Texas awards $1.6M health grant to woman fearful she can get HIV from fetuses flushed into sewers
Source: RawStory
15 AUG 2016 AT 14:19 ET
Carol Everett is the founder and CEO of The Heidi Group, an anti-abortion organization that gives women health “advice,” but is not a medical provider and can’t perform any health care services.
Earlier this month, Everett testified at a hearing at the Austin, Texas statehouse on a proposed requirement that women either bury or cremate the remains of an aborted fetus. According to The Austin Chronicle, Everett testified about her concerns of an impending public health disaster if fetuses were flushed down toilets. She argued that the general public could be afflicted with STDs or even HIV due to fetuses flooding the sewer systems.
“What if one day something horrible escaped into the sewer system?” she said, as the audience snickered. Everett’s claims are scientifically impossible.
Just days later, the Texas legislature awarded The Heidi Group $1.65 million in taxpayer money for the organization’s “health care services.” Their organization doesn’t provide health care services.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/texas-awards-1-6m-health-grant-to-woman-fearful-she-can-get-hiv-from-fetuses-flushed-into-sewers/
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am I missing something here----------------------------the wondrous Texas State Legislature:
you can have a gun on campus, you are making up your history in class room books, you can't vote unless you have a gun permit being used as the ID, you have a neighboring state fracking the ground water in OK, you have this guy, yes this guy:
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/impunity
committing fraud
And now the pièce de ré·sis·tance you have some paranoid hypocrite, who is going to get a salary out of that money, to do exactly what------------------------spread more s***t, is anyone licensed in this "group" to provide heath care services?
You just can't make this "stuff" up-----------------amazing.
I would be worried that some one like an employee didn't wash there hands in restaurant in Texas and was handling food-------------------you just don't know-----------------that's frighteneing all by itself
First, thank you...I've been a lurker for years, but finally took the plunge...Eh what's the worst that can happen 
Now that I'm calmed down...Awarding that money to a non-health care provider just set me off....Anyway...The thing is, with women's healthcare clinics shut down because of abortion services, prenatal care has also left. Now it's easy to think no biggie, just go to a different town. It's not that simple, Texas is big, like really big. In my county we had one PPP, it's closed now. There are two Medicaid drs in town and they have waiting list. The free clinic is overwhelmed with non-insured poor people so getting prenatal help is like a crap shoot--if they've got a spot it's all good if not, it's a case of sorry, but hey good luck with that. Getting to a women's clinic is a drive of 50 miles to Fort Worth, or 30 miles to a Weatherford which has a clinic. That becomes a major issue. So there are a lot of women who just skip prenatal care altogether.
We do have a pregnancy crisis center in my county. This is where the money that was suppose to fund PPP went. To crisis centers, places that more interested in getting young single women to give their babies for adoption. Private adoption. If the mother opts for the adoption plan, they'll get the paperwork for Medicaid going, they'll provide transportation to dr. visits, but only for the adoption plan participants. For mothers wanting to keep their babies, the most you're getting is help getting Medicaid.
The Republican controlled Texas Congress and all the Republican controlled state boards do not support women's health issues. They give it lip service and do stupid stuff like awarding money to non-care agencies.
I'm waiting for a study to show the outcome of ending mammogram services for older women along with issues that come with menopause. Currently there is NO plan in place for poor older women to get those services.
