Two Houston-Area Planned Parenthood Clinics Announce Closure

By Addie Hovland | Texas Scorecard | July 29, 2025

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has announced the closure of Houston’s Prevention Park and Southwest facilities, which are two of six in the Houston area, on September 30.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas will assume operations of the remaining four Houston locations.

“Every time an abortion facility closes, it’s a powerful reminder that the Pro-Life movement is making progress,” Kimberlyn Schwartz, director of media and communication with Texas Right to Life, told Texas Scorecard.

According to Houston Public Media, the organization’s restructuring is a result of “rising costs, low reimbursement rates, workforce shortages and inadequate public health infrastructure.”

Fox News reports that the Prevention Park facility, a 78,000 square foot structure which opened to the public in 2010, was one of the largest abortion facilities in the Western Hemisphere until it ceased performing abortions after Texas passed laws prohibiting the practice.

During its peak, the clinic killed about 10,000 babies per year, up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. It was also one of the facilities accused of selling aborted baby parts as part of a series of undercover recordings released by pro-life activist David Daleiden.

“Even after Roe was overturned, this facility, located near the University of Houston, became an abortion travel agency: scheduling, paying, and rushing women to take their babies to other states to be killed,” said Schwartz, “Now these doors will close.”

This victory is from the hand of God: Tireless prayers. Faithful advocacy. And hope that one day we would turn the tide.

In 2021, Texas lawmakers passed a “trigger law” that prohibited abortion once the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court did so in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022, at which time Planned Parenthood ceased performing abortions in the state.

Schwartz added that as Texans celebrate the closure of former abortion clinics in the state, the new threats of abortifacient drugs, which can be mailed to Texas from other states, remain.

“Every home and dorm room can be an abortion clinic now, because pills are sold online and brought in from other states and countries,” she said. “We’ll keep fighting. We’ll keep praying. And we’ll keep winning because we know God goes before us.”

Gov. Greg Abbott included additional protections for unborn babies and their mothers on his agenda for the special legislative session, which began July 21.

Several pieces of legislation that would prohibit the use of abortion-inducing drugs have already been filed by Texas House members.

Texas Scorecard reached out to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast for comment regarding why the facilities are closing, but did not receive a reply by publication.

Addie Hovland

Addie Hovland is a journalist for Texas Scorecard. She hails from South Dakota and is passionate about spreading truth.