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Health care

Senate Panel to Consider Omnibus Abortion Bill

By Becca AaronsonJune 13, 2013

A panel of state senators will convene on Thursday to respond to Gov. Rick Perry’s call to add legislation related to abortion procedures, providers and facilities to the special session.

The Texas Tribune Festival 2012 Opening Session: A Conversation with Gov. Rick Perry and Evan Smith, Sept. 21, 2012.

Health care

“Kumbaya Session” Poised to Be a Distant Memory

By Jay RootJune 12, 2013

After a relatively calm regular session, Gov. Rick Perry is flexing his partisan muscles as the special session presses on. Redistricting, abortion-related issues and a threat to cut off state funding for the Public Integrity Unit are ratcheting up tensions.

In his Jan. 29, 2013, State of the State speech, Gov. Rick Perry avoided hot-topic issues like abortion, immigration and gun control and focused instead on infrastructure, budget reform and education.

Criminal Justice

Abortion-Related Legislation Added to Special Session Agenda

By Jay RootJune 11, 2013

The special session’s agenda now includes the hot-button issue of abortion — which is sure to spark partisan warfare. Gov. Rick Perry also ordered the Legislature to take up a measure dealing with sentences for 17-year-olds convicted of capital felonies.

Health care

Dewhurst Urges Action on Abortion Bills

By Becca AaronsonMay 21, 2013

Ahead of a Wednesday bill-passing deadline, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has sent an email to supporters urging them to ask their senators to vote out several anti-abortion measures.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst at a TribLive event in Austin on Jan 24, 2013.

Health care

Dewhurst Calls for Investigation of Abortion Provider

By Becca Aaronson, The Texas Tribune and Brian Rogers Houston ChronicleMay 15, 2013

Harris County authorities and the Texas Department of State Health Services are investigating a Houston doctor accused Wednesday by an anti-abortion group of performing late-term abortions in 2011.

Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie speaks with Rep. Todd Hunter R-Corpus Christi and Rep. Abel Herrero D-Robstown on House floor before voting on HB 10 February 21st, 2013

State Government

Agenda Texas: Bill Kill, Vol. 1

By Ben Philpott, KUT NewsMay 10, 2013

On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: Deadlines in the Texas House have come and gone. Now lawmakers are left to pick up the pieces for next session, or to find another way to get their bills passed.

Health care

TribuneFest: The State of Women’s Health

By Evan SmithMay 3, 2013

At the Trib’s April 25 symposium on health care at the University of Texas at Austin, Emily Ramshaw talked about the state of women’s health in Texas with state Reps. Sarah Davis, R-West University Place, and Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola; Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Woman’s Health; and Joe Potter of UT-Austin’s Population Research Center.

A nurse explains to a patient the effects of taking the abortion pill at Whole Woman's Health Surgical Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Proposed state legislation would create greater restrictions on abortion facilities. Only five of the existing facilities offering abortions would meet the standards.

Health care

House Panel Debates Changes to State Booklet on Abortion

By Becca AaronsonApril 10, 2013

A House committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that would remove language in a state booklet distributed to women seeking an abortion that suggests induced abortion can increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

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