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Poll: Texans Support Family Planning And Access To Birth Control
Mark Corcoran - February 19, 2013
A new statewide poll released today by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund shows broad support in Texas for state-funded family planning services and women's access to birth control. Check out our blog post for the latest numbers and figures. Read More >>
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Fetuses as evidence?
New Mexico Bill Would Criminalize Abortions After Rape As 'Tampering With Evidence'
Lesli-Elsie Simms - January 26. 2012
On Wednesday, Republican (surprise!) state Representative Cathrynn Brown (actually, a surprise) introduced House Bill 206 that would “legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial." Read More >>
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Obama and Nixon: A Historical Perspective
For once with good reason, the GOP is exorcised with the scandals involving the IRS targeting political groups and the FBI's spying on A.P. reporters. The broader public is legitimately concerned. However, in its classic overblown breathlessness at all things Obama, the gleeful Republican leadership is already calling for impeachment and dragging... Read More »
Nonconservative Groups Say IRS Scrutinized Them, Too
The IRS was in the hot seat Friday, with its outgoing acting commissioner . A Senate panel is scheduled for Tuesday. Congress is prodding to find out why the agency singled out conservative groups for special scrutiny. Attention has focused on the IRS' flagging of these groups starting in 2010. But some liberal groups and journalism organizations... Read More »
Tea Party Not Singled Out by IRS
(TEXAS) - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is conducting a hearing on the IRS scrutinizing 501(c)4s, and several times during the hearing there was correct push-back and clarification that progressive groups were scrutinized, as well. Two-thirds of those groups that received extra scrutiny from the IRS were not conservative. By point of... Read More »