| Jul 9, 2013 | Environment / HealthWho should make medical decisions about pregnancies? Women? Their doctors? Their ministers? The macho Republican autocrats and theocrats who control the Texas state government say they are the ones to decide such deeply personal matters. How embarrassing for these...
| Jul 3, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyOvernight, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis became the face of the pro-choice movement in her state and the entire nation. When the Democrat from Fort Worth in pink running shoes filibustered for nearly 13 hours in the Texas Senate on the last day of its regular...
| Jun 19, 2013 | Environment / HealthGood news for advocates of sensible birth control policy: The Obama administration announced that it’s dropping the fight to impose an age restriction on sales of Plan B One-Step, the emergency contraception pill. Reproductive rights advocates are celebrating...
| May 1, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAbortion, condoms, Things that vex, Those who would Prohibit sex. Fewer American teens are getting pregnant and the national abortion rate is falling. Time to break out the champagne and the bananas flambé, right? But many religious zealots aren’t celebrating...
| Mar 13, 2013 | Environment / HealthIn 2009, an interim Texas school superintendent declared that sex-education classes were unnecessary in his rural district. Most of the area’s school kids live on farms, he explained, therefore: “They get a pretty good sex education from their...
