Family Planning in Texas

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The Texas Department of State Health Services helps fund nearly 400 clinic sites across the state that provide quality, comprehensive, low-cost, and easily accessible reproductive health care to women and men during their reproductive years. Services are provided at reasonable rates based on a sliding fee scale according to each client's income. No one is ever denied services because of an inability to pay.

This website will help direct you to family planning providers and available services in Texas. It also provides links to other DSHS sponsored reproductive health-related initiatives and resources.

What is Family Planning?
Have you ever thought about how many children, if any, you would like to have? Have you ever thought about if or when you would want to have them? It is important to think about these questions, because about half of all pregnancies are unintended. Family planning services offer people the opportunity to prevent, delay, space, or otherwise time pregnancy. Planning pregnancy can have the following benefits:

• Women and their children are healthier.
• Parents and children get more education.
• Families have more money.
• Marriages are more likely to last.
• Violence amongst family members is less likely.
• Fathers are more likely to stay involved in their children's lives.
  

Access to family planning education and services can also help men and women improve their overall health by reducing unintended pregnancies, teaching ways to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and helping individuals identify the early signs of illnesses such as breast, cervical, and testicular cancer. Community health is also improved when men and women are physically, emotionally, and financially prepared to take on the responsibility of having and caring for children.

Texas Department of State Health Services
Community Health Services Section
1100 W. 49th Street (Mail Code 1923)
Austin, TX 78756
Phone: (512) 458-7796
Fax: 512-458-7203

Email: Family Planning Feedback

Last Updated September 12, 2007