After three days of testimony from attorneys for the state and Planned Parenthood, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks is letting the reproductive health provider stay in Medicaid until Feb. 21.
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State focuses on anti-abortion group video in Planned Parenthood hearing
Showing multiple clips from a video released in 2015 by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress, state attorneys and witnesses said the footage was grounds for dismissing Planned Parenthood from Medicaid.
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Criminal Justice
At court, Planned Parenthood argues against removal from Medicaid
Planned Parenthood lawyers and witnesses said in front of a packed courtroom that ending the organization’s reimbursements for Medicaid could endanger access to family planning services for Texas’ most vulnerable populations.
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Texan group added then removed as partner for Women’s March on Washington over abortion stance
A Texas-based feminist group that describes itself as “pro-life” learned Monday it had been abruptly removed as a listed partner of the Women’s March on Washington scheduled for the day after the presidential inauguration.
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Health care
Texas reproductive rights groups brace for Legislature
Reproductive rights advocates have expressed concern that Texas lawmakers will take bolder steps in the upcoming session to defund abortion providers and dismantle access to abortion, birth control and other sexual health services.
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Health care
Arguments begin in lawsuit over Texas fetal remains burial rule
In the first of two days of hearings, Texas attorneys and the Center for Reproductive Rights went head-to-head over whether the state will be allowed to implement its fetal remains burial rule.
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Health care
Judge delays Texas’ fetal remains rule until Jan. 6
Judge Sam Sparks ruled Thursday afternoon that the Texas Department of State Health Services would have to push back its start date requiring health providers to bury or cremate aborted fetuses.
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Health care
Center for Reproductive Rights sues Texas over fetal remains rule
The center had pledged in August to take legal action if the new fetal remains rules were adopted.
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Health care
Funeral directors anxious over fetal remains rules
New Texas regulations requiring cremation or burial of fetal remains will probably be more expensive than state health officials predict, funeral directors say.
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Health care
Texas to implement rules requiring burial or cremation of fetal remains
The rules will prohibit hospitals, abortion clinics and other health care facilities from disposing of fetal remains in sanitary landfills, allowing only cremation or burial.
