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Air Forces Releases Lackland Sex Abuse Investigation Results
The US Air Force released the results of an investigation into widespread sex abuse charges at the Lackland Air Force Base training facility in Texas this week. As of Wednesday, 23 training instructors...
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“People’s Filibuster” in Texas Successfully Blocks Anti-Choice Legislation
Over 700 Texans last night successfully blocked HB 60, a state bill that would shut down all but 5 abortion providers in the state, from passing in the state House as part of a “people’s filibuster.”...
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Texas Anti-Abortion Law Defeated In Filibuster
Source Texas state Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) successfully blocked an extreme anti-abortion measure from coming to a vote by filibustering the bill for over 10 hours until the end of the...
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Rick Perry Calls Second Special Session on Abortion Restrictions
After a marathon filibuster to defeat an extreme anti-abortion bill, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has called a second special session in an attempt to pass the anti-choice legislation of Senate Bill...
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Texas Second Special Session Begins
Texas Lawmakers return for a second special session today to discuss an anti-abortion bill after last week’s fight to save the majority of clinics in the state. Last Wednesday, Democratic Senator Wendy...
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Texas Passes Anti-Abortion Law, Confiscates Tampons
The Texas state Senate passed an anti-abortion law that threatens to close all but five clinics in the state and has garnered national attention in a vote of 19 to 11 on Friday. Conservative lawmakers...
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Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill Blocking Abortion Restrictions Until Death...
Texas House Representative Harold Dutton Jr. (D) has introduced HB45, a counter-measure that would halt any further abortion restrictions until the state bans capital punishment. The text of the bill...
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More Texas Planned Parenthood Clinics Close
Planned Parenthood closed two rural Texas clinics last week. On top of providing cancer screenings, contraceptives, and preventive exams, the now-closed clinic in Midland provided surgical abortions,...
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Wendy Davis Announces Run For Texas Governor
Wendy Davis announced yesterday that she will run for Texas governor in the November 2014 elections. Second-term Senator Davis (D-Fort Worth) became an overnight icon in June, with the help of social...
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Judge Rules Part of Texas Abortion Law Unconstitutional
Just one day before restrictive abortion laws in Texas were to take effect, a federal district court struck down a provision of the law that would require abortion providers to have hospital admitting...
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Texas Abortion Providers File Emergency Application with US Supreme Court
Texas abortion providers filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday seeking to reinstate an injunction that blocked the application of a state provision requiring doctors who...
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Anti-Abortion Extremists Urge Volunteers to Kidnap Women
A Facebook group called on anti-abortion extremists in Texas to kidnap women who are headed to abortion clinics. Cicada Collective, a pro-choice group that provides a legitimate volunteer shuttle...
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Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas Abortion Law
In a 5-4 decision yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The law, which went into effect on...
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Latinas in Texas Face Human Rights Violations for Restricted Reproductive Rights
The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and the Center for Reproductive Rights released a report last week documenting the impact of state funding cuts to family planning services on...
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Fetus of Brain-Dead Woman Kept On Life Support Against Wishes Found Deformed
The fetus of Marlise Munoz, the pregnant, brain-dead Texas woman who has been kept on life support by her hospital against her and her family’s wishes, has been reported to be “distinctly abnormal.”...
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Hospital Removes Brain-Dead Pregnant Texas Woman From Life Support
Marlise Munoz, the brain-dead pregnant Texas woman who was kept on life support against her and her family’s wishes, was finally disconnected from life support yesterday. via Shutterstock After her...
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Federal Court Hears Challenge to Texas Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Two same-sex couples in Texas have asked a federal judge to hear their case challenging the 2005 amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage. The couples will appear today in a San...
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Texas Closes Abortion Clinic And Suspends Doctor Over Admitting Privileges Law
Officials in Texas have forced a Houston abortion clinic to close and suspended the license of the clinic’s medical director and only abortion provider for failing to comply with a new admitting...
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Texas Gay Marriage Ban
A federal judge in San Antonio yesterday declared Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. via Shutterstock US District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage deprived...
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Three More Texas Abortion Clinics Forced To Close
Three more abortion clinics in Texas have been forced to close this week, thanks to extreme restrictions passed last summer. via Shutterstock Texas had 44 abortion clinics just 3 years ago, but only...
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