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Planned Parenthood’s Downtown Clinic
Saturday, September 26 at 10:00am - Get Yourself Tested at the Dow...
Downtown Teen Clinic
Monday, April 20 at 3:00pm - Lobby Day 2009 with PPFA Presi...
Texas State Capitol Building
Thursday, March 12 at 10:30am - February Volunteer Night
Planned Parenthood Administrative O...
Thursday, February 26 at 5:30pm - Volunteer Appreciation Party
Speakeasy Lounge
Tuesday, February 10 at 5:00pm - Talk First! Parent Program Launch
Planned Parenthood
Friday, January 16 at 10:00pm - Health Holiday Teen Party!
Downtown Austin Clinic
Thursday, December 18 at 2:00pm - November Volunteer Night
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Thursday, November 20 at 5:30pm - November Volunteer Orientation...
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Thursday, November 6 at 6:00pm - November Volunteer Orientation...
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Thursday, November 6 at 10:00am
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Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Check out this article about vasectomy, the most effective form of birth control for men. Then visit our homepage to learn about our referrals for low-cost vasectomies (www.ppaustin.org).
www.rhrealitycheck.org
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region This should be required reading for every journalist. Let's start asking these questions of our candidates.
johnyoungcolumn.blogspot.com
You know a Republican primary is approaching when, like leaves falling in the wind, candidates drop nuanced positions on reproductive rights and lie prostrate before blustery anti-choice absolutists.
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Ah, the hypocrisy. You've got to read this analysis of how the RNC was "caught" covering abortion services for its employees, and how it still indirectly subsidizes abortions by its own definition.
tinyurl.com
Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Stop Stupak! Sign the petition.
www.ppaction.org
We are Americans who are concerned about the health of the women of the United States, and we applaud your efforts to ensure affordable, quality health care coverage for all. We call upon you to use the ...
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region And now a poll from US News & World Report. Vote "no" to show that Americans who want to take health care benefits away from women are in the minority.
www.usnews.com
The House bans abortion coverage in basic plans in the healthcare exchange--and the public option.
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Politico is running a poll on the Stupak amendment. Vote "disapprove" to show that you support reproductive health care coverage.
www.politico.com
POLITICO's Arena is a cross-party, cross-discipline daily conversation about politics and policy among more than a hundred current and former members of Congress, governors, mayors, political strategists and scholars.
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region When the health care reform bill passed the House on Saturday, it included the Stupak/Pitts amendment, which bans private abortion coverage for millions of women and would prohibit it in the new "public option." Tell President Obama that you won't accept any "reform" that leaves women worse off than they are now.
www.ppaction.org
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Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Get to know your condoms! This report gives you the lowdown on which brands are most reliable.
blogs.consumerreports.org
I get a lot of interesting reactions when I tell friends I’m covering our tests of condoms. Their excitement wanes a little when I say we don’t test condoms by personally trying them out. But they tend ...
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Good news: EBay has blocked the efforts of anti-choice activists to hold an auction in order to raise money for Scott Roeder's defense. One of the items that was set to be auctioned was a prison cookbook compiled by the woman who shot and wounded Dr. Tiller in 1993.
www.latimes.com
Kansas City, Mo. - Online retailer EBay said Tuesday that it would block an auction planned to raise money for the man charged with killing Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller. Supporters had said they wanted to raise money to pay for Scott Roeder's defense. ...
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region We'll be hosting and participating in some fun events this November. Check out this list.
www.plannedparenthood.org
For more information about any events, please contact Elizabeth Paukstis at 512.276.8076 or email elizabeth.paukstis@ppaustin.org.
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Today is National Health Care Reform Day of Action. Tell your senators to protect women's health.
www.ppaction.org
Anti-choice extremists are trying to hijack health care reform to undermine women's access to care. People like you and me need to speak up now and make it clear to Congress that we won't stand by while protections for women's health are cut out of health care reform. ...
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Here's another reason why women's health should be front and center in the health care debate. In the insurance industry, discriminating against women is just business as usual.
act.ly
Insurance companies discriminate against women in several ways and it’s time to tell Congress
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region
More proof of the dire state of health care in Texas. We rank dead last in terms of access to health care and in equity – a measure of how minorities and low-income patients fare in the state's medical system. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/
Texas health care ranked 46th in nation | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Texas Regio
www.dallasnews.com
Texas News - The Dallas Morning News Texas section is your trusted source for news from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region
Oklahoma's scary new abortion law is remarkably similar to legislation that is routinely proposed in the TX State Legislature. Under the law, patients seeking abortion would be forced to submit their private details to the state for online publication. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feat
www.salon.com
A new Oklahoma law requires the posting of private data on a public Web site
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region
Since they receive so much state funding, isn't it time that crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) were at least honest about the services that they do and do not provide? Can the Austin City Council take a cue from the Baltimore City Council, and require CPCs to disclose that they do not provide contraceptive services or re...ferrals? http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2009/
www.rhrealitycheck.org
Crisis pregnancy centers spread misinformation about abortion and birth control in an effort to dissuade women from exploring those options. The Baltimore City Council wants to change that.
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