If I ever wore either t-shirts or yellow, I would want this.

Ready for a post about some stupid political shit going on in Texas?

Women, children last

An irrational, secretive redistribution of millions of dollars robs Texas' poorest women of health care

It's not as if they weren't doing their job. In a state with the nation's highest number of uninsured residents, family planning clinics across Texas for years have offered women preventive medicine, including cancer screening, contraception and gynecological, prenatal and postpartum care.

This winter, however, these providers have been slammed by laws quietly crafted last spring. In riders that required no public discussion, Texas legislators arranged to shift $5 million of the federal money on which these clinics rely to a different sort of service: programs "for women seeking alternatives to abortion focused on pregnancy support services that promote childbirth." Another $20 million was diverted from the experienced clinics to alternative programs that may not provide the same level of service.

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El Paso's [Family Planning Department], which loses 50 percent of its funds, must now turn away some of its clients. The disruption will force more women into the county hospital at late stages of illness.

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In Dallas, withdrawal of $1.7 million is forcing the closure of three family planning clinics. In Houston, where the Legislature cut more than 50 percent of Planned Parenthood funds, as many as 10,000 women will lose access to well-woman exams, contraception and cancer screenings. Under federal law, none of these Texas clinics could have used these funds to perform abortions. Nevertheless, legislators chose to cripple the clinics.

The pivotal operating funds will go to pregnancy crisis centers or to 19 Federally Qualified Health Centers -- some of which never requested the help. These FQHCs are valuable resources, offering primary care to poor neighborhoods. But the clinics are scarce, far-flung, and often lack family planning services such as contraception. They can't replace the multiservice family planning clinics that have treated Texans for decades.

It's not just abortion that's under attack. It's birth control, sex education, etc....

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Also,

The state's Health and Human Services Commission tells us that this is a good thing, because "the active promotion of childbirth" is now the official policy of the State of Texas.

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eta: Also, contraception is the gateway to abortion

It's not just abortion that's under attack. It's birth control, sex education, etc....

Well, cutting back on birth control is an important part of promoting childbirth.

contraception is the gateway to abortion

Well, sure! Because contraception prevents pregnancy, and that leads to abortions to end...the...pregnancy.... Heyyyyyy. Wait a minute!

Because contraception prevents pregnancy, and that leads to abortions to end...the...pregnancy....

See you have it all wrong. It's a gateway right. You let women control when they get pregnant, then that leads to them wanting to control staying pregnant.

"the active promotion of childbirth" is now the official policy of the State of Texas.

This will be awkward when the nuns are asked to do their part for the civic good.

If you don't want to have a baby, you shouldn't be having sex! And if you're having sex, you damn well better be having babies.

See you have it all wrong. It's a gateway right. You let women control when they get pregnant, then that leads to them wanting to control staying pregnant.

It all goes back to education.

They should never have started educating the wimminfolk. That just makes them all uppity and such.

This will be awkward when the nuns are asked to do their part for the civic good.

No problem, two words, frozen embryos.

Someone should tell the lawmakers that the bulk of the poor minority babies that will be born because of the de-emphasis on contraception and sex education will end up becoming Democrats.