Planned Parenthood Merger About Efficiency, Advocacy
ADDISON — Texas Planned Parenthood advocates have been outspoken about the hits they have taken from state lawmakers in the last year — including major cuts to family-planning financing, a new abortion sonogram law and being booted from a Medicaid health program for poor women.
They have been far quieter about one of their plans to fight back: merging three regional Planned Parenthood branches — North Texas, Austin and Waco — into one $29 million-per-year, 26-clinic mega-organization.
The merger — approved by all three boards Wednesday — will create Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, the eighth-largest affiliate of the nation’s most ubiquitous reproductive health and ...
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Betty DuBose Hamilton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Congratulations to Cecile Richards for her very much needed work.
Sharon Cooper Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Unconditional health care is the name of the game for Planned Parenthood.
gypsy314 ne
No more donations from us.
Anyone but Obama and democrats.
Anya Khan
29 Million and they still want taxpayers to pay for aboriton. Disgusting
Cheryl Gonzales
Isn't that special? The Mengele clinics are planning to butcher out 8500 Texans straight from mother's womb.
Whatever happened to adoption?
a w
@ Anya Khan: Where have you read that Planned Parenthood wants taxpayers to pay for "aboriton?" (I assume you mean ABORTION...) Firstly, the clinics that provide abortions are run separately within the Planned Parenthood organization, so that no tax dollars are received by them. Secondly, the article specifically states: "none of their clinics that received public financing performed abortions." So, I'm curious to know where you're getting your information from. BTW, out of EVERYTHING that PP does, abortions take up only 3%.
@Cheryl Gonzales: Adoption in general is fantastic, but you anti-choicers fail to think of a few things. First of all, adoption is difficult and expensive. I know a couple that were told they were too old (in their late 40s/early 50s), and thus went to Peru to adopt. Secondly, what about all the little black babies? It's a well known fact that white babies get adopted at a far greater rate and speed then black babies, leaving them to grow up and eventually "age out" of the public child care system. What you anti-choicers need to focus on is sex education in the schools and PREVENTING pregnancy.