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September 11, 2014
Everything You Need to Know About Friday's Court Hearing on Texas' Abortion Law
It's September 11, and the harshest restriction in Texas' new abortion law, its requirement that all abortions take place at an ambulatory surgical center, has yet to go into effect. HB2 was supposed to become the law of Texas on September 1, and the ACS rule would have immediately shuttered all bu ... More >>
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September 4, 2014
Planned Parenthood's New HB2-Proofed Clinic Opens in Southern Dallas
It's a nice clinic, it really is. With more space and amenities, it's a credit to the private donors who payed for it and continue to fuel Planned Parenthood's response to the Texas Legislature's crackdown on abortion. It's just unnecessary. The large janitor's closet, the backup generator, the loc ... More >>
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July 25, 2014
How Texas' New Abortion Restrictions Have Actually Impacted Access to the Procedure
The number of abortions being performed in Texas has dropped moderately, clinics offering abortions are vanishing rapidly and women seeking abortions must travel much farther to get an abortion, according to almost 18 months of data compiled by researchers looking at the effects of Texas' passage of ... More >>
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July 15, 2014
Planned Parenthood Will Open a New Dallas Abortion Clinic to Clear Texas' New Hurdles
Planned Parenthood plans to open a new clinic in southern Dallas that will meet the stringent requirements imposed on abortion providers by the state of Texas, ensuring that Dallas has at least one clinic that can perform abortions under the new rules. The regulations, which were passed in the Wend ... More >>
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December 12, 2013
Dar Williams on Planned Parenthood, Raising Children and Connecting With Your Community
Once described as one of America's best singer/songwriters, Dar Williams has spent the better part of three decades living up to the accolades. A writer of intensely personal songs, Williams has just kept getting better and better and the evidence is on her last effort, 2012's In the Time of the God ... More >>
Blogs
November 20, 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court Upheld a Key Part of Texas' Abortion Law, but Not without Rancor
When the ACLU, Planned Parenthood and more than a dozen health care providers took Attorney General Greg Abbott to court in September to challenge Texas' new anti-abortion law, they weren't trying to tackle the entire law. Instead, they narrowed in on a few key provisions that were supposed to take ... More >>
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November 4, 2013
Texas' Abortion Law is Headed to the U.S. Supreme Court
The aftermath of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling last week reinstating the requirement that doctors performing abortions in Texas have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic was swift and sweeping. By the next morning, a third of the state's abortion clinics had ... More >>
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October 28, 2013
Federal Judge: HB 2 Places "Undue Burden" on Texas Women
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel never intended to wade into the abortion wars. He made that much clear in the preamble to his ruling, handed down today, in Planned Parenthood's lawsuit over Texas' new abortion restrictions: Today there is no issue that divides the people of this country more than ab ... More >>
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October 22, 2013
In Court, Texas Says New Abortion Restrictions Needed to "Protect Fetal Life"
The stakes in the two-day trial over Planned Parenthood's challenge to Texas' new abortion restrictions, which kicked off yesterday in Austin, are rather low. Whatever decision U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel hands down will be appealed to the 5th Circuit, then the Supreme Court, leaving the law in c ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2013
Texas' New Abortion-Clinic Rules Could Be Stricter Than Those For Many Surgery Centers
Unless Planned Parenthood's lawsuit gets in the way, Texas' new abortion restrictions will require all abortion providers to become ambulatory surgical centers by September 1, 2014 or close their doors. But state regulators seem to be even tougher on abortion clinics than for your typical ASC. Unti ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2013
Has Your State Been Sued By Planned Parenthood Yet?
Any old state controlled by aging Republicans can pass laws to dramatically restrict access to abortion. It's what you do when your state faces poverty, drought and a ton of other pressing issues that you'd rather not deal with. But making the anti-abortion laws stick is the real challenge. Texas is ... More >>
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September 27, 2013
Planned Parenthood Is Suing Texas Over New Abortion Restrictions
BREAKING: PP, @ACLU, & @ReproRights have filed a suit in federal court to stop #HB2 from taking effect in TX. #StandWithTXWomen— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) September 27, 2013 Long before Wendy Davis laced up her pink Mizunos and stepped onto the floor of the Texas Senate for her h ... More >>
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August 20, 2013
Denton's Life Dynamics is on a Mission to End Abortion by Suing Clinics over Child Rape
Life Dynamics, the Denton-based pro-life group that long ago earned a permanent spot on Planned Parenthood's anti-choice hall of fame, has always prided itself on being a bit different from its allies in the abortion fight. It's less about standing outside of abortion clinics with photos of bloody f ... More >>
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July 19, 2013
Planned Parenthood Announces Plans to Close Three Texas Clinics, Blames the Legislature
It hasn't even been 24 hours since Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 2, the infamous abortion clinic-killing bill, into law, and three Planned Parenthood clinics are already making plans to shut their doors. The Huffington Post reports that Planned Parenthood clinics in Bryan, Huntsville and Lu ... More >>
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July 10, 2013
At City Hall Today, Lawmakers and Planned Parenthood Urged Dallas to "Stand With Texas Women"
The Texas House just passed sweeping abortion restrictions. Once they pass the senate, the procedure will be banned 20 weeks post-fertilization, and all but five abortion providers in the state will be forced to close thanks to a medically unnecessary requirement that they meet the standards of ambu ... More >>
News
May 9, 2013
Sex Ed the Texas Way
Dallas wants to close the book on abstinence-only education. Texas keeps getting in the way.
Blogs
March 26, 2013
Feds Bypass State, Give $13 Million for Family Planning Directly to Women's Health Coalition
Maybe you're not a Yiddish speaker, but you need a handy illustration of the concept of "chutzpah." In Spanish: cojones. Or in English, if you insist: king-sized brass balls. If you need a real-world demonstration of this cross-cultural concept, you have only to look at how your state-level bureaucr ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2013
Texas Reps. Say Planned Parenthood Recruits Schoolkids, Aim to End Its Sex Ed Effort
Texas parents beware: your children are being "imperiled" by "abortion peddlers" who want to teach them "sex education." No. No, they're not. Although at some point someone might want to teach them to put a condom on a banana, and conservative lawmakers, predictably, want to make damn sure that per ... More >>
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January 11, 2013
Judge Denies Planned Parenthood's Request to Let Them Back in Texas Women's Health Program
Let's do this quickly, so you can incorporate it into all the sorrows you're about drown after you leave work today. A state judge has denied Planned Parenthood's request for a temporary injunction that would have allowed them to rejoin the Texas Women's Health Program. According to Mary Tuma, a r ... More >>
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January 8, 2013
Texas Claims New Women's Health Program Will Serve More Patients Without Planned Parenthood, Despite Contrary Evidence
On New Year's Eve, a state judge ruled that Texas can keep Planned Parenthood out of its new, state-run Women's Health Program. On January 1, that program began; it'll continue to be Planned Parenthood-less until at least January 11, when the next hearing in the case will be held, and possibly forev ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2012
In Never-Ending Battle Between Texas and Planned Parenthood, Judge Says PP Can Be Blocked From New Women's Health Program
For those of you who have been following the ongoing, never-ending, multi-court battle of Texas vs. Planned Parenthood, we'll make this quick: Planned Parenthood is out of the Texas Women's Health Program. Again. For now. Now, let's all heave a huge collective sigh and revisit the longer version ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2012
Texas Now Serves Fewer Family Planning Patients and Spends More Money To Do It
In the last legislative session, Texas lawmakers cut the state's family planning budget by two-thirds, a loss of around $73.6 million over the next two years. The reason behind this, naturally, was that "family planning" is clearly a secret code word for "abortion." "Of course this is a war on bir ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2012
Planned Parenthood V. Texas, Round 1,867: Judge Rules PP Can Stay in the WHP, For Now
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but it's true: the argument between the state of Texas and Planned Parenthood over the Women's Health Program looks like it's never, ever going to end. This case has dragged itself through state courts, federal courts, and back down to the state level again, ... More >>
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October 26, 2012
Texas Will "Immediately" Defund Planned Parenthood After Court Refuses to Hear its Plea
That faint popping sound you heard last night was Governor Rick Perry uncorking a nice bottle of bubbly, after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused a request by Planned Parenthood to rehear the case over its ban from the new Texas Women's Health Program (TWHP). Texas, it appears ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2012
New England Journal of Medicine Says Texas' Family Planning Cuts Are A Public Health Disaster
It's been nearly a year since Texas legislators slashed the state's family planning funding, diverting $73 million to a variety of other programs. That was about two-thirds of the total family planning budget, and the conservative lawmakers who orchestrated the cuts were vocal about why they'd done ... More >>
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September 20, 2012
At the Opening of a Houston Pregnancy Center, Rick Perry Pledges To Help "Make Abortion A Thing of the Past"
Governor Rick Perry, it may shock you to learn, is not such a big fan of abortion. Perry vowed some time ago to create a new, Texas-run version of the Women's Health Program, one that would ban doctors from discussing or "promoting" abortion with their patients. It would also explicitly bar Planned ... More >>
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August 22, 2012
Appeals Court Says Planned Parenthood Can Be Banned From the Women's Health Program, Rick Perry Rejoices
Texas' game of women's health pingpong continues. A panel of judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction yesterday that had allowed Planned Parenthood to remain in the Medicaid Women's Health Program. In other words, PP is out. Again. The nonprofit was boote ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2012
Ex-Komen VP Karen Handel is Writing a Memoir Called "Planned Bullyhood"
Karen Handel is back, and she's bringing 304 pages with her. Susan G. Komen For The Cure's ex-vice president of public policy, who resigned in February after an enormous flap over Komen's attempt to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, is writing a tell-all, to be published in September by Howa ... More >>
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August 9, 2012
Just When You Thought The Dust Had Settled, Susan G. Komen President, CEO Step Aside
A few months back, the Susan G. Komen For the Cure, the Dallas-based, Nancy Brinker-founded organization that has single-handedly made breast cancer a cause celeb, thrust itself squarely in the middle of the abortion debate when it announced plans to cut funding from Planned Parenthood. Brinker walk ... More >>
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May 29, 2012
Americans United For Life: Texas Is Pleasingly Abortion-Unfriendly, But It Could Do Better
Americans United For Life, one of the nation's largest anti-abortion advocacy groups, has released its annual report, Defending Life 2012, complete with an enthusiastic blurb from Governor Rick Perry. On the whole, they seem very pleased with Texas and its "aggressive legislative action" to restrict ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2012
Texas Can't Kick Planned Parenthood Out of the WHP After All, Appeals Court Says
Earlier this week, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction that kept Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of the Women's Health Program. It looked as though that was the first step toward a decision allowing Texas to keep Planned Parenthood out ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
Judge: Texas Can Kick Planned Parenthood Out of the Women's Health Program
When we said yesterday Planned Parenthood could remain part of the Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program "for now," we didn't know "now" would last less than 24 hours. A Fifth Circuit appeals judge has overturned yesterday's preliminary injunction blocking Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood o ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Planned Parenthood Wins Battle in War on Women as Judge Puts Off Exclusion from WHP
The scuffle between Texas and the feds over women's healthcare was supposed to get real tomorrow, when Planned Parenthood was scheduled to be barred from being a provider for the state's Medicaid Women's Health Program. But earlier today, Federal District Judge Lee Yeakel granted the non-profit its ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
The Strange Tale of Tucker Max and His Failed $500,000 Planned Parenthood Donation
For the past few days, several corners of the Internet have been all a-flutter over a recent piece on Forbes.com by a man named Ryan Holiday, who describes himself as a "strategist for big authors and big brands." Holiday apparently had tried to arrange a donation of $500,000 from one of his clien ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2012
The Defunding of Women's Health Care in Texas May Force Rural Clinics to Close
We keep hammering away at this same general point, but really: It's been a terrible year for family planning providers in Texas. First the Legislature moved $73.6 million out of the state family-planning budget for the next two years . At the same time, they changed to a tiered funding structure tha ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2012
Homeless Man Accused of Throwing Molotov Cocktails at State Sen. Wendy Davis' Fort Worth Office
On Tuesday night, state Senator Wendy Davis' staff announced that someone had set a small fire outside the door of her Fort Worth office using bottles filled with lighter fluid. The senator wasn't there at the time, and no one else was hurt during the incident, which badly scorched the door of the o ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2012
Planned Parenthood Director Turned Pro-Life Superstar Is Suing PP For Alleged Medicaid Fraud
As long as we're on the general theme of "unpleasant events that are somehow related to the Medicaid Women's Health Program," let's throw this one in there too: Abby Johnson, who was until a couple of years ago the director of a clinic that was part of Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast, is now su ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2012
Texas Alliance For Life Executive Director Not Sure Why No One Is "Cheering For Rick Perry"
Pro-life groups in Texas are in an awkward position these days, as the Medicaid Women's Health Program fights for its life. On one hand, they celebrate anything that they perceive as a blow to Planned Parenthood (which Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas Executive Director Karen Garnett once ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Eddie Bernice Johnson on Rick Perry: "I Don't Even Know This Governor Anymore"
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who worked as a nurse before heading to Washington, dropped by Martin Bashir's show on MSNBC to denounce Governor Rick Perry's stance toward Planned Parenthood (and to call Rush Limbaugh "un-American".) "I don't even know this governor anymore," the congresswoman says in ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2012
Medicaid Women's Health Program Is One Step Closer To Death
The Medicaid Women's Health Program provides some 130,000 Texas women with vital medical care: family planning, birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams. And for that, of course, it must die. That, at least, has long been the case as far as Republican lawmakers are concerned. And after last ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Maybe It's Time for Komen to Change Those Pink Ribbons to GOP Red
We still have to read between the lines to glimpse the bottom line on the Komen Foundation's attack on Planned Parenthood, but the slowly emerging truth of the matter doesn't bode well. Karen Handel, the Komen executive who resigned yesterday, has a weird talent for letting the cat out of the bag e ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
A MoveOn Petition, And a Really Tiny Protest, Outside Komen's LBJ Headquarters Today
It probably hasn't escaped the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's notice that an awful lot of people are very, very unhappy with the organization lately. Just to drive the point home a little further, reps from MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet announced they'd be hand-delivering a Move ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2012
Nancy Brinker, Komen Foundation Fell Victim to the Great Texas Echo Chamber
Wait, wait. We haven't finished the conversation yet about whether Rick Perry has embarrassed Texas so badly we can never again show our faces outside the state. Are you telling me now we've got to have the same conversation already about Nancy Brinker? What if people start connecting the do ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
As Brinker Tries to Explain Komen's Split From Planned Parenthood, an Inside Account
As you know by now, locally based Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood, meaning it'll no longer help pay for mammograms for women who can't afford them; why, there's Nancy Brinker herself above, attempting to explain Komen's "new granting strategies" concerning i ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
How One Man's Witch Hunt Made Komen Decide to Cut Off Grants to Planned Parenthood
Perhaps you've heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don't bother clicking the link; the site's not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood, a move Planned Parenthood of North Texas says comes after "anti-women's health groups have repeate ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
Texas's New Sonogram Law Is Going Into Effect Immediately. As In: Right Now.
Just four days after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Rick Perry's favorite law -- the one requiring women to get a sonogram, listen to a fetal heartbeat and hear a verbal description from a doctor of the sonogram image before they can get an abortion -- is street legal, the court issue ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
A Successful Health Program May End Thanks to Texas's Quest to Kill Planned Parenthood
ViaYou, sir, must not be a Texas legislator.It's been a good 14 minutes since the state twisted its rusty knife into the already-wounded gut of women's healthcare. But fear not: There's a huge, ugly storm brewing between the state and federal governments over the Medicaid Women's Health Progr ... More >>
News
October 27, 2011
The End of Family Planning in Texas
They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Center for Reproductive Rights Has New Site For Lone Star Ladies and Other In Utero News
Starting September 1, if you're a woman in Texas seeking an abortion, a few new things are going to happen at the doctor's office. You're going to be given a sonogram, have the image of the fetus described to you "in detail," and possibly be asked to listen to a fetal heart monitor (although you ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
Arlington Rep. Bill Zedler Wants To Hear All About Your Abortion
Rep. Bill Zedler just has a few questions about your legal medical procedure.In the latest piece of depressing women's health news from the Texas Legislature, The Dallas Morning News reported today that the House has voted to deny state funding to public hospitals that either perform "elective a ... More >>
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