Family Planning & Women’s Health

Texas has a large unmet need for affordable family planning services: roughly 2 million Texas women need publicly funded family planning, and in 2019, our key state family planning programs served 291,000 Texans.

Texas made several ill-advised and politically motivated decisions that have reduced access to critical services. The family planning safety net in Texas is still diminished and recovering from:

• dramatic budget cuts in 2011;
• the closure of more than 80 clinics;
• the exclusion of Planned Parenthood, which had been the state’s largest family planning provider;
• large and failed grants made to an unqualified provider now under investigation; and 
• the constant upheaval of programs.