A high-ranking official at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is stepping down after he co-authored a controversial study that found fewer women accessed a Texas family planning program after Planned Parenthood was kicked out in 2013.
Rick Allgeyer, the commission’s director of research, will step down after he faced criticism for authoring the study that was unflattering to the state's women's health program. By excluding Planned Parenthood from the family planning program, lawmakers may have restricted women’s access to long-acting birth control, according to the study's authors.
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