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  • Feds will phase out funds for Women's Health Program in Texas

    03/16/2012 5:57:56 PM PDT · by DeaconBenjamin · 16 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 10:16 p.m., Thursday, March 15, 2012 | By Peggy Fikac
    The federal government will phase out funding to Texas for a key women's health program, calling a transition period necessary to ensure that low-income clients don't abruptly lose access to screenings and contraceptives. Money for the Medicaid Women's Health Program is cut off because the state exclude clinics affiliated with abortion, even if the clinics "don't provide abortions." The federal government says that's not allowed. The ban notably affects Planned Parenthood. Gov. Rick Perry promised anew that the state will pick up the cost of the program, in which nearly 130,000 Texas women are enrolled. Where that money will come...