Senate Bill 537 is officially stalled in the Senate - one vote short of the super majority needed to bring it to the floor. SB 537, filed by State Senator Bob Deuell (R), is a thinly veiled attempt to close more than than three-fourths of the abortion clinics in Texas (37 of 42) by subjecting them to unnecessary and burdensome regulations.Read More >>
Despite comments made by Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission executive director Kyle Janeck this morning, the Texas Women’s Health Program (WHP) will not be launching tomorrow due to potential lack of providers and the need to keep accepting federal funding.Read More >>
On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, the Department of State Health Services hosted a hearing about the new rules being applied to the Texas Women’s Healthcare Program (WHP), a family planning and healthcare program for low-income women. Concerned citizens and legislators from both parties came together to express their outrage over the plan to cut out Planned Parenthood from the program.Read More >>
Last week Rep. Denny Rehberg released a "labor, heath, and education spending bill that would defund Planned Parenthood and Title X, block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, allow any employer to deny women birth control coverage under the ACA for "moral reasons" and increase spending for abstinence-only education."Read More >>
Birth control serves as a fundamental component of women’s healthcare. Unfortunately, there are a couple of bills floating around Congress that would take away access to contraception based on personal beliefs and moral principles. Personal views should not impede on women’s health needs...Read More >>
In recent days, Mitt Romney has been on the presidential trail bashing the Obama administration’s requirement that all employers and insurers provide contraception and other reproductive health care services. On Monday, Romney took it a step further and accused President Obama of tramping on religious freedom...Read More >>
Yesterday a three-judge panel from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals chaired by a judge openly hostile to Roe v. Wade reversed a lower court ruling and upheld a demeaning and intrusive Texas ultrasound law that would intimidate and judge women seeking reproductive health care. In 2011, the Texas legislature attacked women’s health...Read More >>
