Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood

Texas plans to cover its cost of taking over the Women’s Health Program with funds from a crackdown on Medicaid fraud and services deemed unnecessary; a freeze in administrative positions in health and human services; and savings from eligibility-system changes.

The state also plans to use state money already appropriated for the program before Texas got on the wrong side of the federal government by banning Planned Parenthood and other clinics affiliated with abortion providers, even though the clinics don’t provide abortions.

The ban has been halted

Article source: http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2012/06/how-texas-plans-to-pay-for-the-womens-health-program/

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