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Eight people affiliated with Houston-area health clinics accused of providing illegal abortions and operating without licenses were indicted, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Wednesday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/10/08/532893/8-people-affiliated-with-houston-woman-in-illegal-abortion-case-indicted-paxton-says/

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The House is slated to vote on a bill to clarify Texas’ near-total abortion ban Wednesday, after it passed the Senate unanimously last month.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/05/21/521910/proposal-to-clarify-when-texas-doctors-can-perform-life-saving-abortions-faces-critical-vote/

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Texas voters will likely get a chance to decide whether to spend $3 billion in state funds on dementia research after the House preliminarily approved Senate Joint Resolution 3 on Monday.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/04/29/520003/texas-poised-to-ask-voters-to-approve-3-billion-to-study-dementia/

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Federal prosecutors on Friday dismissed charges against a Texas doctor accused of illegally obtaining and sharing patients' health information from Texas Children's Hospital.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2025/01/27/511960/federal-prosecutors-dismiss-criminal-charges-against-former-texas-childrens-hospital-doctor/

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Federal Title X clinics do not require parental consent for birth control — except in Texas, where a lawsuit upended the longstanding program.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2024/04/08/482749/how-texas-teens-lost-the-one-program-that-allowed-birth-control-without-parental-consent/

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