Women's Health

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.

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.

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. …

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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? …

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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.

By Hannah Smothers

August 13, 2014

The Compassionate Social Conservative

Kyleen Wright explains why HB 2 is good for women.

By Erica Grieder

February 11, 2014

A Long and Bitter Fight

How the debate over abortion has come to define our politics like no other issue.

By Brian D. Sweany

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.

By Joseph Misulonas

January 21, 2013

The Ascendant Abortion-Alternative Industry

Crisis pregnancy centers served 17,527 clients last year, and that number will likely only grow.

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. …

By Jason Cohen

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. …

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.

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. …

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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? …

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.

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.

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.

By Jason Cohen

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. …

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? …

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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. …

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November 7, 2012

Where Things Stand with the Women’s Health Program

The confusing legislation and litigation, untangled. …

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.

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.

By Mimi Swartz

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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.