Without Planned Parenthood, the new Texas Women's Health Program has seen a 23 percent reduction in claims and thousands fewer women enrolled when compared to the same time period last year. The state's explanation? Women just don't want to change doctors.
House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan presided over a hearing called to assess the "war on poverty." But with a liberal nun on the witness panel, it became a war on religion.
This is the first year the program has operated without Planned Parenthood—which was kicked out of the Medicaid Women's Health Program last year—and entirely on the state's dime, without federal assistance.
Attorneys for the State of Indiana have finally agreed to stop trying to lift a temporary injunction blocking a law designed to defund Planned Parenthood.
This week, Virginia Johnson, half of the pioneering sex research team Masters and Johnson, died; it was reported that HPV vaccination rates have stalled; and new research said smoking during pregnancy causes behavioral issues in kids.
