Planned Parenthood

In 2011, the Texas legislature voted to ban medical providers affiliated with organizations that perform abortions from participating in the state-run Women’s Health Program, even if the providers did not perform abortions themselves. At the time, the state’s Women’s Health Program received $9 in federal Medicaid funding for every $1 of state money, and the […]

The 2012 Masters Golf Tournament at the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, which began Thursday, has sparked discussion about sexism and the legal rights of private organizations. Traditionally, the all-male golf club gives membership to the tournament’s corporate sponsors, but for the first time in the club’s history, one those CEOs is a woman.   Gloria […]

A fight over abortion in Texas could lead to a shutdown of a major women’s health care program. Texas’s federally-funded Women’s Health Program serves 130,000 women who don’t meet strict Medicaid eligibility requirements. The program also supports many clinics, including branches of Planned Parenthood. But Republican lawmakers who don’t want Planned Parenthood to get any […]

Later in the week, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill which would repeal the Obama Administration’s health care regulation requiring birth control coverage.  This follows a case in Tacoma, Washington where a federal judge ruled a law which requires pharmacies to offer emergency contraceptives to be unconstitutional. The plaintiff in the case, Kevin […]