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Imagine all you want. When low-income patients seeking birth-control, paps and cancer screening are turned away, then I guess we'll understand how much Texas honors "life".
Imagine all you want. When low-income patients seeking birth-control, paps and cancer screening are turned away, then I guess we'll understand how much Texas honors "life".
Like I said, the block grant may still provide those services, just no state funded abortion. They can still get them for a price, but not on the taxpayers' dime.
Like I said, the block grant may still provide those services, just no state funded abortion. They can still get them for a price, but not on the taxpayers' dime.
The story says they voted to defund PP, period. There is no reference to funding PP's other services. Texas doesn't trust PP to use the funds for non-abortion services. Regardless of the evidence of the overwhelmingly non-abortion related services that PP provides.
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The Texas Legislature approved a bill Monday that would both compel the state to push the Obama administration to convert Texas’s Medicaid program into a block grant and defund abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.
Regardless, if you vote to take away abortions for the poor, all you're doing is saying, as a society, we only sanction this reproductive choice for rich women, not poor women.
The story says they voted to defund PP, period. There is no reference to funding PP's other services. Texas doesn't trust PP to use the funds for non-abortion services. Regardless of the evidence of the overwhelmingly non-abortion related services that PP provides.
The bolded portion is not a dependant clause.
I'm sure Texas will provide those non-abortion related services from the block grant, probably in a much more efficient manner than a faceless federal bureaucracy like PP.
I'm sure Texas will provide those services from the block grant, probably in a much more efficient manner than a faceless federal bureaucracy like PP.
I very much doubt it.
Regardless, we now agree that the article in no way equivocates on the absolute defunding of PP through medicaid. A deplorable decision that makes zero "sense" from any policy perspective.
Looks like Texas is exercising it's pro-choice option.
Indeed, the choice to spend 100x as much placing these unwanted children in foster homes, or funding their mother's welfare.
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