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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 Takes Texas Lawsuit to Court

In Thursday's hearing, Planned Parenthood argued that its exclusion from the WHP would have a significant negative impact on low-income Texans' access to health care; in its defense, the state argued that any negative impact was irrelevant to the case.

In Texas, the Numbers Reveal Just How Dire Things Will Be for Medicaid Patients Without Planned Parenthood

If Texas excludes Planned Parenthood from participating in its new state-funded "Texas Women's Health Program," 1,748 clients in one city alone--Austin--will have to find new health care providers. That means existing providers, some of which currently see just one or two patients a year, will have to take on about 60 new patients each, even as they deal with a 66 percent cut in overall family planning funding.