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Texas Medical Board director retires after uproar over his Planned Parenthood employment
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Jimmy Blacklock named new chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Justice Jimmy Blacklock, a conservative ally of Gov. Greg Abbott, has been named the new chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
 
As Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht prepares to retire, he reflects on the court he helped change
When Nathan Hecht ran for the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, no Republican had ever been elected to the state’s highest civil court.
 
Rural providers, advocates push Texas Legislature to “rescue” maternal health care system
Now, health care providers, advocates and local leaders are proposing similarly aggressive action to pull the rural maternity care system back from the brink.
 
Maternal deaths surged in Texas in 2020, 2021
The rate of Texas women who died because of pregnancy or childbirth rose sharply in 2020 and 2021 to the highest since the state started tracking maternal deaths in 2013.
 
How an anti-abortion doctor joined Texas’ maternal mortality committee
For the rural community member position, the committee did not choose a candidate, instead advancing the top two choices. The candidate who scored highest on the application rubric was an obstetrics nurse and nursing professor from the Rio Grande Valley; the next highest was Dr. Ingrid Skop, a promi