In recent years, the Texas Legislature has mounted an aggressive push to defund Planned Parenthood. The effort reached an impasse last month when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas effort to close many clinics in the state.
Now the women’s health organization has received more good news. Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas has received a $2 million donation to fund birth control to low-income residents, reports New York magazine.
The money will go toward providing IUDs, as well as STD testing for 1,000 women a year over the next three years. The donation comes from the Boone Family Foundation and the Harold Simmons Foundation. The free birth-control program will launch in September.
Colorado recently received a similar multimillion dollar grant to offer free IUDs. The result was a 40 percent drop in teen pregnancy rates and 42 percent decrease in teen abortions.
