Last week, the Texas Health & Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs, Gov. Rick Perry, and Attorney General Greg Abbott all stood tall against Planned Parenthood and the Obama administration on the issue of use of taxpayer funds for the Woman’s Health Program (WHP) in Texas by abortion providers. As a result of legislation passed in [...]
Thursday, January 12, 2012
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/January/Texas-Can-Enforce-Sonogram-Viewing-Law-for-Now/ By the way, big thanks goes to Attorney General Greg Abbott and Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell for doing an excellent job defending the Texas Sonogram law!!
Monday, August 15, 2011
Late last week, board members of Central Health (formerly Travis County Healthcare District) voted unanimously to end using $450,000 of taxpayer money annually to fund abortion. Travis County was the first Texas county to use taxpayer money for abortion, which it distributed to abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood. During the Texas Legislative Session, Liberty Institute [...]
Friday, August 5, 2011
Today, on behalf of Texas Senator Dan Patrick and Texas Representative Sid Miller, Liberty Institute filed an amicus brief in the lawsuit seeking to strike down Texas’ new sonogram law (HB 15). Senator Patrick and Representative Miller were the authors of HB 15 in the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives, respectively. Liberty Institute [...]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
HB 561 was heard in House State Affairs last night. We testified in favor of this bill. See Rep. Christian’s statement on this issue.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
SB 257 passes the full Texas Senate, 21-10. We’ve been supporting this bill in the Senate and House.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Sonogram bill being referred back to State Affairs, back to Calendars, and then on the floor again tomorrow morning at 10 am. Still time to call your Representative. Point of order raised and overruled. Another point of order raised. Rep. Jessica Farrar speaking against the bill. Rep. Sid Miller has laid out his sonogram bill, H.B. [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Click here to Donate to our work TODAY! (President of Free Market Foundation shown above as legal counsel for Hannah Giles, who helping take down ACORN.) As you know, we, at Free Market Foundation/Liberty Legal Institute, are a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. We are funded solely by private donations. We could not do the work we [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
December 11, 2009 First, thank you to all the hardwork by so many people. You made your voice heard and stood up for what it is right. This has so much value. Please make sure you are signed up to our blog RSS feed (upper right corner) and our email so you can stay up [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) has released a statement opposing the Senate version of the Government Takeover of healthcare. Click here for their release. http://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=8201 Quorum Report is reporting that Democrat State Representative, Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), is criticizing the TMA’s position. The QR piece says that the Obama Whitehouse asked Rep. Coleman to a be a pointman [...]
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