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At CPAC, Rick Perry pointed out that he had cut funding to Planned Parenthood in Texas:
Last year I proudly signed a budget that ended all state funding for Planned Parenthood in my state. Since then there's been about a dozen of those clinics that shut down in the state of Texas.
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Mopar151
(9,998 posts)So tone-deaf and oblivious, this fool brags about stuff that the stars of Jackass would be embarrrased by.
louslobbs
(3,238 posts)of crap brags about the closing of PP clinics that used to provide healthcare services to women, forcing them to travel further distances, or put off necessary preventive healthcare check-ups entirely because they can't get to a clinic that is now, too far for them travel. And that budget, he "proudly" signed? Let's stop these Republican lunatics from doing things that cause unnecessary pain, suffering or even death for all of our sisters. Let's stop this Republican war on Women's health.........Please!
Lou
Rex
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ceile
(8,692 posts)AUSTIN Womens health advocates assailed Rick Perry on Tuesday for what they called a patently false assertion that state budget cuts have forced a dozen abortion clinics to close.
They accused the governor of purposely misstating the law, which requires abortion clinics to use only private funding, by saying that state budget cuts have shuttered 11 Planned Parenthood clinics that provided cancer screenings and contraception for women.
No abortion clinics in Texas have closed, and none of the facilities now shuttered ever offered abortion services, Planned Parenthood officials said.