Abortion

Abort Mission

Miss Pop Rocks: Sarah Silverman Makes Abortion Hilarious!

Tunnel Mole Goes to the Polls

Westward Whoa!

Stem cell restrictions could send Texas Medical Center researchers fleeing to California

Crashing the Grand Old Party

Dolly McKenna is the GOP candidate for the 25th District. But will Republicans vote for her?

Abortion for Grins

Dolly McKenna is the GOP candidate for the 25th District. But will Republicans vote for her?

News Hostage

End of the Road

Under the Knife: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

One very bad day in Ceausescu's Romania

Unborn in the U.S.A.: Inside the War

Rice students tackle one side of America’s most controversial topic

Urban Theater Festival

Emerging playwrights take on hard-hitting topics

Pro-Choice Punch

Emerging playwrights take on hard-hitting topics

Changes in Attitude

When voters elected Martha Wong, they thought they were sending a moderate Republican to Austin. Critics say once there, she took a right turn. Now her district is rethinking its representation.

Letters to the Editor

When voters elected Martha Wong, they thought they were sending a moderate Republican to Austin. Critics say once there, she took a right turn. Now her district is rethinking its representation.

Back to the Future

Andrea Bowers presents life before Roe v. Wade

Stomped Out

A teenage mom-to-be decides she doesn't want her babies after all

Love It, Fear It

A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

Letters

A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

Letters

A Brit flourishes by studying Houston

Go, Baby, Go

Behind the barricades with the Pro-Life Cougars and their dead-fetus pictures

Dead Heat

Veteran Danburg tries to hang on against Wong in the new 134th District

Deliverance from China

Unmarried and pregnant, she knew her options in a land obsessed with population control: Abort or become an outcast. Lijun looked for another way out.

Poison Pen

Bryan antiabortionists use the mail - and the law - to escalate their attacks on clinic workers

Enron's Earth (Day) Quakes

Bryan antiabortionists use the mail - and the law - to escalate their attacks on clinic workers

Planned Parenthood Director Becomes an Anti-Abortionist Protester

​This just in from Bryan, TX: Abby Johnson, the very recently former director of Planned Parenthood in that city, is now a protester outside the facility. In an interview filmed by KBTX - TV, Channel 3, Johnson said she'd had a change of heart after viewing an ultrasound and can no longer sup ... More >>

Sub-Prime Beef

Readers give props for calling Obama to task.

The Tug of War

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a pitched battle over the soul of the GOP. They are also running for governor.

It's An "Abortion Super Center," And They're Gonna Protest It

​Planned Parenthood of Houston is moving into that office building on I-45near UH that looks like a cash register, and it looks like the protests will follow them.The Drudge Report is linking to a right-wing news service's story decrying the new building as an "abortion supercenter." Big protests ... More >>

A&M Assault Case and Abortion Super Center?

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

They Came, They Saw, They Protested....A Not-Yet-Opened Planned Parenthood Office

Photos by Paul Knight​The enormous crowd in the parking lot of the Catholic Charismatic Center, just south of downtown, began to thin out at about noon as people headed for the streets, or school buses, to make their way across I-45 to protest the opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic (it hasn't ... More >>

Boycott Houston, Because We Are So Depraved

Photo by Daniel Kramer​If you think the folks in Haiti are having a rough time, just wait until Houstonians feel the economic effects of Pastor David Grisham's boycott against our city of sin. Launched just a few days ago, www.boycotthouston.com is Grisham's way of giving righteous Texans a chance ... More >>

Depraved Houston, a jacked-up rodeo and Jennifer Aniston

Photo by Daniel Kramer​If you think the folks in Haiti are having a rough time, just wait until Houstonians feel the economic effects of Pastor David Grisham's boycott against our city of sin. Launched just a few days ago, www.boycotthouston.com is Grisham's way of giving righteous Texans a chance ... More >>

The Hot Seat: Pro-Choice, Pro-Flirting, Carolyn Rodriguez Is As Real As It Gets

​This past Monday was International Women's Day, and this week commemorates women and the issues that impact their lives. So it was probably important to get a woman in The Hot Seat. The first lady of Latino hip-hop, Carolyn Rodriguez, seemed like the perfect fit. Last time we saw Carolyn was at a ... More >>

Lilith Fair Returns To Houston; The Last Time Around Didn't Go Too Smoothly

​Hair Balls is clutching our pearls in anticipation of the official announcement from Lilith Fair headquarters on a date, venue and lineup for the festival's Houston show. (They've already announced they're coming here, just not when.) From 1997 to 1999 the festival's first incarnation made waves ... More >>

Preacher Joseph Herrin: Gulf Oil Spill The Fault Of All Us Abortion-Loving Houstonians

I'm looking at YOU, Houston​BREAKING -- A new, undeniably correct theory on why there's a huge oil spill has just been announced. There's a spill, it seems, because God hates how we Houstonians just love abortion. Oh, and Joel Osteen's to blame, too.The theory is proposed by a preacher (and, we as ... More >>

Lilith Fair's Top 5 Headline-Grabbing Moments

​Friday, while Rocks Off was enjoying a blissful if soggy day off, Lilith Fair canceled the final ten dates of this year's summer resurrection, including all three scheduled Texas stops. The news was hardly shocking: One headliner, Norah Jones, had already bailed, and The New York Times report ... More >>

Reliance Foundation: Controversial Billboards Come To Texas

The Reliance Foundation billboard​Perhaps because it would take up too much room to say "Honk if You Love Insane Conspiracy Theories," the new super-creepy billboards in Bryan simply show an African-American child under the terrifying slogan "Black & Unwanted." Welcome to life as viewed throu ... More >>

Abortion Wars: "40 Days For Life" Vs. Planned Parenthood Is Quiet So Far

Photos by Paula BeltránMostly quiet at the "abortion supercenter"​Depending on who you ask, 40 Days of Harassment or 40 Days For Life have been in full swing since September 22, with anti-choice groups gathering outside Planned Parenthood clinics to protest their abortion services all over the na ... More >>

Center of Debate

Planned Parenthood protest draws comments from readers.

Rick Perry's "Emergencies": An Agenda Set by Tea Party Talk Radio

Rick Perry: A Randolph Mantooth for our time​Another day, another Rick Perry "emergency": This time it's forcing women seeking abortions to have sonograms. You are forgiven if you are a Texas resident -- wondering how the hell the state is going to fund education, critical social services, hi ... More >>

Pro Life Group Uncovers Health Problems at Clinics

​Texas abortion clinics are plagued with health and administrative violations and have tons of gross medical waste, including fetal remains, in open trash bins outside their doors, according to the results of a three-month undercover study by Christian pro-life group Operation Rescue. The gro ... More >>

Planned Parenthood: Punched in the Uterus by Misguided Texas Senate

More bad news for women who rely on Planned Parenthood.​A Texas Senate subcommittee wrangled the vulvas of Texas women into a chokehold yesterday with its latest assault on Planned Parenthood. Republican Senator Robert Deuell, who is a physician, introduced a bill to a three-member subcommitte ... More >>

Voters to Representatives: Get Out Of My Uterus And Do Your Job

CFS? Yes. Reproductive rights? No.​On the day after the Texas Senate passed a bill requiring women to undergo mandatory transvaginal sonograms before getting an abortion, and on the same day the Lege passed a resolution celebrating Chicken Fried Steak Day (not kidding), the resounding call fro ... More >>

Sonogram Bill Signed: Three White Guys Sitting Around Talking

Sid Miller knows best.​Texas, you may now consider yourself even more safe when it comes to women abortin' babies just `cause they feel like it. Governor Rick Perry, in a big ceremonial show, signed into law the bill that mandates women seeking abortions must undergo sonograms. His official ... More >>

The Abortion Debate: Five Pro-Life Songs

internets_dairy via Wikipedia​In this time of great economic stress, high gas prices, mounting debt, and other sober financial concerns gripping the nation, it is only natural that many legislative debates across the nation are focused on abortion. And when we say it's only natural, we mean that ... More >>

The Abortion Debate Part 2: Five Pro-Choice Songs

radicalrags.com​Yesterday Rocks Off allowed five musicians to voice their opposition to legalized abortion in this country through song. Today, we allow rebuttal from the pro-choice camp in order to give everyone their say. As a note, a conversation between writer an editor brought up Ben Fol ... More >>

Fetuses In A Public Landfill: Not The Way It's Supposed To Happen

Just no​We all know that the souls of aborted babies go to live with Jesus, but what of their earthly remains? Well, in Texas, they legally can't be disposed of in landfills -- which is exactly where the remains from two abortion clinics have been going, according to Texas Commission on Enviro ... More >>

Too Much Pavement

Houston's strip malls increase heat, pollution.

Andre Johnson Doesn't Deny Knowing the Rogue Miami Booster

Andre Nevin on the right, trouble for Da U​In what has the potential to be the most explosive college football scandal since Eric Dickerson was pumping bass out of the speakers of his shiny new gold Trans-Am in the late '70s, a rogue University of Miami booster who doubles as a convicted felon ... More >>

Texas' Sonogram Law Gets New Lease on Life

The court gives a go-ahead​The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the temporary injunction on Texas' so-called sonogram law, clearing the way for abortion providers to enforce the new mandate. The law, championed by Sen. Dan Patrick, requires a sonogram whenever a woman seeks an abort ... More >>

In Midst of Komen Ruckus, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Has Rare Leadership Change

Melaney Linton: New head of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast​Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is not only one of the largest regional centers in the U.S., but it has been remarkably stable in its leadership. Peter J. Durkin has led the organization for 27 often-tumultuous years. And now, in the mi ... More >>