I recall the rapturous celebration surrounding the 2010 grand opening of the Houston, TX Planned Parenthood Prevention Park Health Center. From the all-female architecture firm that designed the facility, to the green energy features and the updated technology, this center, which would house 200 employees, was touted as the cutting-edge flagship for Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) work in the Southeast. At that time, the PPFA spokesperson Rochelle Tafolla touted the skyline views, conference rooms for board meetings, training rooms, and space for tony receptions for donors. Tafolla was especially chuffed about the enclosed parking facility, which allowed her and the staff to now avoid those icky anti-abortion protestors who used to be across the street from their old location.
This glowing feature article from 2010 reflects the viewpoint of that time as well as the spirit of the age.
The new Planned Parenthood Prevention Park stands as the largest Planned Parenthood facility in the nation, and a beacon of progressive healthcare along the Gulf Freeway. The official grand opening of the facility — that will function as the headquarters of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas — is Thursday at 11 a..m. with Mayor Annise Parker scheduled to appear.
Having migrated from its former dank facility in a desolate corner of Midtown, Planned Parenthood now possesses the opportunity to treat nearly double the number of patients and consolidate administrative activities.
"It's so much more modern and welcoming than the old location," Planned Parenthood's Rochelle Tafolla says of the $16.7 million facility. The new location was a preexisting, brutalist concrete building occupied by Sterling Bank.
Those in the pro-life movement also remember, and now they celebrate what a difference 15 years, a 2022 Supreme Court decision returning matters of abortion to the states to decide, and a recent Congressional rescission vote to defund PPFA have made. Fox News exclusively spoke with 40 Days for Life founder Shawn Carney about the closure of PPFA's Prevention Park facility in Houston.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, 40 Days for Life CEO and founder Shawn Carney, a Houston resident, expressed "both personal and professional elation" at the shuttering of the facilities, including the 78,000-square-foot clinic that he said was the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere.
"This is massive news for the pro-life movement and shows the direction that Planned Parenthood is going, which is down," Carney said.
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast — which runs six clinics in the Houston area and two in Louisiana — will close its Prevention Park and Southwest centers on Sept. 30, while the other Houston facilities will be acquired by the organization's largest Texas affiliate.
Of course, PPFA is spinning it as an expansion of its Dallas-area arm and a restructuring. What it is is yet another nail in their coffin.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is celebrating its 90th birthday and expanding to the southeast. Founded in 1935, the Dallas-based organization will take over the operations of four Houston-area Planned Parenthood clinics later this fall.
PPGT already operates 18 health centers throughout the state, with 12 based in DFW and others in El Paso, Austin, Waco, Paris, and more. The expansion, which will take effect in October, will add four clinics and programming in the Houston area (the Northville, Northwest, Spring, and Stafford locations) to the organization’s operations. The Houston clinics are currently run by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which operates as an independent nonprofit. PPGC operated six clinics in Houston and others in Louisiana, but now will close two Houston-area clinics and reduce staff before transferring the operations of its remaining four clinics in Houston to PPGT.
PPFA still spinning about cancer and STD screenings, and birth control is precious. But in the midst of their spinning, they at least reveal some germs of the truth.
What’s behind the restructuring? Federal and state policies connected to outlawing abortion have blocked much government funding, including Medicaid, cancer screening grants, and the federal family planning program from Planned Parenthood clinics, creating a significant funding gap that has to be recouped via private donations.
BOOM. Amazing how much PPFA sucked off the government teat of Medicaid and grant funding.
What no one is asking is “why would @ppfa need to close?”
— RC (@Pedlar7) July 25, 2025
For decades they’ve cited the stat that 97% of their services AREN’T abortions. Why are they forced to shut down if only 3% of their business has been lost to Roe being overturned? https://t.co/g87CYQeEXv
The restructuring will enable PPGT to continue serving as many patients as it can.
“Texas has the highest number of uninsured residents in the U.S. When it comes to time-sensitive birth control, STI and UTI treatment, cancer screenings, and other sexual healthcare, Planned Parenthood is proud to be an essential part of Texas’ medical safety net,” says Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas President & CEO Ken Lambrecht. “While this is a challenging time for nonprofit healthcare networks, we are grateful for the incredible community support that enables Planned Parenthood to be a trusted resource for healthcare for Texans regardless of insurance status, income level, or who they love.”
Spare us with the propaganda. Texas passed its heartbeat law in 2021, and Dobbs was decided in 2022. So that means PPFA supposedly has not been able to perform abortions in the state to the degree it was previously allowed. Now that it will no longer be propped up by Medicaid and government grant funding, it appears private donations haven't been able to bridge that gap. Which begs the question: Why is PPFA still standing?
40 Days for Life's Carney addressed this.
Carney said 40 Days for Life has prayed and held vigils outside the Houston mega-facility since 2006.
"Countless people have gone out, offered alternatives. We've had pro-life buses outside to do free ultrasounds. There have been so many lives saved, but to be honest, it just seemed like they were Goliath and it didn't matter if we were David," he said, adding that the "behemoth" facility even provided late-term abortions at one point. "They were just going to always be open and always be victorious."
Congress cosplayed David, precipitating the demise of this Goliath of a PPFA facility. The hope and prayer is that this will portend the final blow that kneecaps the entire organization.
As RedState reported, another PPFA facility in Tyler, Texas, announced its closure. PPFA will also be fighting a lawsuit by the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey for their deceptive and dangerous promotion of Mifepristone, the abortion pill. PPFA was also heavily into the distribution of gender-affirming care and puberty blockers, but thanks to the Trump administration's restrictions on government funding for this madness, the organization has suffered another blow to its coffers. So many indications that PPFA is bleeding out, especially since it can no longer rely on government funding to staunch the flow.
Read More: MO AG Andrew Bailey Targets Planned Parenthood for Their Messaging on the Abortion Pill
Another Blow to Planned Parenthood: Gender-Affirming Care Clinics Are Dropping Like Flies
But Texas is still a red state. Another pivotal sign of PPFA's erosion is that their facilities in blue states are also dying on the vine. On Thursday, PPFA announced it would be closing FIVE facilities in Central and Northern California. California has codified the right to abortion in its constitution, but apparently this hasn't been enough to shore up the abortion provider. Guess abortion is not as important to the citizens of California as Governor Gavin Newsom and his ilk made it out to be.
President Donald Trump’s budget cuts to Medicaid have forced Planned Parenthood Mar Monte to shutter five clinics across Northern California and the Central Coast, including one in South San Francisco, the group said Thursday.
The GOP-led federal spending bill that Trump signed into law earlier this month eliminated federal Medicaid funding for any type of medical care to organizations that perform abortions.
Mar Monte is the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the country, with health care centers from Bakersfield, the Bay Area, Stockton and Sacramento. The now-shuttered facilities also include San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Gilroy and Madera.
40 Days for Life's Carney spoke truth to power: the pro-life movement works best at the grassroots level. Now that PPFA is no longer heavily financed by D.C., pro-life activists and pregnancy resource centers have a fighting chance to not just combat the false narrative of "reproductive care" PPFA peddles, but to amplify and affirm a culture of life.
The closure of the two Houston facilities shows "more than anything else" that "the pro-life movement is built for a post-Roe America," Carney said, adding that Planned Parenthood is not a "monster that can't go away."
"They are very, very vulnerable. When you look at the New York closing and the Houston closing, this is what that represents. All the nonsense about other services and serving women and helping low-income women. Because when you take away abortions or you offer alternatives, they close, and they close their most prosperous locations," he said.
Both grassroots and legislative pressure still need to be applied, but decoupling government funding from PPFA appears to have been just enough to ensure the organization's destruction.
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