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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 03:46 PM Jul 2013

Planned Parenthood To Close Three Texas Clinics

Planned Parenthood on Wednesday informed staff at three of its facilities in Texas that they would be closing, according to people familiar with the decision.

The three clinics are located in Bryan, Huntsville and Lufkin, Texas. They are closing in response to a new package of abortion restrictions signed into law on Thursday and funding cuts to Texas' Women's Health Program that were passed by the Texas state legislature in 2011. Out of the three Planned Parenthood clinics that are closing, only the Bryan clinic performs abortions.

“In recent years, Texas politicians have created an increasingly hostile environment for providers of reproductive health care in underserved communities. Texans with little or no access to health care services have been deeply affected by state budget cuts to programs provided by Planned Parenthood health centers and dozens of others that provided lifesaving cancer screenings, well-woman exams and birth control," said Melaney A. Linton, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast."

“The combined impact of years of budget cuts to women’s health care services and the dismantling of the successful Women’s Health Program will take affordable, preventive health care options away from women in Bryan, Lufkin and Huntsville — just as these policies have taken health care away from an estimated 130,000 others — when Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is forced to close these family planning health centers at the end of August," she said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/planned-parenthood-texas-_n_3617299.html

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Planned Parenthood To Close Three Texas Clinics (Original Post) cali Jul 2013 OP
you know what's sad? endless posts about the birth of royal baby cali Jul 2013 #1
 

cali

(114,904 posts)
1. you know what's sad? endless posts about the birth of royal baby
Mon Jul 22, 2013, 03:52 PM
Jul 2013

while threads about women's right and health here are ignored.

it's just plain pathetic.

let this sink. who the fuck gives a damn about poor women in Texas when you can bow, scrape and tug your forelock over the birth of some royal baby.

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