Texas women’s reproductive rights have drawn attention lately over the federal government’s decision to cut funding for the state’s Women’s Health Program. Use this interactive to see just how many pregnancies, births and abortions occur across the Lone Star State.
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Updated Map: Federally Funded Family-Planning Providers in Texas
The number of family-planning contractors statewide continues to drop in the face of dwindling state funds. Use this interactive map to see which family-planning clinics received funding in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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Health care
State Health Department Now Enforcing Sonogram Law
The Department of State Health Services will begin enforcing Texas’ abortion sonogram law, after releasing guidelines for women’s health clinics on Monday night.
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Video: Abortion Opponents React to Komen Reversal
Abortion opponents say they’re disappointed by Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to reverse its policy of prohibiting grants to Planned Parenthood.
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Legislators: Komen Decision Could Affect ’13 Session
Legislators and abortion opponents cheered the Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s original decision to cut funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Criminal Justice
State Seeking Room for Mentally Ill Inmates
A judge’s expected ruling forcing the state to find room to treat mentally ill inmates is sending officials in search of space at already-full mental hospitals.
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Peter Carmel and Bruce Malone: The TT Interview
American Medical Association President Peter Carmel and Texas Medical Association President Bruce Malone on the Medicare cuts that physicians face, Texas’ legal challenge to federal health reform and efforts to slash funding for Planned Parenthood.
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State Government
Abuse Reports Spur Questioning of State Hospital System
The revelation last year that the Texas state hospital system employed three doctors with a documented history of inappropriate behavior has lawmakers again investigating alleged abuse within the system. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports.
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Elizabeth Poster: The TT Interview
The dean of the University of Texas at Arlington’s College of Nursing on the college’s growth, its online studies program, state budget cuts and the critical shortage of nurses that Texas is facing.
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In Travis County, Aging Foster Children Find Aid
More than 16,000 children are in foster care in Texas. And when those children become adults, they’re often left to fend for themselves. But as Nathan Bernier of KUT News reports, the amount of help available to foster children in Travis County is on the rise.
