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By the numbers, this is what “pro-life” looks like:
• 22: Texas clinics – providing preventive health care services to women – completely defunded
• $19 million: Remaining annual state budget for family planning, down from $50 million
• 60,000: Women whom the Department of State Health Services estimates can be served with that amount, compared with the average 244,000 served annually since 2005
• 184,000: Women served by the federally funded Women’s Health Program in 2010, now in danger of losing services because of state’s insistence on excluding Planned Parenthood clinics (2011 estimate: 185,000-200,000)
• 11: Texas Planned Parenthood clinics – none of which provided abortion services – closed for lack of funding
• 33,974: Screenings for sexually transmitted infections provided by those 11 clinics
• 1.5 million: Number of Texas women in need of basic, preventative health care service; before last year’s cuts, about 15% of those women were receiving services
• 22%: Anticipated increase in the number of Texas abortions in the absence of access to reproductive health services
It is difficult to summarize how hypocritical and counterproductive is the right-wing assault on women’s health care, disguised as a righteous defense against abortion or Planned Parenthood.
Further reading: The Destruction of Texas Healthcare