Tag Archives: Texas
Texas court rules funds can be cut from Planned Parenthood
TweetWhile we were Akin-izing (agonizing over Akin), the war on women’s access to basic health care was not asleep. A scary day in Texas, when an appellate court ruled yesterday that the state can strip Planned Parenthood of all funding as they find ways to “protect life” and remove all state funding from groups that provide [...]
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Capital punishment: doesn’t work and takes place mostly in Texas
TweetThe Economist has mapped out all the executions that have taken place in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Not surprisingly, as Think Progress points out, “[o]ver one-third of all executions during this period took place in Texas, for a total of 481 people killed by that state. Of the [...]
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“Save The Storks” and other guerrilla anti-choice tactics
Tweet (If you see this bus driving around–please run and call a friend. It’s full of people that want to force their scary beliefs on to you) On the spot ultrasounds seem to be taking the anti-choice country by storm. First, in Texas, where there is a rogue van called “Save the Storks” that is driving [...]
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Texas willing to throw 130,000 poor women under the bus to stick it to Planned Parenthood
TweetVia KYBOOMU, it seems that Texas, in its stubborn quest to deny funding to Planned Parenthood, is willing to sacrifice an effective and much-needed program that provides reproductive health care to 130,000 thousand low-income women. Last year, the Texas legislature passed a law making it illegal for the state to provide Medicaid funds to any [...]
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This week in victim-blaming: 11-year-old gang-rape survivor as seductive “spider”