Showing posts with label texas legislature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label texas legislature. Show all posts

Friday, August 18, 2017

Texas' Special Session Post-Mortem

This week family physician and regular Houston Chronicle public health op-ed author Dr. Bich-May Nguyen MD and Mary Tuma Women's Health Reporter at the Austin Chronicle joined me to talk about the effects of the special session on women's health.


Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Legislative Update with Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson of Rewire News joined me and Sonia Van Meter of Stanford Campaigns for a Texas 85th Legislative Session update. There's never enough time to talk about all of the bills that will affect reproductive justice.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Abbott & Texas HHSC Push Fetal Funeral Provision on Women

Mary Tuma of the Austin Chronicle and Alexa Garcia-Ditta of NARAL Pro-Choice Texas joined me to talk about the recently approved fetal funeral regulation put in place by Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Greg Abbott, sore loser of Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, Abbott is looking to waste millions more in taxpayer dollars to defend a provision which is a wholly unconstitutional undue burden that does nothing to improve the health or well-being of one person.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Tampongate Violence Yields Justice

Cindy Noland of Faith Action for Women in Need joins to recount the assault she faced on the last day of the special session that resulted in Tampongate. Her assaulter was convicted and was court-ordered to take anger management classes.