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Planned Parenthood South Texas launches fund for healthcare on 2nd anniversary of Dobbs ruling
SAN ANTONIO – Planned Parenthood of South Texas announced it is starting a fund to help people without insurance receive healthcare services. Laura Terrill, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood South Texas, said The Fanny Fund will help women and men access essential care and help pay for the services they need. The fund, which Terrill said costs about six figures, will underwrite vouchers for community partners and nonprofit organizations. “These vouchers will allow clients to come to us for essential healthcare,” Terrill said. • None Reproductive health care: Reproductive...
Abortion funds fight on in Texas, opponents plan new fronts two years after Dobbs decision
Reverend Erika Ferguson still has the text message from three years ago saved on her phone. She’d been counseling a young girl who wasn’t sure whether she wanted an abortion when Senate Bill 8 went into effect in 2021. The law is one of three overlapping statutes in Texas that together ban abortion in all cases except to preserve the life of the mother. The girl didn’t know how to get a bus across town, let alone fly out of state for an abortion, Ferguson told The Nation. The reverend...