Five Takeaways From the 2019 Elections
Huge victories for reproductive health champions send a big signal about key issues that may swing elections in 2020
Texas extremists want more money for its failed Women's Health Program. Will Trump give it to them?
The impact of this scheme is DEVASTATING for Texas women.
Aug. 4, 2017
Texas Wants Federal Support to 'Defund' Planned Parenthood. It's Time for an Outcry.
Anti-abortion politicians in Texas dismantled reproductive health care access — and women paid the price. Now, the Trump administration could green-light this failed program.
May 16, 2017
Be a PP Defender
Defenders are a core group of supporters who have said they'll give their time to defend Planned Parenthood, the health services they provide, and the people who rely on them — in what just may be the fight of our lives.
Rahs and Nahs: A Recap of the Best and Worst of State Reproductive Health Policy
Some public officials have made vocal defenses of their constituents’ reproductive rights, while others have outdone themselves to legislate private medical decisions.
Feb. 14, 2017
The Top 5 Things You Need to Know Right Now About Attacks on Reproductive Health in Texas
The Most Recent Attacks Are Part of a Systematic, Long-Term Agenda to Ban Safe and Legal Abortion
Oct. 30, 2015
Texas Timeline: 5 Big Blows to Reproductive Health in the Past 5 Years
If you want to see the result of Republican leadership's devastating attacks on women's health, look no farther away than Texas. This timeline reveals how low the Texas legislature has sunk in just the past five years, and how hard we need to fight to win back reproductive health care access for Texans.
Oct. 26, 2015
Texas Governor Signs Measure Blocking Low-Income Women’s Access to Cancer Screenings
The night of June 20, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a devastating budget that blocks low-income women from accessing free breast and cervical cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program. This follows years of hostile policies that have left tens of thousands of Texas women without access to cancer screenings, birth control, HIV tests and other preventive care.
June 22, 2015
Best and Worst of 2014: “Really?!” Moment of the Year
The Republican National Committee won this dubious distinction for claiming to support equal pay for women just weeks before a large majority of Republicans in Congress voted to block equal pay legislation.
Dec. 11, 2014
Supreme Court Reopens Abortion Providers in Texas — For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court just put a hold on provisions of a Texas law that threatens to eviscerate access to safe, legal abortion in the state for tens of thousands of women. The Court’s Oct. 14 order temporarily allows health centers that were forced to close earlier this month to resume providing abortions.
Oct. 17, 2014
Women’s Health Decisions Shouldn’t Be Political
A few weeks ago I saw the National Journal’s latest polling that shows women feel that the Republican Party is moving further away from them and had to weigh in. As the days went by I decided I wanted to discuss the results of this polling that shows only 14 percent of women think the GOP is now closer to representing their views since the 2012 election.
Oct. 25, 2013