On Sept. 30, Planned Parenthood’s Gulf Coast branch in Houston, which ran the organization’s largest clinic in the country, shuttered to merge with another affiliate.
Anti-abortion groups celebrated this shutdown, saying they were one step closer to pushing the health care provider from the state and, eventually, the nation.
Officials with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast said the move — which involved closing down two Houston clinics and passing four others to Planned Parenthood Greater Texas — was a strategy to remain in Texas…