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Inside Texas’ Failed Experiment to Replace Planned Parenthood with an Anti-Abortion Group

The Heidi Group’s quick rise and fall is a cautionary tale of prioritizing politics over proven health providers.

by Sophie Novack

Keep Reading

Texas Republicans Dismiss Research as They Move to Further Defund Planned Parenthood

by Sophie Novack

Without Planned Parenthood, Almost Half the Providers in Texas’ Women’s Health Program Saw No Patients

by Sophie Novack

Texas Ends Contracts for Anti-Abortion Group Tapped to Provide Women’s Health Services

by Sophie Novack

Trust Respect Access rally Mar 02, 2015

How Five Texans Have Experienced Women’s Health Policies

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

A patient waits for the abortion pill to be administered at Whole Woman’s Health in San Antonio. HB 2, currently being challenged in court, imposes restrictions that will effectively reduce the number of abortion clinics in the state from almost 60 to fewer than 10. Sep 30, 2014

Eye On Texas: Jennifer Whitney Captures the Decline of Women’s Health Care

by Jennifer Whitney

Main room of the Hill Country Community Action Agency's San Saba family-planning clinic May 14, 2013

State Left Family-Planning Money Unspent While Clinics Closed

EXCLUSIVE: Texas health department had $2.3 million left over in its family-planning budget as dozens of clinics closed from lack of funds.

by Carolyn Jones

Mar 25, 2013

Health Coalition Swipes Family-Planning Funds from State of Texas

Federal government bypasses state agency, awards Title X grant to Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of Texas.

by Carolyn Jones

Main room of the Hill Country Community Action Agency's San Saba family-planning clinic Feb 27, 2013

‘Everything Is Gone’: Family-Planning Clinics Disappear From Rural Texas

by Carolyn Jones

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