Call Greg Abbott to voice your disgust at his attempts to take healthcare away from thousands of women and men who rely on Planned Parenthood for preventive care!
“He is sending in people from the state to try to find anything that will provide an excuse to terminate Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid contract. But what they will find is professional, compassionate and quality healthcare provided by Planned Parenthood. We must not sit idly by, while Gov. Abbott and his people play politics with women’s health!” (WOW Dems)
“Republican state leaders, who vehemently oppose abortion, have worked for years to curb taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood — despite the fact that its clinics may not receive such funding if they perform the procedure.
Monday’s decision means even Planned Parenthood clinics that only provide well-woman care, like cancer screenings, pregnancy tests and birth control, will also be cut out of receiving dollars from Medicaid, the joint state-federal insurer of the poor.
The vast majority of Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas comes from the federal government. Texas spent just $310,000 from its own coffers on the women’s health organization in 2015, but it also dispersed $2.8 million in federal dollars to those clinics.” Read more at Texas Tribune