Reporter Thanh Tan takes us to South Texas, where some women are relying on a medication they can purchase over the counter in unregulated Mexican pharmacies to end their pregnancies. Reeve Hamilton looks at meningitis vaccine requirements at colleges and universities.
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Weekend Insider: Suspicious Abortion Pills
Reporter Thanh Tan takes us to South Texas where the lack of womens health is forcing pregnant woman to cross the border for in search of alternatives.
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Medical Groups Oppose Women’s Health Program Rule
A proposed state rule that would prohibit doctors in Texas’ Women’s Health Program from discussing the option of abortion with their patients — even if the patient asks about it — has drawn the opposition of Texas medical groups.
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Interactive Map: Women’s Health Program Providers
Use our interactive map to chart the locations of health care providers participating in Texas’ Women’s Health Program. Flip through various map styles to compare women’s health statistics statewide, or get a video tutorial here.
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Video Series: The State of Family Planning in Texas
From the evolution of state and federally subsidized contraception to the battle over Planned Parenthood to the cost of unplanned pregnancies, this six-part series is the most comprehensive look yet at the politics of reproductive health in Texas.
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Interactive: State Family Planning Contractors
Take a look at our interactive table to compare family planning providers who contracted with the state in fiscal years 2011 and 2012, and see how their funding levels have changed.
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Data Explainer: Women’s Health Program Providers
A brief tutorial on how to use the Texas Tribune’s interactive map on women’s health.
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Could HHSC Face a Public Ed-Sized Leadership Void?
First, the state’s Medicaid director announced he was retiring. Now, Health and Human Services chief Tom Suehs says he hasn’t decided whether he will quit in August. Will HHSC rival public education for next session’s biggest leadership void?
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Video: Looking at the State of Abortion in Texas
In Part 4 of the Tribune’s series on family planning, we take a closer look at how abortion has shifted public policy in Texas in recent years — and where the political battle may be headed next.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
E. Smith interviews Dan Patrick about John Carona, Root on the race to replace Ron Paul, Batheja on a nest of open House seats in Tarrant County, Aguilar on a border brawl over a congressional seat in El Paso, Tan on the fight over Planned Parenthood in West Texas, Aaronson maps the holes in the state’s health care provider network, M. Smith on who might be the next Texas education commissioner, Ramshaw on social media sabotage, Hamilton and Ramshaw on the reaction to news of job insecurity for UT-Austin’s president and Grissom on a knickers-twisting historical marker: The best of our best content from May 7 to 11, 2012.