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Andrea Grimes

Andrea Grimes is a feminist journalist, editor, and podcaster living in Austin, Texas. Her commentaries, investigations, and analyses have appeared in the New York Times, the Texas Observer, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Bitch, Ms. Magazine and Jezebel, among many other publications. You can find her cussing on Twitter as @AndreaGrimes, or drinking a Bloody Mary on a sunny patio, or sometimes both.

Planned Parenthood Patient Sues Texas, Hopes To Continue Seeing Her Chosen Provider

In two new lawsuits in Texas, Planned Parenthood continues its fight against exclusion from providing publicly funded family planning care, arguing that Texas doesn't have the authority to keep it out of the new, state-funded Texas Women's Health Program (TWHP) or to implement the program's "poison pill" clause which would close the TWHP down entirely should a court allow Planned Parenthood back into the program.