Tag Archives: Collateral Damage
Perry’s Special Session: A Cruel Summer for Abortion Rights
Abortion-rights activists thought it was too good to be true, and it was. Four strict anti-abortion bills that failed to pass in the 83rd Texas Legislature̵...Read More
‘Everything Is Gone’: Family-Planning Clinics Disappear From Rural Texas
State budget cuts to family planning hit hardest in rural areas, where low-income women had fewer options to begin....Read More
Pregnant? Scared? Can They Help?
The rise of crisis pregnancy centers and the abortion-alternative industry in Texas.
As $26.3 million in taxpayer money funds the ‘abortion alternatives’ industry, dogma drowns reason and hurts vulnerable women too. ...Read More
Texas Women’s Health Advocates to Bypass State in Bid for Federal Funds
Observer exclusive: Coalition hopes to restore family planning funding by applying directly to federal government.
Texas lawmakers have spent the past two years attacking family planning services in the state, cutting funds for programs that provide women with birth control ...Read More
Texas Women’s Health Program to launch Nov. 1
Planned Parenthood is out of the program and state says the market will rapidly replace them. But watch out for the poison pill clause.
This is the third story in our Collateral Damage series examining the impact of family planning cuts in Texas. You can read the second story in the series here...Read More
A Nightmare Scenario for Women’s Health
By excluding Planned Parenthood from the Women’s Health Program, Rick Perry has intensified Texas’ family planning crisis
This is the second story in our Collateral Damage series examining the impact of family planning cuts in Texas. You can read the first story in the series here....Read More
One Year Later, Cuts to Women’s Health Have Hurt More Than Just Planned Parenthood
More than 60 family planning clinics forced to close—only 12 belonged to Planned Parenthood. Critics say conservative lawmakers are ‘throwing the baby out with the bath water.’
The first in an occasional series of stories examining the impact of deep cuts to family planning services in Texas. Diaphragms. Depo-Provera injections. Oral c...Read More
‘We Have No Choice’: One Woman’s Ordeal with Texas’ New Sonogram Law
The painful decision to terminate a pregnancy is now—thanks to Texas' harsh new law—just the beginning of the torment.
After learning a molecular flaw wouldn't allow her son's body to develop correctly, writer Carolyn Jones faced the personal politics of Texas' sonogram law....Read More