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  Trump Administration Plays Enabler to Texas’ Crappy Women’s Health Program

  January 23 at 4 a.m.

  In 2011, Texas booted Planned Parenthood from the state's Women's Health Program, starving the family-planning provider from federal Medicaid funds. Almost half of Planned Parenthood's Texas clinics closed, depriving many in the state of critical medical care. Two years later, the federal government cut off funding to the program, because...

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  Abortion Sanctuary Movement Continues its Long March Through Small-Town Texas

  January 16 at 4 a.m.

  When the Observer first reported on the burgeoning "sanctuary cities" for the unborn movement last summer, the whole thing seemed like a sideshow. Waskom, a town smack-dab in the middle of Gohmertland in East Texas, banned abortion clinics within its city limits. The town based its decision on the fact that,...

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  Texas Abortion Patients Seeking to End Pregnancies on Their Own

  January 10 at 4 a.m.

  However a government might seek to restrict abortion, people with pregnancies they don't wish to carry to term are going to seek the procedure out. It's a fact one will hear again and again from pro-choice researchers and activists, and a new study from TxPEP, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project,...

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  At the End of a Tumultuous Year, What’s Next for Texans’ Reproductive Rights?

  Friday, December 27, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Given the anti-choice laws being passed around the rest of the country — in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri and elsewhere — there's a temptation for abortion rights supporters in Texas to take a deep breath. The 2019 edition of the Texas Legislature didn't pass a total ban on abortion. Neither...

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  New Book Says Birth Control Changes Women’s Brains and We Need to Understand How

  Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Hormone-based birth control has a much more nuanced and wide-spread effect on women’s brains than we commonly think, according to a new book written by Texas Christian University Research Psychologist Sarah E. Hill.

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  New Report Shows Woeful State of Women’s Health in Texas Cities

  Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  In a state where everyone's blind, the one-eyed cities are kings, or something like that. That's the big takeaway from a new study from the National Institute for Reproductive Health. Texas' cities, the only places in the state where women can actually seek out a legal abortion, lag behind cities...