GOP House lawmakers took a sweeping approach to anti-abortion legislation on Friday, passing a measure that would ban the most common form of second-trimester procedure and change how health care providers dispose of fetal remains.
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Texas wants to renew federal women’s health funding it lost over Planned Parenthood
With a Republican president in the White House, Texas health officials are seeking to restore federal family planning funding they gave up under the Obama administration to take a stand against Planned Parenthood.
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Texas works to market health program without Planned Parenthood
The Healthy Texas Women Program is the state’s second attempt at reimagining how to provide health services for low-income women without organizations that provide abortions at some of their locations.
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Whole Woman’s Health CEO on Texas, Trump and the future of women’s health care
The Texas Tribune spoke to Whole Woman’s Health founder and CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller ahead of the Friday reopening of the organization’s Austin location.
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Texas bill requiring burial of fetal remains passes out of House committee
Texas hospitals and abortion clinics would have to bury or cremate fetal remains under a measure that passed out of a House committee on Tuesday.
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Women’s health providers say Trump-backed measure won’t affect Texas — yet
Women’s health organizations in Texas say a President Trump-signed measure targeting abortion providers will not have an affect here — yet. But it could in the coming years.
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Texas lawmakers seek to ensure no state funds reach abortion providers
An amendment to ban abortion providers from receiving any funds from the state budget passed in the House, but it’s unclear how effective it would be in fully defunding groups like Planned Parenthood.
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Planned Parenthood supporters rally for reproductive health access
The rally comes as Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas and around the country vie for funding and survival now that Republicans control both chambers of Congress, the White House and many state legislatures.
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Texas Senate tentatively approves fetal remains bill
The Texas Senate tentatively approved a bill that would change how health providers in the state handle fetal tissue Wednesday.
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Higher Education
Rick Perry wades into student election at his alma mater (video)
Texas’ longest-serving governor took time away from his new job as the U.S. Secretary of Energy to question the election that resulted in Texas A&M’s first openly gay student body president.
