| December 2005: |
| Women, children last |
| Editorial Houston Chronicle Dec. 27, 2005 An irrational, secretive redistribution of millions of dollars robs Texas' poorest women of ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| Conservative Texas justice offers insider's insight on Miers |
| By Pete Slover The Dallas Morning News October 5, 2005 AUSTIN Like an ...
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| Miers once donated to Texas anti-abortion group |
| By Matt Curry Associated Press October 4, 2005 Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers donated $150 to ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| The Flores Case |
| By Eleanor J. Bader Z Magazine September 2005 In the early 1970s Peggy Romberg, CEO of the Women Health ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| Texas judge at center of Washington debate |
| By Bennet Roth Houston Chronicle (Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON - Four years after President Bush nominated her to ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| Can pharmacists opt out? |
| By John Young, Opinion page editor Waco Tribune-Herald Increasingly we are governed by ideologies that don't in any ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| The wrong prescription at State Affairs |
| By Jordan Smith Austin Chronicle April 13 was a tough day for Rep. Frank "The Fetus" Corte, ...
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| Morality and medicine make a volatile mixture |
| Editorial San Antonio Express-News Pharmacists are supposed to dispense medicine, not morality. But with ideological warfare ...
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| Women's rights bills up for debate |
| By Allie Rasmus www.news8austin.com The Texas House State Affairs Committee heard a long ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| Texas Considers 'Conscience Clause' for Pharmacists |
| By Janet Heimlich NPR: All Things Considered A bill in Texas state legislature would protect pharmacists who refuse ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| March 2005: |
| Mutually assured destruction |
| Editorial Board Austin American-Statesman A threatened rules change by Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate that would ...
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| A matter of choice |
| By Parth Gejji The Daily Texan Mary Levy, head of the Austin Travis County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners' program, ...
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| 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 ...
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| Abortion bill would forbid coercion |
| By Peggy Fikac San Antonio Express-News AUSTIN A bill to require parental consent for an underage girl ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| January 2005: |
| Legislature to tackle emergency contraception bill |
| Associated Press Jan. 31, 2005 AUSTIN Texas hospitals would have to provide rape victims with a ...
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| Viewpoints: Bill protects overzealous pharmacists |
| Opinion The Daily Texan January 25, 2005 In January of last year, pharmacists at an Eckerd drug store in ...
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| 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 ...
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| Rallies mark Roe v. Wade anniversary |
| Associated Press January 22, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Activists on both sides of the abortion issue ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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 ...
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| 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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