This Storify timeline looks at how the controversy over the Texas Women’s Health Program has unfolded.
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Feds Won’t Renew Women’s Health Program
The federal government will not renew the Women’s Health Program, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in Houston on Friday.
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Anti-Abortion Advocates Counter Planned Parenthood Media Blitz
As Planned Parenthood travels the state by bus to defend its Women’s Health Program funding, anti-abortion advocates gathered in Austin to blast the organization.
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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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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson and Tan interactively map women’s health program providers in Texas, Galbraith talks to the state’s climatologist about (what else?) the drought, Grissom with the latest on violence in youth prisons, Hamilton on why UTEP’s low four-year graduation rate may not matter, Murphy’s interactive comparing graduation rates and more at public universities in Texas, Ramsey on the redistricting end game (we think), Ramshaw on the state health commissioner’s attack on Planned Parenthood and Root on the closing of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s storied Austin bureau: The best of our best content from February 27 to March 2, 2012.
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Planned Parenthood Laments Expected Demise of Women’s Health Program
A crowd gathered Friday at the Planned Parenthood Health Center in Austin to express concerns over the expected demise of the Women’s Health Program.
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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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Republican Leaders Like Women’s Health Program — But Won’t Rescue It
The Legislature’s ranking public health leaders praise the success of the Women’s Health Program. But they won’t let Planned Parenthood participate in order to save the program from extinction.
