Posted on 06/23/2015 8:09:09 AM PDT by Morgana
A months-long effort to keep Republicans from pushing Planned Parenthood out of a state cancer screening program for low-income women ended in defeat on Saturday when Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed off on the proposal.
By approving the two-year state budget, Abbott green-lit a provision that will prevent Planned Parenthood from participating in the joint state-federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Services program, which provides cancer screening for poor, uninsured women in Texas. The governor’s endorsement of the provision, which was expected, came as Planned Parenthood leaders vowed to maintain their presence in Texas despite lawmakers’ efforts to cut their funding.
“It’s really incredible how low the governor and some of the state legislators will go when you start throwing women out of cancer screening programs and making it impossible for them to continue to go get services where they have before,” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in an interview with The Texas Tribune on Saturday.
In an effort to boot Planned Parenthood from the cancer program, lawmakers wrote a provision into the state budget to prohibit clinics affiliated with abortion providers from receiving funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings. Under state law, the 17 Planned Parenthood clinics participating in the program were already prohibited from performing abortions if they accepted taxpayer dollars.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the budget provision.
Planned Parenthood currently serves about 10 percent of the Texas women in the program. In fiscal year 2014, Planned Parenthood affiliates received about $1.2 million in funding and served 2,938 of the 33,599 women who received services from Breast and Cervical Cancer Services providers across the state.
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Good news for the morning. :)
This means PP can still do cancer screenings they just have to use their own money. Now we’ll see how committed they are to low income women
Doesn’t obamacare cover these poor, unfortunate women? From what I’ve read, PP just gives the women coming in for cancer screenings the number to a third party provider, which I assume will accept obamacare. Am I wrong?
With the Susan G Komen race for abortion money PP would skim their “administrative fee” and then grant the rest to third parties whom they would send women who wanted cancer screening. That way PP didn’t have to waste time doing the cancer screening but still got money to run administrative functions. This gives PP more time for abortions and more profit.
I am sure state money is handled in the same way.
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