Planned Parenthood?

[lycos679]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

The state didn't create any clinics. Maybe you should read up some more on it before commenting.

Looks like this might backfire on TX.

"About a year after Texas slashed its family-planning budget by two-thirds, with 50 clinics shutting down as a result, the Texas Policy Evaluation Project surveyed 300 pregnant women seeking an abortion in Texas. Nearly half said they were "unable to access the birth control that they wanted to use" in the three months before they became pregnant. Among the reasons: cost, lack of insurance, inability to find a clinic, and inability get a prescription. The state's health commission says Texas will see nearly 24,000 unplanned births between 2014 and 2015 thanks to these cuts, raising state and federal taxpayer's Medicaid costs by up to $273 million."

"Meanwhile, anti-choice legislators are touting these cuts as a way to wipe out the "abortion industry," but it turns out none of the 53 clinics that closed since September 2011 were providing abortions to begin with. None of the Planned Parenthood clinics formerly involved with the Women's Health Program provided abortions, either—Texas has never allowed abortion clinics to participate in WHP. And under the Hyde Amendment, public health providers can't use federal funding to administer abortions, anyway. "Ironically, this whole conversation is about abortion services, and yet clinics providing abortions in this state were untouched by these cuts," says Wheat."

Charts: This Is What Happens When You Defund Planned Parenthood | Mother Jones

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

The state didn't create any clinics. Maybe you should read up some more on it before commenting.

Well, what's with this network that you're talking about then? You are my source for this info.

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Texas created a woman's health network which provides the needed services EXCEPT abortion.
And we did it without Fed dollars. Going on the second year now.
You should be happy that Texas is not spending Fed money.

[HappyTexan]

This thread is about post birth abortions and PP's supposed endorsement.

If you want to discuss Texas defunding of PP then start a new thread.
I was just commenting that Texas doesn't care anymore what PP does because we defunded it.
PP can do whatever they want.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

This thread is about post birth abortions and PP's supposed endorsement.

If you want to discuss Texas defunding of PP then start a new thread.
I was just commenting that Texas doesn't care anymore what PP does because we defunded it.
PP can do whatever they want.

That's funny! YOU brought it up.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by 70Ford

Common sense shouldn't have to be legislated. Then again, some people are idiots. Don't think so? Cool, grab a protest sign with me and lets go protest at some soldier's funeral. See? Idiots. You have to protect them from themselves. What? Polio? It paralyzes you? You don't say? Who cares? I want to see my kid paralyzed for life. See? Idiots.

The argument wasn't that vaccines aren't a good thing but rather that those who argue that medical decisions should strictly be left between the doctor and the individual rarely actually believe that.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by gibbsnm

It never ceases to amaze me how many conservatives claim they don't want the government telling them how to live their lives. But when it comes to what a woman does with her own body (and yes, a fetus is part of the woman's body until it can viably survive on its own),

Again the video and the discussion is about a time when the fetus could survive outside of the womb.