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Tribpedia: Texas Freedom Network

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The Texas Freedom Network (TFN) was founded by Cecile Richards in 1995 to, according to its mission statement "advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties to counter the religious right."

TFN fights against initiatives backed by conservative religious groups in Texas, including private school vouchers, certain textbook and curriculum changes, and faith-based deregulation.

The President and Executive ...

Perry, Social Conservatives and the Road to the Top

by Ross Ramsey
July 14, 2011
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photo illustration by: Caleb Bryant Miller

Rick Perry sits at the top of one of the country's most conservative state Republican parties, having forged a coalition of economic, religious and social conservatives that helped him become the state's longest-serving governor — and poised for a national political run.

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Cecile Richards in TX, Defends Planned Parenthood

by Todd Wiseman and Thanh Tan
May 11, 2011
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards, a native Texan and daughter of former Gov. Ann Richards, visited the Capitol on Wednesday to defend funding for womens' health services.

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TribWeek: Top Texas News for the Week of Mar. 14, 2011

by Ross Ramsey
March 19, 2011

Grissom on threats to re-entry programs for criminals, Hamilton on the tempest over the direction of UT, E. Smith's interview with Joe Straus, Stiles and Chang's new lobbying app, M. Smith and Weber on where state officeholders send their children to school, Aaronson on allowing new nuclear power plants, Aguilar on how Hispanic Republicans are handling immigration issues, Ramshaw talks abortion with Planned Parennthood's Cecile Richards, Tan and Dehn on tapping the Rainy Day Fund and Galbraith on San Antonio and its water: The best of our best content from March 14 to 18, 2011.

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Cecile Richards: The TT Interview

by Emily Ramshaw
March 17, 2011
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The president of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Democratic Gov. Ann Richards on Republican lawmakers’ efforts to defund her organization, a Texas attorney general’s opinion she says will keep low-income women from preventative care, and how her mother would’ve handled all of this.

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photo by: Marjorie Kamys Cotera

State Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio speaks to youth group in Austin to advocate for more comprehensive sex education in public schools. March 8th, 2011

Students Talk Sex at the Capitol

by Christopher Smith Gonzalez
March 8, 2011
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High school and college students from across Texas came to the Capitol today to talk sex ed with lawmakers.

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