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Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) will close two of its Houston facilities — one of which was formerly the largest abortion facility in the US — at the end of September in an organization restructuring that is partly due to increased expenses and workforce shortages.
Houston Public Media reported July 25 that PPGC will close its Prevention Park and its Southwest facilities, leaving four other area facilities in operation.
Planned Parenthood stopped committing surgical abortions in Texas after a pro-life law took effect in 2022; however, when Prevention Park was opened in 2010, a CHRON report at the time described the seven-story building as the largest abortion facility in the nation. The outlet reported that the 78,000-square-foot building was chosen for its “central location.” Its opening sparked backlash from pro-lifers who “accused leaders of moving to a predominantly Hispanic and black area to target women of color for abortions,” the article said.
In an X post celebrating the closure, Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins referred to the location as the “infamous Houston mega abortion facility, formerly the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere.”
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas will acquire and manage the operations of the remaining Houston-based facilities, according to a July 25 report from CHRON. The outlet noted that the change moves the Texas facilities out of the Gulf Coast umbrella and leaves two Louisiana facilities under that jurisdiction.
The outlet also reported that a Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast spokesperson attributed the reorganization in part to “the decades of relentless, coordinated political attacks unique to Planned Parenthood, including abortion bans and other legal restrictions on our services, Medicaid exclusion, targeted litigation, and systemic removal from critical public funding streams for non-abortion care.”
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas recently closed its facility in Tyler, Texas, as CatholicVote previously reported, and intends to move to “telehealth” services in the region.
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