Family Planning Cuts Would Deny Services to 284,000, Cost State Millions (TX)

[DeSwiss]

Family Planning Cuts Would Deny Services to 284,000, Cost State Millions
House budget cuts could cost $100 million in Medicaid births, LBB says


Texas Observer| by Alexa Garcia-Ditta
Published on: Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The cuts to family planning programs approved in the Texas House budget—part of conservative lawmakers’ efforts to defund Planned Parenthood this session—would lead to more than a quarter million low-income women losing essential reproductive health services and birth control, according to a recent analysis.

And, in an odd twist, denying access to birth control for hundreds of thousands of women could end up costing the state tens of millions of dollars.

The House version of the budget would divert about $62 million—two-thirds of total funding—from birth control and other women’s health services to programs like autism services, early childhood intervention and crisis pregnancy centers.

A recent analysis by the Legislative Budget Board estimates the family planning cuts contained in the House budget would result in almost 284,000 fewer women receiving services. With a lack of birth control come more unplanned pregnancies, and possibly more abortions.

http://www.texasobserver.org/component/k2/item/17805-more-a-quarter-million-women-will-lose-birth-control-with-house-budget-cuts">MORE

- http://jezebel.com/5801125/texas-calculates-the-cost-of-cutting-funding-for-family-planning?comment=39139675">JulieSunday's C.O.T.D.:

20511 more medicaid births = $100 million dollars
284000 fewer women with health care = $38 million less in federal matching funds
keeping poor people poor and women in their place: priceless

This.

DeSwiss




"Prayer is just a way of telling god that his divine plan for
you is flawed -- and shockingly stingy" ~ Betty Bowers

[PDittie]

1. That toon and that Bowers quote

are worth the recommendation alone.

[DeSwiss]

3. ....

:woohoo:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. That's $4,875.00 per birth.

That's an awfully cheap delivery.

[DeSwiss]

4. I think the operative phrase here.....

...is "medicaid births." (AKA: "no frills" delivery)