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December 2006:
NARAL chief relishing role as messenger
Bruce Hight AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Sunday, December 17, 2006 Nancy Keenan came by during a visit to Austin last week, ...
Rodriguez Victory Marks 23rd Pro-Choice Pick-Up in House of Representatives
NARAL Pro-Choice America For immediate release December 13, 2006 Washington, DC – Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, ...
Trained Midwives can Provide Safe Abortions
Ivanhoe Newswire KXAN.com Austin December 9, 2006 Government-trained midwives can provide abortions to women in their first trimester as ...
Frank 'The Fetus' Strikes Again
By Jordan Smith The Austin Chronicle December 1, 2006 Seemingly undaunted by his failure to push through legislation in ...
Abortion foes unable to win House OK for fetal pain bill
By NOAM N. LEVEY Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2006, 9:51PM WASHINGTON — House Republicans opposed to abortion ...
Fam-Planning Uproar
BY JORDAN SMITH The Austin Chronicle DECEMBER 1, 2006 Twenty-four organizations – including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the ...
RU-486 Stops Tumors In Mice
Associated Press KEYE Austin December 1, 2006 WASHINGTON Scientists used the abortion drug RU-486 to keep tumors at bay ...
 
November 2006:
House Republicans Want to Schedule Vote on Abortion Bill While They Still Can
By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer November 29, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- While they still can, House Republicans ...
Demeaning to women: A physician known for peddling bad science gains power over health services for millions
Editorial Houston Chronicle Nov. 28, 2006 Everybody makes mistakes. Doctors, even excellent ones, are not exempt. But a physician ...
America Chose Choice
By Marie Cocco TruthDig.com November 21, 2006 WASHINGTON—America chose choice. Before we end the mind-numbing analysis of ...
Watchdog: Efforts to assess accuracy, effectiveness of abstinence programs lacking
Associated Press KXAN.com Austin November 17, 2006 WASHINGTON The Government Accountability Office says most federally-backed abstinence programs aren't ...
Choosing choice: Referendums nationwide made it clear that Americans favor the status quo on abortion rights
Editorial Los Angeles Times November 11, 2006 THE BALLOTS CAST across the nation spoke so unambiguously about abortion that ...
Early bills give glimpse of legislative agendas
By April Castro ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, November 14, 2006 The Texas of the future will be tougher on illegal ...
Court doesn't tip hand in case on late-term abortions
By Charles Lane The Washington Post November 9, 2006 WASHINGTON – Two hours of oral argument at the Supreme ...
Justices engage in sharp questioning with both sides in abortion arguments
November 8, 2006 The Associated Press WASHINGTON: Supreme Court justices Wednesday sharply questioned attorneys on both sides of the ...
South Dakotans Reject Abortion Measure
By CHET BROKAW Wednesday November 8, 2006 Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota voters on Tuesday ...
After aggressive campaign, Cohen prevails in District 134
By LORI RODRIGUEZ Nov. 8, 2006, 2:40AM Houston Chronicle In what was expected to be the tightest state ...
 
September 2006:
New rules will require written parental consent for abortions
By Polly Ross Hughes Houston Chronicle September 1, 2006 AUSTIN — After 13 months of intense pressure from ...
 
August 2006:
'Morning-After' Pill Approved for Over-the-Counter Sales
By Amanda Gardner Austin KXAN.com THURSDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) After three years of delay, the U.S. Food and ...
Plan B also works for families: 'Morning after' pill helped me and wife preserve ours
By DAVID L. ULIN Houston Chronicle Aug. 12, 2006, 8:32PM Not long ago, in an act of near-adolescent abandon, ...
Daylight for 'morning-after'
Editorial Waco Tribune Saturday, August 12, 2006 When it comes to approving and monitoring the drugs, medicines and food ...
Pregnant? Need Help? Don't Call Us.
BY JORDAN SMITH Austin Chronicle AUGUST 4, 2006 Having Your Baby You're young, pregnant, and scared. Don't call ...
 
July 2006:
Death row for doctors? Absurd – but possible
EDITORIAL Austin American-Statesman Monday, July 17, 2006 Imagine a Texas doctor facing the possibility of the death penalty for ...
Report: Women misled on abortion risks
KEVIN FREKING Associated Press Tuesday, July 18, 2006 WASHINGTON - Women who consult with pregnancy resource centers often get ...
'Resource centers' found to mislead about abortion
By MARC KAUFMAN Washington Post July 23, 2006, 9:42AM WASHINGTON - Federally funded "pregnancy resource centers" are incorrectly ...
Young: The unfathomable war against contraception
By JOHN YOUNG Cox News Service Monday, July 03, 2006 WACO, Texas - Two significant and long-awaited statements came ...
 
June 2006:
Fighting the Sex War
Jordan Smith Austin Chronicle 6/15/2006 Could it be that the pro-life movement – behind such, ahem, winning policies as ...
Overkill
Editorial The Texas Observer 6/2/2006 An ambitious group of right-to-lifers is taking credit for preventing construction of a proposed ...
What Happens When There Is No Plan B?
By Dana L. Washington Post Sunday Outlook Sunday, June 4, 2006; B01 The conservative politics of the Bush administration ...
 
May 2006:
Wasn't broken
Editorial Houston Chronicle May 21, 2006 The state health department is providing millions to repair a sabotaged family planning ...
The new lies about women's health
By Brian Alexander Glamour May 2006 Political groups tell them, the government buys them—and worst of all, your doctor ...
FDA chief's secret 'Plan B' meeting
By Kathleen Kerr, Staff Writer Newsday.com May 12, 2006 An attorney for a women's rights group told a Brooklyn ...
OB-GYNs urge women to get morning-after pill in advance. Unwanted pregnancies targeted, but confusion reigns
By Diane Jennings The Dallas Morning News May 10, 2006 The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists kicked ...
For religious right, session isn't all about taxes. Work against abortion, stem cells taken up in case agenda expands
By Karen Brooks The Dallas Morning News May 10, 2006 AUSTIN -- In Texas politics these days, ...
Doctors: Get morning-after pills early
Houston Chronicle Associated Press May 8, 2006 WASHINGTON — Get an advance prescription for emergency contraception so it ...
The art of harrassing abortion seekers
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards Salon.com May 2, 2006 This is one of the most disturbing stories we've heard in ...
Exposing Anti-Choice Abortion Clinics
By Amanda Marcotte AlterNet Monday 01 May 2006 Misleading 'crisis pregnancy centers' are appearing across America, aiming to limit ...
 
April 2006:
Abortion Ban Foes Petition for a Choice
By Stephanie Simon, Times Staff Writer Los Angeles Times April 9, 2006 Even some conservative South Dakotans sign ...
No Roe challenge foreseen in Texas
By Lisa Falkenberg Houston Chronicle February 26, 2006 No Roe challenge foreseen in Texas: Foes are content to ...
Peddling Deception
By Nancy Keenan, President, NARAL Pro-Choice America © TomPaine.com (A project of The Institute for America's Future) March 31, 2006 ...
 
March 2006:
Texas Health Commission Awards $5M In State Family Planning Funds Set Aside For Abortion Alternatives
Medical News Today 29 Mar 2006 The Texas Health and Human Services Commission recently awarded the Texas Pregnancy Care ...
Family planning funds go to agency promoting birth
Tracy Idell Hamilton San Antonio Express-News Staff Writer Web Posted: 03/23/2006 12:00 AM CST Five million dollars ...
Grants Flow To Bush Allies On Social Issues
By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 22, 2006; Page A01 For years, conservatives have complained ...
Teen abortion down since notification law passed: 17-year-olds delaying procedure, study finds
By Laura Beil The Dallas Morning News March 8, 2006 Abortion rates among Texas minors have dropped, apparently because ...
Abortion rates fall for minors
Cindy Tumiel & Nicole Foy San Antonio Express-News Staff Writers March 10, 2006 The rate of abortions performed on ...
Vote may be key to future of abortion: State reps will play large role if Roe is overturned, groups say
By Christy Hoppe Dallas Morning News January 22, 2006 AUSTIN - Both sides on the ...
Texas Taxpayers Fund a Hidden Threat to Latina Health
By Silvia Henriquez and Sarah J. Wheat The Opportunity Agenda As a result of an unprecedented political maneuver by ...
 
February 2006:
Where Waco's family planning dollars went
By John Young, Opinion page editor Waco Tribune-Herald February 12, 2006 John Cornyn had some brushing up to ...
Pregnant? Need help? Call 1-800-PROPAGANDA
Written by moiv www.talk2action.org February 14, 2006 The alarming erosion of any pretense of a wall between ...
 
January 2006:
The New Texas Family Planning
By Jordan Smith The Austin Chronicle January 27, 2006 Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care ...
Hight: A scientist speaks out against an FDA ruling
By Bruce Hight Austin American-Statesman January 23, 2006 Susan Wood did something rare last August. She quit ...
'TRAP' laws single out abortion providers
By Tammie Smith Times-Dispatch Staff Writer January 22, 2006 CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The Planned Parenthood clinic that opened ...
NARAL recalls 'Roe' anniversary
By News 8 Austin Staff January 20, 2006 The Texas chapter of the National Abortion Rights Action League ...
Politics Trumps Science on Birth Control
By Diana Welch Austin Chronicle January 20, 2006 When taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex, ...
Viewpoint: Roe v. Wade under threat
Opinion The Daily Texan January 25, 2006 Thousands demonstrated both in opposition to and in support of ...
Tax Dollars for Pregnancy Centers Raise Church-State Questions
Bob Allen EthicsDaily.com 01-23-06 A decision last year by the Texas Legislature to divert $5 million from family-planning ...
Texas Taxes Spreading the "Pro-Life" Gospel
By moiv www.Talk2Action.org Tue Jan 10, 2006 at 12:59:51 AM EST Last week, in a story about the ongoing ...
Locals protest Alito's nomination
By News 8 Austin Staff January 9, 2006 Advocacy groups in Austin are concerned with Supreme Court ...
Some Austinites Protest Alito's Confirmation Hearing
KXAN.com Austin January 10, 2006 Alito's confirmation hearing in the nation's capital is sparking protests in the Texas ...
 

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