Health and Fitness

Planned Parenthood Petitions Fifth Circuit to Rehear En Banc Decision Restricting Texas Women’s Access to Health Care

Petition to Court Comes Hours after Testimony to State Health Officials to Protect Access to Care

AUSTIN, TX –(ENEWSPF)–September 6, 2012.  This week, Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas filed a petition to ask the entire Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the State of Texas’s appeal of a preliminary injunction that blocked a rule barring Planned Parenthood from participating in the Women’s Health Program.  On August 21, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit…

Proud member of LION Publishers

Most read stories this week

Take a Survey

ARCHIVES