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Texas Principal Cancels Cosmetology Class To Keep Male Student Out

Jessica WakemanSeptember 17, 2012 //
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  • The principal of a school district in Texas briefly cancelled an adult education cosmetology course after a male student, whom the principal perceived to be gay, signed up for the class. The teacher of the class says that really sucks for everyone else, because oftentimes the students who take her cosmetology class are single mothers trying to learn a valuable and flexible skill. The school district then rescheduled the class after the bad press drew attention to it.  Oh, Texas.   [Queerty]
  • Hide the children! “I am not a witch” Tea Party star Christine O’Donnell is considering a 2014 Senate run. [Raw Story]
  • Can black women lead on rethinking marriage? [On The Issues] Keep reading »

It’s Time To Cry: Teen Girl Murdered Before She Could Testify Against Her Rapist

Jessica WakemanSeptember 15, 2012 //
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More than half of all sexual assaults are never reported to the police and 97 percent of rapists will never spend a day in jail. These statistics from the Rape Abuse & Incest National Network are horrifying — but they also remind us how incredible 16-year-old Shania Gray of Texas was. The high school junior reported her alleged statutory rape to police and was scheduled to go to trial next month to try and put her alleged rapist, Franklin B. Davis behind bars.

Tragically, Shania was murdered by Davis before she ever had a chance to testify against him. Keep reading »

A Look At Just How Difficult It Is To Get A Pap Smear In Texas

Daley QuinnSeptember 7, 2012 //
TX Cuts PP Funds
Texas to cut off funding for poor women's health care at PP clinics. Read More »
Boos Over Birth Control
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What's a girl gotta do to get a pap smear in this state?
  • In the video above, RH Reality Check Texas reporter Andrea Grimes — the same Andrea Grimes who writes our “Hitched” column every week! — calls dozens of Texas-funded Women’s Health Program providers in search of a pap smear. The program has excluded Planned Parenthood as a provider, and Andrea discovers the drastically few places that will provide her with a women’s health exam within her area. Keep reading »

Texas To Cut Off Funding For Poor Women’s Health Care At Planned Parenthood

Daley QuinnAugust 22, 2012 //
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A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Texas is now allowed to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics that participate in Texas’ Women’s Health Program. Planned Parenthood performs abortions, which the state opposes, and therefore they are allowed to defund the clinics.

The program helps roughly 130,00 low-income women with health care; it aids women who would not qualify for Medicaid unless they are pregnant. The WHP has always funded Planned Parenthood clinics in the past; its mandate is not to fund “abortion-providing entities” and Planned Parenthood got around that by creating a separate legal entity to accept the funds to use for non-abortion health care. The state knew that and funded the clinics anyway. But then the state of Texas decided it was more de riguer and keeping with the times to defund Planned Parenthood over all this. It rewrote language saying WHP funding couldn’t even go to abortion-providing affiliates. Keep reading »

Texas Wants To Ban Doctors From Even Talking About Abortion

Jessica WakemanJuly 11, 2012 //
  • Yes, seriously: Texas wants to ban doctors from even talking about — or as Texas puts it, “promoting” — abortion as an option.  Some people really believe ignorance is a good thing, huh? [Dallas Observer]
  • Mississippi’s only abortion clinic will be kept open longer that originally thought after a judge has extended a block on a law that aimed to close it July 1. [CNN; BBC]
  • Jane Lynch and Billie Jean King are supporting LPAC, a lesbian super-PAC that will provide financial packing to lesbian political candidates. [Huffington Post]
  • The Green Party’s nominee Jill Stein has revealed her running mate will be Cheri Honkala, a homeless activist with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. [Time]
  • A pregnant lesbian and her girlfriend were asked to leave a Kentucky park because they were kissing. [Queerty]
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Houston’s $5 “Pole Tax” Rubs Strip Clubs The Wrong Way (Ha, Ha)

Jessica WakemanJune 29, 2012 //
Celebrity Poledancers
Emma Watson learned how for her role in "The Bling Ring." Read More »
Why Men Love Strippers
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Strip clubs in the fair city of Houston, Texas, will soon be hit with an interesting new tax: a $5-per-visitor tax which will go towards paying for a backlog of the city’s 6,000 rape kits. The Houston City Council passed an ordinance on Wednesday which will require almost 30 gentleman’s clubs to fork over the funds, which will then be used to pay for analyzing DNA evidence collected from rape victims. Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Judge Rules Texas Can’t Withhold Funding From Planned Parenthood

Jessica WakemanApril 30, 2012 //
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  • A federal judge ruled today that a new Texas law banning Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds through its Women’s Health Program — so targeted because it provides abortion services in addition to cancer screenings, etc. — is unconstitutional. In his ruling, the judge noted, “The court is particularly influenced by the potential for immediate loss of access to necessary medical services by several thousand Texas women.” An injunction will be applied against the law until further notice. [CBS News]
  • Author Toni Morrison, a Nobel Prize and Pulitizer Prize winner, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year. Other lady recipients include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the late Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Low, and NCAA women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt. [The Root]
  • Conservative talking head Michelle Malkin just had to tweet some nastiness after Meghan McCain and Sandra Fluke bonded this weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner over being called “sluts.” [Media Matters For America] Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Texas Teacher Fired For Unwed Pregnancy

Jessica WakemanApril 11, 2012 //
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  • Cathy Samford, a teacher and coach at a private Christian school in Rockwell, Texas, was fired for getting pregnant out of wedlock. Samford, who is 29, tells ABC News she is in a committed relationship and planning to get married this summer. But Heritage Christian Academy still didn’t think this slutty slut slut was a good “Christian role model” and fired her — even refusing to keep her on staff if she and her fiancé married sooner. [ABC News]
  • How much will President Obama’s massive lead in the polls with women actually help him in November? [The Week]
  • Not surprisingly, Mitt Romney’s camp is now focused on winning over women. [CBS News] Keep reading »

Butthurt Theater Prof Sues School Over Gay-Themed Performances

Tiffanie DraytonApril 6, 2012 //
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Today in Call Me A Waaaah-mbulance News: Texas theater professor Linda Ozmun is suing her employer for citing her in an annual review for refusing to attend a gay-themed show performed by students back in 2010. Ozmun claims she refused to attend for religious reasons, but Lamar University wrote on her annual review in 2011 that not going to the students’ performance was “unacceptable.” Lamar also brought a performer to campus to perform a show and workshop dealing with subjects around homosexuality and Ozmun asked to be recused from attending; the school threatened her with disciplinary action if she did not go.   Keep reading »

Whoa, Check Out “Texas Observer”‘s Provocative Cover On Anti-Abortion Politics

Jessica WakemanMarch 30, 2012 //
Forced Ultrasounds
Women in Texas seeking abortions are forced to have an ultrasound. Read More »
One Woman's Ordeal
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One woman describes her ordeal with the Texas forced ultrasound law. Read More »
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This author says her abortion was the best decision of her life. Read More »
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Tell us what you really think, Texas Observer. This is the magazine’s April 2012 cover: a provocative rebuke to Texas’ forced ultrasound law for women seeking an abortion and just who (faceless, white males) is behind it. I think it’s incredible. Thoughts? [TexasObserver.org]

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