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The law allows private citizens to sue anyone who performs or helps someone get an abortion after roughly six weeks. If successful, the plaintiff could be awarded at least $10,000.
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A Texas judge raised concerns about the state's motives but ultimately said the federal courts should deal with the matter.
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Affiliates filed an emergency lawsuit in an effort to stop the state from blocking 8,000 low-income Texans on Medicaid from receiving care at the health clinics. The state's effort to block them from the program was set to go effect Thursday.
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The state's health commission gave Planned Parenthood's Medicaid patients until Feb. 3 to find new doctors. Experts say there are limited places low-income patients can go, in part because Texas already has a shortage of doctors who accept Medicaid due to the state’s low payment rates.
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Planned Parenthood officials say patients will have a hard time finding new providers in a short window of time during a pandemic.
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In a letter to health officials, Planned Parenthood asked to be allowed to continue serving people insured through the program for low-income people "in light of the COVID-19 public health crisis facing Texas."
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The court ruled legal precedent disqualifies Medicaid beneficiaries from taking issue with how a state determines which providers are qualified to be in the health care program.
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The federal government is restoring funding for Texas’ publicly funded women’s health programs, bringing as much as $350 million into state coffers and…
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The Trump administration has agreed to give roughly $350 million over five years to Healthy Texas Women, a state family-planning program that excludes...
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Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas have been told they can no longer receive charitable donations directly from state employee paychecks.
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The organization says it is leaving the federal family planning program because of rule changes that prohibit its grantees from providing or referring most patients for abortion.
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Dr. Leana Wen is no stranger to working under pressure. As an emergency physician, she was charged with making life-or-death decisions about her patients'…