Last Tuesday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry stopped by to lend a little good-old-boy masculinity to the opening of a branch of Houston’s The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center […]
Author: Andrea Grimes
Good Luck Finding Low-Cost Healthcare in Texas Without Planned Parenthood
While the State of Texas battles in court for what it says is its right to exclude Planned Parenthood from participating in the Medicaid Women’s Health Program (WHP) there, the Texas Health […]
The Day Texas Women Almost Restored Planned Parenthood Funding
Update: The following Friday, May 3, Planned Parenthood was refunded again, after a three-judge circuit of appeals ruled that Texas must continue to fund the organization while its defunding decision […]
The Latest Threat to Health Care
By Andrea Grimes Elected officials often talk about “mandates” from their constituents. But what happens when those mandates aren’t coming from voters but corporate representatives who pay top dollar to […]
Houston Press Lists Ten “Hottest” Sex Offenders
If I were the Houston Press, and I were part of the Village Voice Media chain of newspapers currently under investigation for facilitating sex trafficking through their Backpage.com outlet, making […]
Alternatives to Planned Parenthood? Not in Texas
The House and Senate are expected to vote on Thursday on stand-alone bills that take away all federal funds from Planned Parenthood. Without Planned Parenthood, alternatives for women are lacking, […]
Did The New York Times Blame the 11-Year-Old Victim of a Texas Gang Rape?
There is so much that is horrid with regard to this story coming out of small-town East Texas: 18 men and teenage boys have been arrested in the gang rape of […]