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Texas Pregnancy Care Network Proves Unimpressive
News Story April 18, 2008
by Jordan Smith
Description: Report shows Alternatives to Abortion program to be expensive, inefficient
"...Indeed, in order to qualify for the funding, grantees must pledge not to "promote, refer, or perform abortions" (even though it is already illegal to use public money to provide abortions). The kitty was eventually awarded to the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, a nonprofit that was created in August 2005 in order to take advantage of the newly created funding stream (by four individuals without any previous experience running a nonprofit entity)...."
Anti-Abortionists Want More Health-Care Money
News Story September 5, 2008
by Jordan Smith
Description: New threats to women's health care emerge in both Texas and D.C.
"...It does so, however, without providing any medical services whatsoever and yet has been funded by siphoning $5 million per biennium from the ever-dwindling pot shared by traditional providers of actual medical services – family planning and reproductive health services – for low-income women and others without other access to health care. Now HHSC has included in its biennial request additional funding for the Alternatives to Abortion program, which is administered by the group Texas Pregnancy Care Network – an outfit created in summer 2005 (presumably in response to the new funding opportunity created by Williams' rider) by three people without experience in either nonprofit administration or in women's health care – but with solid, all-important anti-choice credentials...."
Point Austin: The Lege Provides
News Column February 23, 2007
by Michael King
Description: "Alternatives" to health care
"...Smith's diligent reporting has had an effect at the Capitol, where House Appropriations Committee members, most prominently Austin Democrat Dawnna Dukes, questioned sharply the misuse of health-care money to fund counseling programs and expensive, barely operational programs at that. The Houston Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times picked up the story, and, stung by public exposure, the "alternatives" advocates at the Texas Pregnancy Care Network – who now, as then, dodge Smith's inquiries – attempted a stealth strike-back campaign about as effective as the rest of their work..."
No Real Alternative
News Story January 26, 2007
by Jordan Smith
Description: In the name of "promoting childbirth," the state finds yet another way to deny health care to thousands of Texas women
"...In March 2006, a year after initial passage, the HHSC finally signed its contract with the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, founded by three businessmen and one female assistant attorney general, who formed a nonprofit in August 2005, apparently in response to the new government-funding opportunity. Since that time, to date, the state has forked over more than $1.7 million in tax money to pay for "pregnancy services that promote childbirth." By contract, TPCN agreed to recruit individual service providers across the state, and documents indicate that TPCN identified more than 200 CPCs and maternity homes that could be brought into the Alternatives to Abortion program loop, whereby these subcontractors would provide counseling services to women for which they'd be reimbursed by TPCN...."
Naked City
News Story August 28, 2009
Description: News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
"...drum roll ... the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, the same agency that has been running the project since its 2006 start..."
Reproductive Health
News Story May 29, 2009
by Jordan Smith
Description: Funding for reproductive health is intact – as is an increased allotment to Alternatives to Abortion
"...Why the program needs the increase in funding isn't at all clear. The entity that administers the program, the Texas Pregnancy Care Network (which formed nearly four years ago to take advantage of the new funding opportunity), has been unable to spend the entire $2.5 million currently allocated to the program each year on actual services to clients..."
More Money to Promote Childbirth
News Blog May 19, 2009
by Jordan Smith
Description: Lawmakers want to give a 60% budget boost for "Alternative to Abortion" pet program
"...Why the program needs the increase in funding isn't at all clear. The entity that administers the program, the Texas Pregnancy Care Network (which formed nearly four years ago to take advantage of the new funding opportunity), has been unable to spend the entire $2.5 million currently allocated to the program each year on actual services to clients..."
Pregnant Pause
News Story February 27, 2009
by Jordan Smith
Description: Anti-abortion group is poised to siphon big chunk of indigent health-care funds
"...Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, as a way to "encourage" childbirth. Under the program, a pass-through entity, the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, contracts with the state to provide funds to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers," which are tasked with promoting childbirth and steering women away from abortion..."
Rick Perry Gets a Life
News Story December 26, 2008
by Jordan Smith
Description: Perry drives anti-abortion license plate proposal
"...The program, which he created via budget rider in 2005, earmarks health-care funds to "promote childbirth" – via counseling and "support," but not with real health care. The program is administered by the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, which provides funding for various CPCs around the state through a contract with the Health and Human Services Commission..."
'Alternatives' to Abortion Gets More Funding
News Story March 30, 2007
by Jordan Smith
"...Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, back in 2005 as a way to champion childbirth over abortion – in other words, a way to funnel taxpayer money away from traditional women's health care and into maternity homes and, more importantly, to so-called "crisis pregnancy centers," which offer no medical care whatsoever – and attached to the budget as a rider. The money went to the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, which administers the abortion alternatives program, which took in well over $1 million in public funds to serve a grand total of 11 clients statewide during FY 06...."
On the Lege: Budget Rollout
News Column March 30, 2007
by Amy Smith
Description: The budget battle begins at the Capitol
TPCN Flack Attack: No Nutritional Content
News Story February 23, 2007
by Jordan Smith
Description: Tax-funded anti-abortion group uses PR campaign to smear Chronicle, rather than truly responding to our story
"...On Feb. 13, The Austin Chronicle acquired a seven-page document, produced on Texas Pregnancy Care Network letterhead, recounting a host of complaints about our Jan..."
The 'Chronicle' Responds to TPCN
News Story February 23, 2007
by Michael King
Description: The TPCN complaints about Chronicle reporting are much ado about not very much.
"...The unsigned document submitted by the Texas Pregnancy Care Network to the Houston Chronicle purports to respond to a Jan. 26 Chronicle News feature by Jordan Smith, "No Real Alternative." Smith gives the history and responds to some of the specific charges in this week's issue (Feb..."
TPCN Strikes Back!
News Story February 23, 2007
by Jordan Smith
Description: The Texas Pregnancy Care Network didn't like our story – but couldn't bear to tell us.
"...The memo is printed on the letterhead of the Texas Pregnancy Care Network – the entity that administers the state's newly created "Alternatives to Abortion" program. However, we have been told that it actually originated with the office of Sen..."
Real Alternatives: The Pennsylvania Connection
News Story January 26, 2007
by Jordan Smith
Description: Texas' "abortion alternative" has roots in the Keystone State
"...Among the major expenses the Texas Pregnancy Care Network outlined in its Health and Human Services Commission contract for FY 06 was more than $200,000 associated with "deployment" and training on the client-tracking and billing service used by TPCN's mentor, the Pennsylvania-based Real Alternatives, which has run Pennsylvania's abortion-alternatives program for more than a decade. In fact, it seems likely that TPCN's principals – among them an oil- and gas-man and a NASA scientist, but no one with any nonprofit or health-care service experience – would not have been able to secure the Texas Alternatives to Abortion contract had they not linked themselves to RA..."
TPCN: Ask Us No Questions
News Story January 26, 2007
by Jordan Smith
Description: An organization funded entirely by tax dollars insists it is a "private business" free from public scrutiny
"...I visited, called, and wrote the Texas Pregnancy Care Network in an attempt to determine the nature and cost of its entirely state-funded programs and in particular to review the "educational" materials, purchased with state funds, that it intends to provide pregnant clients. I was turned away at TPCN's locked door..."
Abortion Alternatives, by the Numbers
News Story January 26, 2007
Description: A financial comparison of TPCN and more traditional women's health care providers
"...Texas Pregnancy Care NetworkFiscal Year 2006, partial (March 16-Aug. 31)..."
Pregnant? Need Help? Don't Call Us.
News Story August 4, 2006
by Jordan Smith
"...Since Texas Pregnancy Care Network counseling materials have not yet been released, the Chronicle decided to make a few calls to see what kind of information area "crisis pregnancy centers" are currently providing. We recruited a local woman, who agreed to pose as a scared, confused, and pregnant 17-year-old, and listened in on her calls as she sought help and advice..."
Having Your Baby
News Story August 4, 2006
by Jordan Smith
Description: The anti-choice "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" are spending taxpayer funds on misinformation, scare tactics – or nothing
"...On Aug. 6, the alternatives-to-abortion services program will officially begin its statewide mission of "promoting childbirth." At the helm is the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, which formed last summer in response to the new funding opportunity and won Health and Human Services Commission approval to administer the multimillion-dollar contract..."
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