Day 15: Texas Family Planning Funding Slashed
Throughout the month of August, The Texas Tribune is featuring 31 ways Texans' lives will change come Sept. 1, the date most bills passed by the Legislature — including the dramatically reduced budget — take effect. Check out our story calendar here.
Day 15: Lawmakers slashed family planning funding by two-thirds. The Department of State Health Services expects about 180,000 Texas women will lose access to birth control and cancer screenings.
Planned Parenthood of Texas Capital Region is fighting a budget battle on two fronts. Not only does it face budget cuts from the state's family planning fund. Its health ...
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Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Laws have consequences.
Erica Bozovich Hart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I assume we increased funding for medicaid and chip and wic and tanf and snap and whatever else the people will need to help care for the children they didn't intend to have? Oh wait.......
Rosalinda Salazar Snuggs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
oh..and they know this..how?
Susan Stella Floyd via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I assume Dan Patrick is going to step up and adopt all of these unwanted children.
Denise Allen Mitchell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
20,000 more children with no healthcare and poor education.
Joe Estep via Texas Tribune on Facebook
so that´s where babies come from?!¡?
Stephanie Robinson Borgman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Save pennies now and spend dollars later. Rather short-sighted when lives are in the balance.
Katie Plass via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The WHP does not provide for a mammography or a follow up after an irregular pap result. Maybe the DSHS family planning programs do.
Katie Plass via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And why are they called 'family planning services' and not 'women's health services'?
Karen Hawkins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Katie, probably because if you get cervical cancer or STDs due to lack of available health screening, it effects your ability to plan a family.
Bea McGuire via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Makes you wonder how Rick Perry could possibly see any further than the Presidential election when he can't see that taking away birth control for nearly 180,000 women will lead to a bunch of unwanted pregnancies. Maybe he's never heard the expression, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Karen Hawkins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He's not doing this to manage the Texas budget. This is all pandering to the right wing. Besides, they only care about life before conception. After conception, they could care less about quality of life, hence the pathetic education system in Texas (49th out of 50), high school drop out rate 25%, the horrible rate of child and women in poverty (1 in 4) and only 1 in 5 children covered by insurance. I could go on and on.
C Baker
That's the problem with Dan Patrick...he has tunnel vision.
He doesn't understand that women's healthcare is not the same as abortion.
In this day and time with the economy in the condition it's in, how many women can afford the extra $60-$70 per month to buy birth control, much less a full exam? Reality is that they don't even see a Dr. when they're sick...
Which will they choose, food or birth control?
This is a travesty for women's healthcare in Texas.