Balquinta v. Texas Department of State Health Services

Challenge in state court to Texas rule prohibiting Planned Parenthood affiliates and other entities affiliated with abortion providers from participating in Texas’ Medicaid Women’s Health Program as violating state law. Current Status: In December 2012, a state district court denied plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order. A hearing is scheduled for January 11. (See the rule here.)

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Repro Health Watch — an exciting new edition of the Women’s Health Policy Report — compiles and distributes media coverage of proposed and enacted state laws and ballot initiatives affecting women's access to comprehensive reproductive health care, as well as litigation in response to those provisions.