The Baker Institute is launching a new podcast exploring the policy issues shaping life in Texas. “Texas Briefing” will bring expert hosts and guests together to untangle issues in health, the economy, climate resilience, and more to understand how state- and local-level policy challenges are impacting communities from the Panhandle to the Gulf Coast.
The podcast is organized into topical miniseries, each covering a single broad issue in depth. Our first miniseries, hosted by Center for Health Policy senior fellow Elena Marks, explores issues in reproductive health care.
In the first episode, Eleanor Klibanoff, the law and politics reporter and formerly the women’s health reporter at The Texas Tribune, joins Marks to discuss Senate Bill 31, dubbed the Life of the Mother Act, which aims to clarify when doctors can perform emergency abortions.
The second episode of the miniseries examines teens’ access to contraceptive care. In Texas, which has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country, teens must have parental consent to obtain methods of highly effective birth control like intrauterine devices and contraceptive pills, implants, and injections. Kari White, a nonresident fellow and the executive and scientific director at Resound Research for Reproductive Health, joins Marks to lay out the case for removing parental consent requirements for contraception.
The final episode in this series will be released on June 12 and features a conversation between Marks and Alex Morin, a managing director at Manatt Health, on how Texas’ strict abortion ban is impacting the state’s OB-GYN workforce pipeline.
You can listen and subscribe to “Texas Briefing” on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
