Posts Tagged planned parenthood

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Texas abortion drug bill could mean more side effects and higher costs

By | 12.20.12 | 1:08 pm

A GOP lawmaker is looking to make Texas the latest state to restrict the use of abortion medications in a way that some experts warn could increase the drugs’ side effects while making them more expensive. More…

Texas lawmaker seeks to reverse Planned Parenthood ban

By | 11.16.12 | 11:54 am

A Texas lawmaker introduced legislation earlier this week that would nullify a controversial rule banning abortion affiliates from participating in a Medicaid program that offers reproductive health care to low-income women. More…

Texas health commissioner: database errors are a ‘real problem’

By | 11.01.12 | 11:44 am

Texas health commissioner Kyle Janek said Wednesday that errors in a state-crafted database intended to help women find reproductive health care providers are “a real problem.” More…

College student Crystal Gonzalez sits in a McAllen, Texas, coffee shop while searching for a new health care provider. Photo by Mary Tuma.

‘Why are they making this more difficult for us?’

By | 10.29.12 | 12:57 pm

When Texas decided to exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from its Medicaid-funded women’s health care program, women like Crystal Gonzalez were left scrambling for a new provider. More…

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Anti-abortion scholar: Restrictions should be designed to raise costs for women

By | 09.21.12 | 9:34 am

Anti-abortion restrictions should be designed to raise “the costs” of abortions in order to discourage women from obtaining them, a prominent scholar for a leading anti-abortion group told an audience of social conservative activists in Washington last weekend. More…

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Health experts challenge coerced-abortion laws

By | 08.29.12 | 2:03 pm

On a Friday morning in September 2005, 22-year-old Brittany Wilson sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic a mile away from her home in Sioux Falls, S.D., and bawled her eyes out. More…

Citing “important precedent” neglected by state officials, three judge panel temporarily reinstates Planned Parenthood in WHP

By | 05.08.12 | 8:55 am

After a tumultuous week for the fate of reproductive care in Texas, Planned Parenthood will remain in the Women’s Health Program (WHP)– at least for now.
Just hours after an initial federal court ruling More… last Monday that deemed Texas’ controversial decision to block the centers from the WHP unconstitutional, a

Judge with history of disparaging women stays state appeal to exclude Planned Parenthood from WHP

By | 05.01.12 | 6:28 pm

A court ruling issued yesterday that would have stopped Texas from implementing a ban on Planned Parenthood providers in the Women’s Health Program (WHP) is now obsolete. The state quickly appealed the ruling just hours after it was announced and received a stay on the preliminary injunction the same day, More…