“Publicly Funded Reproductive Health Care Programs for People with Low Incomes in Texas, 2011-2021,” New Brief

TxPEP has published a new brief entitled “Publicly Funded Reproductive Health Care Programs for People with Low Incomes in Texas, 2011-2021.” The brief narrates the story of changes to reproductive health care funding and services in Texas beginning in 2011. Ten years later, Texans with low incomes still face a fragmented and ever-shifting safety net for family planning services. 

The brief concludes with strategies for strengthening family planning services for Texans with low incomes, including expanding Medicaid, allowing all specialized family planning providers to participate in state family planning programs, allowing minor teens to obtain confidential services in all programs, ensuring funding for the Family Planning Program meets clients’ service needs and expanding Healthy Texas Women to include men.