Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Helping or Hurting Women?

By Elizabeth Hale After the Lubbock Planned Parenthood closed in 2014, crisis pregnancy centers became the only local option for women dealing with unplanned pregnancies. Whether they offer the care women need remains to be seen. Angela Martinez, the former Lubbock Planned Parenthood managing director, said that while crisis pregnancy centers such as Heartline and Parkridge can provide […]

Weekly Poll: Would You Go to Planned Parenthood?

“Planned Parenthood Lubbock” is one of the most common search terms that lead people to The Hub@TTU, sending visitors to an article about two local Planned Parenthood locations that closed in 2013. The Planned Parenthood locations in Lubbock offered STI/STD testing and treatment, cancer and preventative screenings, contraception and abortions. When Generation Healthcare acquired Planned Parenthood […]

STI Stigma: Here To Stay

By Audra Coffman, Halima Fasasi and Alyssa Herzog Sexually transmitted infections are no dinner-table topic, but statistically speaking, you probably know many people who have them. There are 110 million STIs in the U.S.,  both existing and new cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty million new infections occur each year, about half […]

Lubbock Planned Parenthood Closed

Lubbock women will now have to go elsewhere to access abortion services. Both Lubbock Planned Parenthood locations, including the Women’s Health Center, have closed down as a result of a new Texas law. Generation Healthcare, a non-profit, pro-adoption group, bought out both of the Planned Parenthood facilities in Lubbock in late October in what was […]