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Taxpayers Fund Post-‘Roe’ Business Boom for Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers in Texas

Today, there’s big money to be made in the business of using unpaid, often church-sourced, volunteers to provide minimal services.

by Andrea Grimes

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by Andrea Grimes

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by Andrea Grimes

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by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

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House to Debate Women’s Health Funding

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

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Budget Rider Nearly Doubles Funding for Alternatives to Abortion Program

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Perry’s “Fetal Pain” Bill Probably Wouldn’t Prevent Fetal Pain, Would Close Abortion Clinics

by Jo DePrang

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Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)

Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in your state? Come to Texas and see how it works out in practice.

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Pregnant? Scared? Can They Help?

The rise of crisis pregnancy centers and the abortion-alternative industry in Texas.

by Carolyn Jones

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