TW for abortion“Don’t perform abortions and you get the money”: Texas attempts to defund Planned Par

TW for abortion“Don’t perform abortions and you get the money”: Texas attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, againAnti-choice legislators want to cut the healthcare provider’s funding for cancer screenings, putting women at risk“Well, January isn’t over yet and the Texas legislature has been in session for less than three weeks, but anti-choice lawmakers in the Lone Star state have already launched another major attack on women’s healthcare. This week, the Texas Senate filed its first-draft budget for the 2015 session, which proposes a new tiered funding system for breast and cervical cancer screenings that would effectively end funding to Planned Parenthood. Surprise, surprise.The budget draft, filed on Tuesday, would reallocate state funds for cancer screenings to give top priority to community health clinics (state, county and local) as well as federally qualified health centers, such as Baylor College of Medicine clinics. Second-tier providers would include “non-public entities” such as Planned Parenthood, which provide comprehensive family planning care in addition to cancer screenings.“There are many members that feel very strongly that the facilities that receive that funding should not be facilities that are performing abortions, so the answer is: Don’t perform abortions and you get the money,” Nelson said. “I get it, but it’s also important that we have enough entities that provide services to women so that they can receive those services and that’s my goal.”Counterpoint: That is neither Nelson’s goal, nor the goal of her anti-choice colleagues who have already made a point of attempting to defund Planned Parenthood at any cost — even when that means losing federal funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program, the state’s publicly funded family planning network. In 2011, the federal government provided $39 million for the program, which was cut the following year when Texas banned Planned Parenthood from participating. The state ultimately cut $70 million from the Women’s Health Program, which the Austin-American Statesman estimates affected 284,000 low-income women.”Read the full piece hereWhat happens when reproductive health care is limited? WOMEN DIE. Republicans Are Killing Women: US Maternal Death Rate Climbs; Female Deaths Rise In GOP CountiesCURRENT MOOD: LET’S MESS WITH TEXASAre you in the U.S. and registered to vote? If not, register now, it takes a few minutes for womens’ lives. http://www.vote411.org. This way you’ll be qualified to vote these misogynists out the next chance you get. -- source link

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