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FILTER RESULTS ►Texas Lawmakers Work To Restore Funding For Women’s Health Programs After Backlash From Voters
For more than a year, Texas lawmakers have been on a crusade against Planned Parenthood that has resulted in deep cuts to family planning services that thousands of women rely on. But, particularly after the state’s health department projected a sharp rise in unintended births as a direct result of the budget cuts, Texas Republicans [...]
Charts: This is What Happens When You Defund Planned Parenthood
In the past two years, Texas legislators slashed funds for family planning and passed up $30 million a year in federal Medicaid money, largely to squeeze Planned Parenthood out of the state's women's health programs. Last week, hundreds...Show More Summary
Paul Ryan Learns Nothing from Historic Gender Gap: Budget Guts Women’s Health Programs
Our guest blogger is Lindsay Rosenthal, a Research Assistant for Health Policy and Women’s Health and Rights at the Center for American Progress. The 20 point gender gap in the 2012 election was the largest since Gallup poll began tracking in 1952 — the Obama-Biden ticket beat the Romney-Ryan ticket by a large margin with [...]
Happy 100th Birthday, Big Oil Tax Breaks
Automatic across-the-board budget cuts will take hold on Friday, affecting job growth, state education programs, environmental agencies, and women’s health programs. The sequester actually shares an important anniversary — with Big Oil tax breaks. Show More Summary
Thanks To Anti-Planned Parenthood Crusade, Texas Women Have Fewer Doctors To Choose From
Texas officials were so insistent on defunding Planned Parenthood, they dismantled the state’s federally-funded Women’s Health Program — a network of doctors that provide care for low-income women — so they could relaunch a new program excluding the national organization. But targeting Planned Parenthood comes at a steep price for the women seeking preventative care [...]
Planned Parenthood seeks injunction in Texas funding law
(CNN) - Planned Parenthood in Texas heads to federal court Friday, looking for a temporary injunction that would allow it to take part in the state's revamped Women's Health Program. Late last month, a Texas judge denied the group's request for a temporary restraining order that would have extended the organization's ability to participate. FULL [...]
After Forcing Women To Drop Their Doctors, Texas Gives Them A Faulty List Of Replacements
When Texas intentionally dismantled its women’s health program by refusing to fund Planned Parenthood — the largest women’s health group in the country — the state was essentially telling poor women they would need to find new doctors. Thousands of Texan women are now searching for a new provider, but the state is doing a [...]
Half of Texas's Low-Income Women Have to Find New Doctors Because Rick Perry Hates Planned Parenthood
On January 1st, Texas launched its revamped Women's Health Program. By revamped, we mean that the state-run system that is supposed to service Texas's 100,000 low-income women no longer includes satanic abortionplex Planned Parenthood,...Show More Summary
Thousands Of Women Forced To Find New Doctors Now That Texas Has Defunded Planned Parenthood
After anti-choice Texas officials spent most of 2012 attempting to defund their state’s Planned Parenthood clinics, they finally succeeded. On January 1, Texas launched its new state-run Women’s Health Program — a network of health care organizations that provide preventative care and family planning to low-income women — without Planned Parenthood. Since the national women’s [...]
Texas Judge Rules State Can De-Fund Planned Parenthood
A Texas state judge has delivered a ruling in response to the second legal challenge Planned Parenthood has brought against the state for removing the abortion business from its taxpayer-funded women’s health program. The judge refused today to grant a temporary restraining order allowing Planned Parenthood to rejoin the Texas Women’s Health Program in time [...]
Medicaid Funding Denied For Texas Women's Health Program
This morning, U.S. District Judge Walter Smith, Jr. denied Texas’ request to prevent the Health and Human Services Department from cutting off funding for the Texas Women’s Health Program (WHP). The Associated Press reports that without the state’s request for a preliminary injunction, Medicaid funding for the WHP will likely expire on December 31st. [ more › ]
Planned Parenthood Charging Women for Free Services in Govt Program
On Thursday, in a letter to the Third Court of Appeals, Planned Parenthood admitted that they have been charging women for services that should be free under the Women’s Health Program (WHP), which serves low-income Texan women. Providers enrolled in the program are reimbursed by the federal government. The letter states, “Pending a ruling on [...]
Texas Will Keep Tax-Funding Planned Parenthood, For Now
The state of Texas announced this afternoon that it will continue funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business through its women’s health program until it can verify it has enough alternatives to meet the non-abortion health needs of women in the state. Health and Human Service Commissioner Kyle Janek said Wednesday the state needs more time [...]
Texas Officials Confirm Planned Parenthood Will Remain Fully Funded Until The End Of This Year
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) convened a press conference today to announce the creation of a fully state-funded Women’s Health Program for Medicaid recipients, but his political theater only served to obscure the truth about women’s health services in Texas. Earlier this year, Texas announced its intention to fund the Medicaid providers in its Women’s Health [...]
What Do You Think of the New Logo for Texas Women's Health? (Hint: It's the Worst)
The Texas Women’s Health Program has finally rolled out their brand new logo—tweeted breathlessly by Governor Rick Perry—and it’s pretty hideous. Lindy West and Erin Gloria Ryan discussed the design via chat today. Erin: The new logo...Show More Summary
Christina Hoff Sommers: "The Affordable Care Act mentions 'breast' 44 times, 'prostate' not once."
"It also establishes an elaborate and expensive network of special programs to promote women’s health. Programs for men are nowhere to be found. What explains the imbalance?" Possible answers: 1. Focusing on breasts works for everybody: Men love breasts and women feel cared for. 2. Show More Summary
Texas Adopts Anti-Abortion Rules That Will Cut Health Care Services To Thousands Of Women
The Texas Health and Human Services department on Thursday adopted rules that will end federal funding to their Women’s Health Program, denying thousands of low-income women medical care. The rules require Texas’s HHS to stop giving funding to any organization considered an “abortion affiliate” — a loose definition for groups that tell women where they [...]
State Budget Cuts Force West Texas Planned Parenthood Clinic To Close
When Texas Republicans succeeded in defunding Planned Parenthood by cutting the women’s health group and other “affiliates of abortion providers” out of the Women’s Health Program, doctors and advocates warned that this would hurt health care for low-income women in the state. Without Planned Parenthood clinics in the Medicaid-funded health program, providers will have to [...]
New Report Examines Potential Impact of Changes in Texas' Women's Health Program
A new report finds that Texas policies to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from a state family planning program - the Women's Health Program (WHP) - would result in leaving tens of thousands of women unable to get care.
Texas is Replacing Legitimate Women's Health Clinics with Crisis Pregnancy Centers [Roe V World]
Texas's Women's Health Program used to serve nearly 111,000 women in dire need of affordable medical care — until Governor Rick Perry barred all clinics that provide, refer, or even promote abortion from inclusion. His decision prompted...Show More Summary
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