Gov. Rick Perry said Texas will continue to fund the Women’s Health Program no matter what the federal government does. But Planned Parenthood won’t be able to participate — and the program likely won’t operate under Medicaid.
Emily Ramshaw
Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody Award, several national Murrow Awards and top honors from the Online News Association.
Before joining the Tribune in 2010 as one of its founding reporters, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for the disabled. The Texas APME named Ramshaw its 2008 star reporter of the year. In 2016, she was named to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes.
A native of Washington, D.C., and the product of two journalist parents, Ramshaw graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with dual degrees in journalism and American history.
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Women’s Clinics Retreat As Finances Are Cut
For the state’s social conservatives, forgoing family planning funding is a small price to pay to send a powerful message: They want Planned Parenthood out of Texas.
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Poll: Voters Don’t Want to Ban Planned Parenthood From Health Program
A new poll sponsored by Planned Parenthood found that 59 percent of likely Texas voters oppose efforts to keep the health provider’s clinics out of the joint state-federal Women’s Health Program. But the poll is likely to have critics.
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Perry Blasts Obama Over Women’s Health Program
Gov. Rick Perry today added his own voice to the increasingly loud controversy over the expected demise of Texas’ Women’s Health Program.
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Suehs: Feds’ Stand on Women’s Health Program Sets Dangerous Precedent
In an uncharacteristically angry letter written as the Women’s Health Program circles the drain, the state health commissioner is blasting the Obama administration’s argument that Texas can’t exclude Planned Parenthood clinics.
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Perry’s Surgeon Has Been Critical of Health Policies
The doctor performing Gov. Rick Perry’s clavicle surgery on Friday happens to be the president of the Texas Medical Association — and a vocal critic of some of the governor’s women’s health policies.
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Two Sonogram Bills, Two Different Reactions
Despite their striking similarities, Texas’ abortion sonogram bill and Virginia’s abortion sonogram bill were debated at very different times, and under very different circumstances — leading to a very different national reaction.
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Health Commissioner Signs Rule Banning Abortion Affiliates
Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Tom Suehs signed a rule today that formally bans Planned Parenthood clinics and other “affiliates of abortion providers” from the Women’s Health Program — likely ending the program.
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Perry Targets “Left-Wing, Pro-Abortion Radicals” in CPAC Speech
Gov. Rick Perry targeted “left-wing, pro-abortion radicals” in a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, blaming the Obama administration for the state’s stand-off over the Women’s Health Program.
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Industry, Political Players Drive Proposed Rules on Adult Stem Cell Therapy
The Texas Medical Board, this week considering rules governing adult stem cell treatments, has had no shortage of input — from Gov. Rick Perry and the doctor who injected him with his own stem cells last summer, among others.
