Texas just cut funding for the reproductive health care of 130,000 people in a move to de-fund Planned Parenthood here

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Reproductive rights are being dismantled at an alarming rate here in Texas. Can Amy Poehler do a segment about that on SNL? Can Jon Stewart do one on the Daily Show? Can we get some national media coverage of this? PLEASE!

Unless some last-minute agreement is brokered, the program, which receives $9 in federal funds for every $1 in state funds, will be either phased out or cut off by the end of March. At least 130,000 poor Texas women will lose access to cancer screenings, well-woman exams and contraception.

Republican lawmakers worked overtime last legislative session to design language that would keep any Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics from receiving state family planning and women’s health dollars, despite the fact that taxpayer-funded clinics may not perform abortions. They got the backing of Abbott, who said their efforts were legal, and gave the state’s health commissioner the go-ahead to implement the new language.

But when Texas was faced with renewing the Women’s Health Program this year, officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the state’s plans violated the Social Security Act. They gave the program a three-month extension, but said they had no intention of renewing if Planned Parenthood, which provides 44 percent of the program’s services, was blacklisted.

The stalemate appears unbreakable — Republican lawmakers have made clear they’d rather forgo the program and the federal money than allow Planned Parenthood to participate. 

[NB: The reality is that more than cis women are affected by this atrocious, terrible ruling.]

(via ladyatheist)

Source: keepyourbsoutofmyuterus

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    Fuck the Republican Party. They just can’t stand to see poor women receiving help from the government.
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    Quoted from above: At least 130,000 poor...women will lose access
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    Let’s keep this going people. This is insane. No women should be denied reproductive healthcare. Texas needs to stop...
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    would be preferable to living in this fucking backwards state…
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    I feel like it’s fair to annex Texas over this.
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