The Storm Over Women's Health Care Had Been Brewing
In the battle between state leaders and the Obama administration over Texas’ decision to oust health care providers affiliated with abortion clinics from a five-year-old contraception and cancer-screening program, both sides believe they are the victims.
The Obama administration says Texas is violating federal law by limiting where poor women can seek health care, and it announced last week that it was cutting off financing for the Texas Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which does not pay for abortions and received $9 in federal financing for every $1 the state contributed.
Republican elected officials, who are seeking tens of millions ...
Comments (6)
Emily Miller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Plenty of Texas women will be blindsided. But who's thinking about them?
geoff giblert
Are there publicly available audited financial statements from PP in Texas? How could someone like the AG be sure that PP isn't committing fraud with all the funds they receive for Women's Health? Also, why hasn't PP physically partitioned their business to remove all doubt that those funds aren't performing abortions? If that is what the law is, why not comply while you're trying to change it?
Genevieve Van Cleve via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thanks for switching to "high emotions" instead of "drama". Although, still think it's edgy. When non-gender specific issues are spoken of...the first thing used to describe them isn't emotional.
gypsy314 ne
This a ploy from the democrats to keep everyone from focusing on the problem at hand and that is Obama and democrats from destroying America DO YOU WANT TO Chance it again by trust Obama and democrats that now have showed there true colors. The democrats think more of supporting illegal aliens and homosexuals and terrorist then Americans. This is clear if we do not send the Democrats packing America will fall and I mean hard. Then the only hope will be a great battle.
Anyone BUT Obama and democrats!
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bottom line, the GOP want to ban contraceptives.
Tiffany Sparks
Better Obama than a Theocracy where Men are the image of God and women should wear head coverings so God doesn't have to look at them, submit to their husbands in all things because they are cursed to have man rule over them, not speak in churches, and drop child after child in pain and suffering because the Bible said so.
Does everyone forget that we are only two generations away from a time when our great-grandmothers could not vote and were totally dependent on their husbands and unable to defend themselves from tyrants and abusers? Having been a part of the fundy movement in the past, I can tell you that there are a lot of men in Texas who dream of the day when women lose their ungodly independence.