' abortions taken off House floor
By Polly Ross Hughes and Jeffrey Gilbert Houston Chronicle AUSTIN - A contentious bill that would require ...
Rhetoric heats up in fight over judicial nominees
By Gary Martin San Antonio Express-News (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans marked the four-year anniversary of the ...
Owen at center of filibuster fight. Both sides use a Texas justice's record to argue their points
By Bennet Roth Houston Chronicle (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON - The Senate moved closer Monday to a confrontation over ...
 
April 2005:
Hot-Button Issues: Texas doesn't need these laws
Editorial Board Dallas Morning News The culture war is surfacing in Austin. The big national debates over gay ...
Can pharmacists opt out?
By John Young, Opinion page editor Waco Tribune-Herald Increasingly we are governed by ideologies that don't in any ...
OK expected for parent consent bill. Measure would stiffen rules for young women seeking abortions
By Christy Hoppe The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – A young woman would have to get a parent's ...
Pills and Proscriptions. Pharmacists whose beliefs prevent their filling valid, lawful prescriptions should find a new line of work.
Editorial Houston Chronicle Last week, members of the Texas House State Affairs Committee heard testimony on a bill ...
Waging a moral battle from behind the counter Pharmacists' refusal to fill contraception prescriptions Prompts the question: Whose choice is it to make?
By Katie Fairbank The Dallas Morning News FABENS, Texas - Steve Mosher's Medicine Shoppe pharmacy is inside a ...
A new dawn in the debate on 'morning-after' pill. Some say abortion foes using legislative wins to go after legitimate drug.
By Christy Hoppe The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - State Rep. Senfronia Thompson recently introduced a bill saying ...
The wrong prescription at State Affairs
By Jordan Smith Austin Chronicle April 13 was a tough day for Rep. Frank "The Fetus" Corte, ...
Morality and medicine make a volatile mixture
Editorial San Antonio Express-News Pharmacists are supposed to dispense medicine, not morality. But with ideological warfare ...
Women's rights bills up for debate
By Allie Rasmus www.news8austin.com The Texas House State Affairs Committee heard a long ...
Ultrasound equipment for crisis pregnancy centers: Legislation details
Bill Number: S. 755 Sponsor: Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) Last Sponsor Date: Sep. 28, 2005 Legislation Details ...
Kill bill. HB 16: Pharmacists don't need it, Texans don't want it
By Susan Pagani San Antonio Current It's bad enough that most health insurance will only allow ...
Texas Considers 'Conscience Clause' for Pharmacists
By Janet Heimlich NPR: All Things Considered A bill in Texas state legislature would protect pharmacists who refuse ...
The right gaining ear of GOP-controlled Capitol
By Ellena F. Morrison Ft. Worth Star-Telegram AUSTIN - Socially conservative organizations -- like a popular girl on prom ...
Make peace, not war on judicial nominees
Editorial San Antonio Express-News If ever there were a time for old-fashioned political deal-making, it is now in ...
 
March 2005:
Mutually assured destruction
Editorial Board Austin American-Statesman A threatened rules change by Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate that would ...
A matter of choice
By Parth Gejji The Daily Texan Mary Levy, head of the Austin Travis County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners' program, ...
 
February 2005:
Bid to revisit the Roe vs. Wade decision rejected
By Maro Robbins San Antonio Express-News The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reopen the landmark case Roe ...
Abortion bill would forbid coercion
By Peggy Fikac San Antonio Express-News AUSTIN — A bill to require parental consent for an underage girl ...
Abortion should be rare -- and here's how to make that happen
By Alberta Phillips Austin American-Statesman Over the years, I have met very few women who didn't ...
Bill would allow pharmacists to deny women 'morning after' pill
By John Craven KCEN-TV NBC News 6 What if your pharmacist could refuse to fill your prescription because ...
Finding the middle ground
Editorial Board Austin American-Statesman The most rigid positions on abortion have ruled the pro-life, pro-choice debate for so long ...
Rape bill calls for easy contraception access
By Peggy Fikac San Antonio Express-News AUSTIN — Hospitals in Texas would have to inform women who have been ...
Bill would give rape victims emergency pill. Second bill would establish standard of care for people who have been assaulted
By Katie Humphrey Austin American-Statesman Sexual assault victims would have access to emergency contraception and a ...
 
January 2005:
Legislature to tackle emergency contraception bill
Associated Press Jan. 31, 2005 AUSTIN — Texas hospitals would have to provide rape victims with a ...
Viewpoints: Bill protects overzealous pharmacists
Opinion The Daily Texan January 25, 2005 In January of last year, pharmacists at an Eckerd drug store in ...
Roe v. Wade milestone brings discussion
By Marjon Rostami The Daily Texan January 24, 2005 An estimated 2,000 pro-life demonstrators gathered at Republic Square ...
Rallies mark Roe v. Wade anniversary
Associated Press January 22, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Activists on both sides of the abortion issue ...
Perry pushes parental consent at rally
By Peggy Fikac San Antonio Express News January 22, 2005 AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry told an anti-abortion crowd ...
Anti-abortion activists rally for parental consent bill
By Natalie Gott Associated Press January 23, 2005 Hundreds of anti-abortion activists rallied at the Capitol on Saturday as ...
Abortion foes tap governor; Perry will headline rally at Capitol next weekend.
By Peggy Fikac San Antonio Express-News January 15, 2005 AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry, who may face a ...
Parental consent now on agenda
By Peggy Fikac San Antonio Express-News January 3, 2005 AUSTIN — Abortion opponents buoyed by past legislative successes are ...
 

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