After Planned Parenthood Ouster, More Medicaid Births and Less Birth Control

[ashling]

http://www.texasobserver.org/family-planning-safety-net-study-txpep/

In 2011, Texas lawmakers voted to kick Planned Parenthood out of the Medicaid Women’s Health Program, which the federal government deemed a violation of federal law. Rather than support a program that denied patients the provider of their choosing, the feds yanked a $9-to-$1 match in funds at the end of 2012, and Texas dropped the women’s Medicaid program entirely. In 2013, Texas instead launched the state-funded TWHP replacement program — without Planned Parenthood. Since then, state health officials and lawmakers have boasted that the new program has more than 4,000 providers, and claimed that others could easily fill the void.





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“More general funding that is dedicated to family planning providers appear to be essential to the delivery of most effective methods of contraception,” Stevenson said.

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“The reproductive health safety net cannot just absorb all of the demand for highly effective contraception when you remove Planned Parenthood from the network.”

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“What this shows, on a really big level, is that the tradition in the federal government of non-discrimination against medically qualified providers cannot be changed without consequences,” Stevenson said. “If we change that tradition, if we exclude some medically qualified providers like Planned Parenthood, there are consequences for service delivery.”

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Texas attack on women's rights worked as planned.

I am sure they look forward to bring it to the US Congress, Senate, and White House in 2017.

[Ilsa]

2. Just wait until the Zika virus spreads

and brings microcephaly to thousands of babies whose mothers could not access affordable contraception, even after the CDC advised delaying pregnancy in areas already infected.