Despite ample amounts of research and statistics proving that higher rates of teen pregnancies occur when there’s a lack of comprehensive sex education, Texas and other states still push abstinence-only education while also making contraception less accessible. The University of Florida-Pensacola conducted a study examining the number of nationwide births by females ages 15 to 19 […]
Donald Trump offered to destroy the career of a senator who proposed a bill he didn’t like. On Tuesday morning, Donald Trump met with U.S. Sheriffs. Rockwall County, Texas Sheriff Harold Eavenson told Trump about a state senator who introduced a bill which would limit state’s laws on asset forfeiture. Trump responded with, “Who is the state senator? […]
On Monday, July 25th, 2016, the state of Texas passed legislation which will make it easier for undocumented workers to get birth certificates for their United States born children. The state agreed to do this by allowing more documentation options that these parents can more readily access, making it easier for their children to […]
Yet another Republican lawmaker is engaging in victim blaming and has suggested the “best chance” to avoid sexual assault is for women to stay sober. Texas State Rep. Myra Crownover (R-Denton), in a Higher Education committee regarding sexual assault on college campuses, told her colleagues: “I was listening for mention of drug or alcohol abuse and, […]
There’s a man with a gun over there telling me I got to beware. Last Thursday seven Deputy U.S. Marshals dressed in combat gear with automatic weapons showed up at the door of a Houston man and arrested him for failing to pay a student loan debt from 1987 totaling $1,500. Paul Aker told Fox […]