Health
December 21, 2016
This Year in Abortion Access in Texas
Much has happened this year—and there may be more to come.
Women's Health
The Daily Post
October 19, 2015
Can Texas Really Cut Funding To Planned Parenthood?
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has declared that it’ll no longer process reimbursements to the non-profit.
The Daily Post
September 16, 2015
An Undocumented Harris County Woman Faced Deportation After Being Arrested At Her OB-GYN
According to Blanca Borrego's family, she was taken into an exam room where sheriff's deputies were waiting for her.
Politics & Policy
June 29, 2015
U.S. Supreme Court Issues Stay on HB2, Setting Up a Major Abortion Decision in the Near Future
The United States Supreme Court issued a stay preventing Texas from implementing the omnibus abortion bill HB2 on Monday afternoon. This sets up the court’s biggest abortion ruling in a generation.
Health
March 3, 2015
Saginaw ISD Placed an Assistant Principal on Leave for Experiencing Uterine Bleeding
The school district claimed in a letter that they believed that the bleeding incidents were caused by “severe anxiety;” the woman and her doctor have documentation showing that it was an emergency stemming from a problem with her IUD. But should it even matter what exactly caused her medical emergency?
Health
January 13, 2015
Texas Got an F- on the Reproductive Health Report Card
The Population Institute’s annual report card has been posted, and Texas failed in a big way.
Politics & Policy
August 13, 2014
The Compassionate Social Conservative
Kyleen Wright explains why HB 2 is good for women.
Politics & Policy
February 11, 2014
A Long and Bitter Fight
How the debate over abortion has come to define our politics like no other issue.
The Daily Post
November 19, 2013
Comedians Raise $50,000 in Online Pro-Choice Telethon For Texas Women
Sarah Silverman, Lizz Winstead, and several female comedians joined forces to raise money for women affected by Texas's recently instituted abortion restrictions.
January 21, 2013
The Ascendant Abortion-Alternative Industry
Crisis pregnancy centers served 17,527 clients last year, and that number will likely only grow.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
“Fetal Pain”: The First Thing on Rick Perry’s Desk?
The Governor will hold a press conference with Texas Right to Life in Houston today to personally offer his support for more restrictions on abortion in the state.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Cecile Richards Stumps for Women’s Health Care at DNC
The president of Planned Parenthood and daughter of Texas Governor Ann Richards drew forty seconds of sustained applause when she mentioned her late mother.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Planned Parenthood Excluded from Women’s Health Program Until Trial
After several legal twists, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that Texas can now block Planned Parenthood from its Women’s Health Program.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Sixty Women’s Health Clinics Shuttered After Cuts
The state legislature slashed women's health funding by two thirds last session in an attempt to target Planned Parenthood. Now, a total of sixty clinics have closed, and only twelve of them were run by that organization.
Health
January 21, 2013
Big Changes Shake Up Komen
Chief executive Nancy Brinker announced she will step down from her position in the company, but is it too little too late?
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Another Tumultuous Week for Planned Parenthood
Texas can now exclude Planned Parenthood from its Women's Health Program, after an appeals court judge reversed a lower court's injunction.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Hutchison Criticizes Perry over Women’s Health Program Decision
Texas's senior Senator pushed for Rick Perry and the Obama Administration to work out their differences to ensure the Women’s Health Program can serve low-income women.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Who Firebombed Wendy Davis’s Office?
Update: Fort Worth police have arrested a 40 year-old homeless man for arson in Tuesday's firebombing of the Democratic state senator's Fort Worth office.
January 21, 2013
Perry’s Facebook Page Gets the Cramps
Thousands of women angry over cuts to women's health care in Texas expressed their outrage on Rick Perry's Facebook page.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
The Morning After Women’s Health Reform
A new state rule that bars Planned Parenthood clinics from being part of the Texas Women's Health Program took effect yesterday. So what does that mean for the program's future?
Health
January 21, 2013
‘Doonesbury’ Tackles the Texas Sonogram Law
Doonesbury takes on the controversial sonogram law this week, devoting six pen-and-ink comic strips to the legislation, but several newspapers around the country are boycotting the strip.
Health
November 7, 2012
Where Things Stand with the Women’s Health Program
The confusing legislation and litigation, untangled.
News & Politics
November 1, 2012
The State of Women’s Health in Texas
For more than a year a feud has been brewing between the state of Texas and Planned Parenthood over coverage for the Women’s Health Program.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 2012
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives
Read this National Magazine Award-winning story about how the Legislature slashed funding for women’s health programs in 2011 and launched an all-out war on Planned Parenthood that has dramatically changed the state’s priorities. The battle continues raging, and the stakes could not be higher.
Health
March 9, 2012
War Against Women’s Health Care Strikes Close to Home
A combination of steep cuts to women’s health care and an impasse over federal Title X funds threatens to leave some 400,000 low income Texas women without access to cancer screenings and contraceptives.
Health
August 6, 1995
Silicone City
From invention to litigation, the breast implant has done more for Houston’s economy—and its psyche—than anything since oil.