Gov. Perry Cut Funds For Women's Health In Texas

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http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140449957/gov-perry-cut-funds-for-womens-health-in-texas


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Only 48 percent of Texans have private health insurance, and more than a quarter of the state's population has no insurance at all, more than any other state. To fill this gap, the state's hospital emergency rooms and dozens of women's health clinics have stepped in to serve the uninsured across Texas.

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Over the past eight years, citing budget constraints, Gov. Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled legislature have dropped hundreds of thousands of mostly poor and working-class Texans from the rolls of government-sponsored insurance like Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. Nearly 6.5 million Texans are now uninsured even though the majority of them have full-time jobs.

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For hundreds of thousands of Texas women and teens between the ages of 13 and 50, the 71 family planning clinics in the state serve as their gateway to health care, and for many of those women, visiting the clinics is the only time they see a nurse practitioner or a doctor.

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This year, the Texas legislature and Gov. Perry cut funding for family planning clinics by two-thirds. Dr. Celia Neavel is director of adolescent health at the People's Community Clinic in East Austin and says it is a devastating blow.
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some stats:

Texas already spends $1.3 billion on teen pregnancies — more than any other state.

In San Antonio alone, unplanned children born to teens would fill 175 kindergarten classrooms each year.

its seems that women and teen girls in Texas are no better off, health wise, then if they lived in Afghanistan

there is a pic of Perry holding up his hand in a victory sign in front of a sign that says Texas Rally for Life

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1. makes me

cry

DEATH PANELS

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/19/us-heart-failure-idUSTRE78I5TJ20110919:grr: