Republican lawmakers say that no matter how many women show up to the Capitol to protest an abortion bill, they have the votes to pass it and will in this session.
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Video: Protesters Fill Capitol Rotunda With Song
Before lawmakers gaveled in for the second special legislative session on Monday afternoon, abortion rights advocates sang their own rendition of “Amazing Grace” in the Capitol rotunda.
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Video: Protesters Credited, Cursed for Abortion Bill Defeat
As Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called for a second special session on abortion restrictions, the drama of Tuesday night’s explosive fight in the Texas Senate continued to reverberate.
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Interactive: Tracking Abortion Legislation
Abortion is usually a contentious issue in the Texas Legislature, but this session, lawmakers have had relatively few public debates on it. Use this Tribune interactive to track the progress of bills related to abortion.
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Lege Divided on Abortion Finds Rare Harmony in Women’s Health Care
The political fireworks that accompanied lawmakers’ 2011 fight over women’s health care and abortion has been replaced with some semblance of concession, as legislators work quietly to restore financing.
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The Polling Center: Planned Parenthood and the Women’s Health “Equation”
The marginalization of Planned Parenthood probably makes the discussion of women’s health care less contentious — among Republicans, anyway.
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Health care
TribuneFest: The State of Women’s Health
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.
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For Budget Vote, House Had a Women’s Health Negotiator
One lawmaker is getting much of the credit for restoring family planning funding to the House budget without the usual floor fight: state Rep. Sarah Davis, R-West University Place.
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House Members Pulling Women’s Health Amendments
Amid Thursday’s budget debate in the House, some Democratic and Republican members of the House have agreed to pull some divisive amendments related to women’s health.
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Project Explores Effect of Family-Planning Cuts Across Texas
A new website and database released by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project explores the impact of cuts made in 2011 to state family-planning services, breaking down information on the county and district level.
