From 'Abstinence-Only' to Plan Z

Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent

"...up in Houston, money was tight for Tiffany Vo's family. The now 21-year-old's mother was the family's breadwinner, and..."

Oct. 11, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

From 'Abstinence-Only' to Plan Z

Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent

"...up in Houston, money was tight for Tiffany Vo's family. The now 21-year-old's mother was the family's breadwinner, and..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

State Blackmail on Health Care Funds?

Texas may force providers to choose between Title X and state health care funds

"...Fran Hagerty is CEO of the Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas, which earlier this year won..."

June 28, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Will Texas Do Better?

Federal funding to the WHP is set to stop Dec. 31

"...At the end of the April Fool's Day 2011 family planning budget slash-and-burn, the roughly $100 million biennial budget..."

Dec. 7, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Targeting Planned Parenthood, State Hurts Texas Women

Small fraction of women in need will get services

"...the Legislature's draconian cuts last spring to the state's family planning budget. The Department of State Health Services estimates..."

Jan. 18, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

New Assaults in War on Women's Health Care

New rule places stranglehold on Planned Parenthood

"...to reduce the number of Medicaid-paid births by providing family-planning and preventative health services to those women. This is..."

June 17, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Heidi Group Heave-Hoed

State finally kicks incompetent anti-choice health provider to the curb

"...low-income women in the Healthy Texas Women and state family planning programs. In 2017, the group, which had no..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Ken Paxton Lies in Letter on Women's Health

"...the Obama administration granted the $6.5 million in federal family planning funds to a nonprofit, the Women's Health and..."

March 30, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...projects without a public vote – moreover, a metropolitan planning organization would be forbidden even to include a federally..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Women's Health Care Access in Steady Decline

Health Commission numbers confirm decline in Texas women's care

"...and Human Ser­vices Commission had processed 79,663 claims for family planning and reproductive health services provided under the TWHP..."

Aug. 9, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Planned Parenthood Out, But Docs Can Still Discuss Abortion in New Texas Women's Health Program

HHSC relaxes abortion gag rule

"...or the participation of the state's largest network of family planning clinics...."

Oct. 19, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Abbott vs. Women

Texas attorney general challenges fed decision in funding flap over women’s health care

"...uninsured women who have access to basic preventative and family-planning care, as well as to reduce the number of..."

March 23, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Worst Fears Confirmed for Women's Health

Family planning providers formally told they've lost funding

"...news is not good: As predicted, a host of family-planning providers have lost funding as a result of state..."

Sept. 2, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Anti-Abortionists Want More Health-Care Money

New threats to women's health care emerge in both Texas and D.C.

"...shared by traditional providers of actual medical services – family planning and reproductive health services – for low-income women..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Proceed With Caution

Sunset Commission looks to combine five health care agencies into one

"...Services, State Health Services, Assistive and Rehabilitative Services, and Family and Protective Services be consolidated under the umbrella of..."

Nov. 21, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Lege Lines: The Score

Grading the Lege on women's health, drug policy, and criminal justice

"...Lawmakers also sought to restore funding for family planning and basic women's health care that had been..."

May 31, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

No Real Alternative

In the name of "promoting childbirth," the state finds yet another way to deny health care to thousands of Texas women

"...over the biennium from the state's $54 million annual family-planning budget – the bulk of which is federal money..."

Jan. 26, 2007 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Opinion: No Home Sweet HOME for Austin’s Black and Latino Communities

A member of the Planning Commission argues that Austin’s proposed new land use plan would result in another major forced relocation of Austin’s Latino community and its dwindling Black community

"...As a new appointee to the Planning Commission and as an African American mother who suffered..."

Dec. 8, 2023 Column by Alberta Phillips

Trump Administration Validates Texas' Anti-Choice Policies

State rewarded for booting Planned Parenthood from Medicaid program

"...in partnership with the federal government to provide meaningful family planning and health services while fostering a culture of..."

Jan. 22, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Abortion Gag Rule Could Jeopardize Local Care

More than 6,000 Austinites rely on Title X funds

"...of Health and Human Services announced it would ban family planning funds under Title X from providers that are..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

What Now? What Next?

With clinics already closing, Texas' extreme abortion restrictions head to the courts

"...clinics and sees more than 15,000 women annually for family planning, reproductive health, and abortion care services...."

July 26, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Are Women Being Served?

Preliminary numbers say Texas WHP is doing fine

"...a good sign that women still have access to family planning services through the state program."..."

March 19, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

When You Say 'Planned Parenthood' You Say 'Abortion,' Court Rules

State may regulate speech in Women's Health Program

"...designed to provide preventive and reproductive health care and family-planning services to low income and uninsured women that would..."

Aug. 22, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Courting Change

Travis County needs a new civil and family courthouse – and a new way of doing business

"...over large-scale projects and its habitual lack of adequate planning, the circumstances that face county officials are daunting. But,..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Report: WHP Planned Parenthood Ban Puts Patients in Jeopardy

GWU report questions HHSC analysis of ban

"...impossible, particularly given the simultaneous and steep loss in family planning grant funding experienced by health centers along with..."

May 3, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Perry Continues Assault on Women's Health Care

Perry ends the WHP and blames it on the feds

"...budget that in 2011 provided preventative health care and family planning to roughly 214,000 women, Perry now says he..."

March 16, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Is the Women's Health Program Dead?

Feds won't agree to exclude PP

"...unless pregnant, an opportunity to receive preventative health and family planning care. The program, devised by lawmakers in 2005,..."

Dec. 13, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Women's Health Program Saves Money

But the war on women's health continues

"...remains to be seen: Severe cuts to the state's family planning program threaten to shutter clinics around the state;..."

Aug. 23, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

LegeLand: Defunding Planned Parenthood

Abbott clears path to undermining Planned Parenthood

"...of Title X funding, the main federal source of family-planning funds. In that case, the short answer was: No,..."

Feb. 25, 2011 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Low-Income Women Could Take a Hit

Budget rider targets Planned Parenthood

"...At press time, family-planning advocates are decrying a new Senate budget rider that..."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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