. . UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : WAR ON WOMEN: Everything is Bigger and Better in Texas: Governor Rick Perry's War on Women and the Poor Jehmu Greene. Posted: 03/13/2012 12:08 pm Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jehmu-greene/ rick-perry-planned-parenthood_b_1341330.html . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/767gx95 . .While the attacks on women's health care around the country have been relentless and unprecedented, Governor Rick Perry's plan to close health centers in underserved communities and cut off tens of thousands of women from lifesaving health care -- after signing an invasive new law that forces women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound -- is particularly vicious and heartless.
.Every woman in Texas -- and across the nation -- should be outraged. This week, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission will effectively sabotage the state's Medicaid Women's Health Care program, through which over 130,000 women receive basic health care, including preventive screenings for breast and cervical cancer, diabetes, sexually transmitted infections, and high blood pressure. Under Gov. Perry, the Texas Legislature's defunding of women's health has already caused more than a dozen health centers to close -- and now Planned Parenthood is specifically excluded from the Medicaid Women's Health Program.
.It doesn't matter to Gov. Perry that one out of four Texas women is uninsured or that women in the state have the third-highest rate of cervical cancer in the U.S. And he clearly has no compunction about breaking the law to achieve his political agenda: the state decision is in direct conflict with federal law, which says Medicaid beneficiaries may obtain covered services from any qualified provider willing to offer the service.
.Even more shocking, this is just the latest move Texas officials have made to deny health care to women. In the past few months, budget cuts passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Perry slashed the state's family planning program by more than two-thirds -- taking health care away from 160,000 women this year alone. These cuts mean hard working Texas women who have the misfortune of being uninsured or underinsured will be cut off from vital preventive services like Pap tests, clinical breast exams and birth control.
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