Study: Women to Lose Care if State Nixes Planned Parenthood
Women's access to affordable health care will be reduced if the state follows through with its plan to eschew federal funding for the Women’s Health Program and create a state program instead, according to a new study from George Washington University.
The study, a follow-up to a May report from the university on Texas women's health, examines the impact of excluding Planned Parenthood from the state Women’s Health Program in Bexar, Dallas, Hidalgo, Lubbock and Midland counties.
The Women’s Health Program operates under a Medicaid waiver and serves more than 100,000 low-income women. Starting ...
Comments (9)
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
and just think of all the Republican college kids who'll contract more STDs because of stupid Texas not embracing Planned Parenthood. Golly, what will all the abstinence only folks do when their kids come home with gonorrhea!
donald baker
What will happen is the state will stop paying for infant murder through abortion. The idea that not funding planned parenthood will result in increased STD's is laughable and asinine. What will happen is the lives of babies will be saved.
Greg Ellis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where there is demand there will quickly follow supply. Giving money to someone other than Planned Parenthood will not harm the State's ability to provide health care.
Adele Roberson
http://www.upworthy.com/hey-look-its-a-map-of-inequality-thats-neat-not-the-inequality-part-the-map-part?c=upw1
For me to again realize how vicious Republicans can be, scares me.These seemingly religious people, who spend their lives looking down their noses at the rest of us are some of the most dishonorable people on earth. I was discussing this topic with a friend recently . she said she would send me a link to a map to prove my point. See above link and know that the purple areas are where there is a death sentence for people who are Gay. The governments of the purple colored countries get a very large amount of money from Republicans in the US for just this purpose of killing Gay people. It seems that the Republicans cannot kill Gays in the US so they get Gays killed elsehwere.
This is mind boggling to a decent person. Simply mindboggling.
Rachel Maddow talked this issue about year ago, I did not know that it was so widespread. R M said at the time that these so called "charities" in the US were dozens of Republican Congressmen who supported these countries who pronounced death sentences on Gay men and women.For that explicit reason!
I fear what is happening in this country. These crazies have such a strong hold on our laws and governments, both state and federal, if they get away with their sick ideas we will all suffer.
Adele Roberson
message (below from Donald Baker)
What will happen is the state will stop paying for infant murder through abortion.
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You, Sir.. please read my message below and then please tell us all why you mention murder in your case and then commit murder in my case.
Also, do you remember a few months back when Texas decided it would not longer spend money on Pre-mees? FYI - children born before completing a nine month term. Texas said they always cost too much money to treat and so would no longer do so. . You call abortion murder. Yet you will leave a Pre-Mee to die. That is an abhorrent thing to do - even for Republicans.
Ashly Schilling via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Greg Ellis, Please read this article :http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1207920 . There is no money to follow demand - this is simply about dismantling the single largest provider of women's healthcare needs because their affiliate clinics (that do not receive ANY government funding) perform surgical procedures that includes abortion, which is a fundamental right under the constitution (whether we like it or not).
Adele Roberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Democrats have to get themselves to the voting booths. Getting off the couch to do your civic duty should not be impossible. One thing one can say about Republicans is that they will get to the voting booth if they have to crawl all the way on their knees.
It is so discouraging here in Texas. Our lives have so taken for the worse here in the last twenty years. Corruption, greed, larceny, a disgusting faux religionosity,, have taken over our politics and only about eighteen percent of the people vote. Sometimes only eight percent. Last time - ten percent. It is a crying shame.
Adele Roberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We get the government we deserve... and if we do not vote we should not complain. If you think Republicans care about the citizens in this state you have not been paying attention to what is happening here.
David Spratt
Do not worry,,, once Obama Care kicks in fully there will not be enough Doctors to go around anyway. It will not be profitable to obtain a medical degree and open a practice when the government controls how much you can charge. People that have medical insurance will be priced out as the amounts paid by those who pay for their insurance are increased to subsidize government plans.
We already pay huge sums to subsidize " Free Healthcare" now.
Attacking Conservatives for opposing abortion and claiming the possess pseudo religious values is ridiculous. As many abortions that take place has anyone ever considered what the potential of these " Masses of Tissue" might have been?
How many Nobel Prize winners have been aborted ? Not that the prize means much anymore since both Barak Obama and Al Gore have been " Winners."
Has the child that held the cure for cancer been aborted yet ,,,, or maybe next week or next month?
How about if Steve Jobs or Bill Gates had have been aborted? Two people that have changed the world.
What if Abortion had always been legal, acceptable and highly promoted? Thomas Edison , Issac Newton, Galileo, Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, George Washington, Jefferson , Madison may have never been born.
What are the odds of the number of our Founding Fathers coming together, being in the right place at the right time , in the exact numbers needed to form our Union if abortion had have been the norm back then?
The next child you abort may have been able to play a vital role in the survival or betterment of the Human race. Then again I guess the logic may be that there are so many perhaps the one we all need to come along and save us all might just survive given the odds.
For all those whom are religious and believe in the second coming . If Christ came back to earth in the same manner as the first time around ,,,,,, would he survive or would he also be aborted????
Unintended consequences are always unseen.