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Here's an interesting article about the cuts to rural women's health clinics in Texas Not nearly as scintillating as turning this discussion into a rant about "illegals", but it gives a good picture of how the law in Texas is impacting women.
During the 2011 session of the Texas Legislature, politicians had slashed the state’s family-planning budget by two-thirds. The remaining money was doled out based on a restrictive funding formula that state officials designed specifically to deny Planned Parenthood money. But in a surprise move, the formula also defunded family-planning clinics—like those run by Hill Country Community Action—that had no connection to Planned Parenthood. Family- planning providers waited months to learn whether the state would continue to fund them. Ball’s agency limped along on a three-month financial extension, causing the agency to close clinics in Lampasas and Rockdale in a bid to keep its other four clinics open and financially stable. The lancing blow came in May 2012, when Hill Country Community Action learned that it had permanently lost most of its funding from the state. In a further affront, the decision came so late that Ball had only six weeks to shutter operations. Now she had to swiftly close her remaining clinics in San Saba, Hillsboro, Cameron and Copperas Cove.
As I prepared to leave San Saba, I found Ball in her office, packing a box with photos of her six grandchildren. She gave me a sheaf of papers from her desk listing the procedures performed by her clinics in the previous nine months. All were now unavailable: 1,500 pregnancy tests, 118 syphilis tests, 744 pap smears, 618 Depo Provera injections, 514 annual medical exams… As I flipped through the papers, I heard McDuff on the phone, calmly referring former clients to clinics in other regions. When I left, each of my hosts was on a different line, helping women they had served for years find somewhere else to go.
Yes, of course it's wonderful to deny women health care because if they don't receive contraceptive services they might get pregnant and give up their baby for adoption, let's just turn women into breeders who can spit out babies for the adoption market, lot's of money to be made for "non-profit" private adoption agencies since the average 'price' for a healthy white infant is $35,000
Memo: PP is far from the only place where contraceptives are available. And illegitimacy (the surest route to poverty and, hence, Medicaid) is a cultural issue. How interesting, too, that after decades of sex education in schools, we're churning out people who still don't know where babies come from.
I went to catholic schools. They don't teach sex education. Guess how many in my graduation class were pregnant
I went to a catholic school and zero in my graduating class were pregnant.
How do you know. They could only have been a few months along lol
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