Health Care
Rick Perry’s Refusal to Expand Texas’ Medicaid Program Could Result In Thousands of Deaths
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is among several governors, mostly southern and Republican, who are resisting Medicaid expansion. If Texas doesn’t expand Medicaid, it w...Read More
Perry’s “Fetal Pain” Bill Probably Wouldn’t Prevent Fetal Pain, Would Close Abortion Clinics
There’s always womb for Rick Perry. On Tuesday, he alighted at The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center in Houston whose opening ribbon he cut in Septe...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
Sister Act: Gov. Perry’s Little-Known Sister is a Lobbyist for Lucrative Doctor-Owned Hospitals
The glaring media scrutiny that helped derail Rick Perry’s presidential campaign never revealed that the governor’s older sister is a lobbyist embroiled in ...Read More
Writer and Activist Bill McKibben on the Fight to Save the Planet (VIDEO)
Even though he was greeted like a rockstar at the University of Texas last night, and given a standing ovation this morning at SXSWEco, Bill McKibben confessed...Read More
State Rejects GEO Care’s Bid to Privatize Psychiatric Hospital
This story was produced as part of a joint venture with Reporting Texas, an online publication at the University of Texas-Austin’s School of Journalism. The T...Read More
State Rejects GEO Care’s Bid to Privatize Psychiatric Hospital
The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Wednesday that it would not accept GEO Care’s bid to privatize the Kerrville State Hospital, citing co...Read More