Biological organization celebrates closure of 2 Houston family planning facilities

Exclusive: A biological organization is celebrating a “huge victory” after Planned Parenthood announced its two facilities in Houston, Texas, will be announced this fall as Republican lawmakers continue to target the organization.

Shawn Carney, CEO and Founder of Houston Residents’ Life, expressed “personal and professional elation” during the facility’s closure, including the 78,000-square-foot clinic, in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ digital numbers, which he said was the facility’s clinic. The largest abortion facility In the Western Hemisphere.

“This is huge news for the biological movement and shows where family planning is going, and it’s down,” Carney said.

Planned Parenthood Bay Coast (which operates six clinics in the Houston area and two clinics in Louisiana) will close its Prevention Park and Southwest Center on Sept. 30, while other Houston facilities will be acquired by the organization’s largest Texas branch.

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Here are several closures of family planning facilities in various states, including New York, and the organization is selling its only Manhattan Health Center building for $39 million.

Abortion restrictions are available in facilities in Republican-led states. Including Texasalso forced to stop the process after a 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe V. Wade and sent the decision on abortion back to the states.

“Now, they’re closing the largest abortion facility in the world,” Carney said. “Their flagship store. They’re very proud of it in Houston, Texas. They finally closed it, which is incredible.”

The company sees rising costs, shortages of staffing and low reimbursement rates as reasons for closing two Houston facilities. In recent years, Republican officials have tried again to shut down family planning, even after nearly all abortions were banned under Texas law.

this Trump administration Trying to cut funding to family planning, which could lead to additional facilities closures. A provision in the Republican-backed bill would end a year of Medicaid payments to abortion providers who received more than $800,000 from the program in 2023.

The judge earlier this week approved a preliminary injunction that prevented the government from cutting Medicaid payments to program parent organization members, which did not provide abortions or did not meet the threshold for at least $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursement in a given year.

Planned Parenthood Coast will close its prevention park and Southwest Center on September 30. (Getty Image)

Carney said 40 days of life have prayed and held a vigil Huge Houston official Since 2006.

“Countless people went out and offered other options. We had biological buses outside to do ultrasounds for free. Saved a lot of lives, but honestly it seems they were giants, whether we were giants, if we were David, he said,” he added, “begotiable facilities even offered late miscarriages at some point. “They just have to be open all the time and always win.”

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Carney described its closure as a “huge victory” against the biological movement and said it represents “one of the biggest victories we have since Roev. Wade’s overthrow.

“Family planning has been very heavy in DC, which is a weakness for biological exercise. But once [the court] Send it back to the United States, and it sends it back to the strongest place in the biological movement, namely the grassroots level. ” he said.

The company sees rising costs, understaffing and low reimbursement rates as the basis for closure of both facilities. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

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Carney said the closures of the two Houston facilities show that “more than anything else” than “than anything else”,” Carney added that Planned Parenthood is not a “monster that cannot be gone.”

“They are very, very vulnerable. When you look at the closure of New York and the closure of Houston, that’s what it means. All the nonsense about other services and serving women and helping low-income women. Because when you take abortion or offer alternatives, they close and they close the most prosperous places.”