The Oklahoma State Department of Heath has just announced that it will end its WIC contract with the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliates, effectively cutting off the federal funding that the organization’s clinics rely on to provide health services to low-income women.

“We don’t like the idea of ‘killing babies.’ Therefore, we will cut off money for food for starving babies.” - Republican logic.

Saying planned parenthood is only for abortions is like saying veterinarian are only for euthanizing pets.

Remember when Rick Perry took away funding for $130,000 low-income women in order to stick it to Planned Parenthood? This is the result.

Texas scrambles to re-fund family planning after a $73m in savings turns into a projected $273m loss after a huge spike in unplanned births for low-income families.

(The New York Times) - Using taxpayer dollars to finance family-planning services has become politically thorny in Texas, largely because of Republican lawmakers’ assertions that the women’s health clinics providing that care are affiliated with abortion providers. In the fiscal crunch of 2011, the Legislature cut the state’s family-planning budget by two-thirds, with some lawmakers claiming that they were defunding the “abortion industry.” Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, found that more than 50 family-planning clinics had closed statewide as a result.

Now, amid estimates that the cuts could lead to 24,000 additional 2014-15 births at a cost to taxpayers of $273 million, lawmakers are seeking a way to restore financing without ruffling feathers.

Remember how everyone kept saying this is exactly what would happen if Planned Parenthood was de-funded?

Now Texas republicans are getting bitten in the ass by their own policies, and now have a problem were they can’t reinstate funding because they have been painting Planned Parenthood as the most evil thing in the world.

“If I was a female with a vagina, and a male presidential candidate said that if he became president, he would eliminate Planned Parenthood and any control that I had over my body and reproductive organs, I would cut his balls off and hang them from my rear-view mirror.”

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Henry Rollins; Capitalism Tour, Nashville, October 10, 2012.

He said this in Nashville when I saw him October 10th. One of the many reasons why I love him.

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Saying planned parenthood is only for abortions is like saying veterinarian are only for euthanizing pets.

Texas scrambles to re-fund family planning after a $73m in savings turns into a projected $273m loss after a huge spike in unplanned births for low-income families.

“If I was a female with a vagina, and a male presidential candidate said that if he became president, he would eliminate Planned Parenthood and any control that I had over my body and reproductive organs, I would cut his balls off and hang them from my rear-view mirror.”

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Latest Attack in the War on Women - Cutting Off WIC (a program that feeds low-income mothers and babies) funding from Planned Parenthood.

Saying planned parenthood is only for abortions is like saying veterinarian are only for euthanizing pets.

Desperate Texan Women Turn To Dangerous Drugs For Abortions

Texas scrambles to re-fund family planning after a $73m in savings turns into a projected $273m loss after a huge spike in unplanned births for low-income families.

“If I was a female with a vagina, and a male presidential candidate said that if he became president, he would eliminate Planned Parenthood and any control that I had over my body and reproductive organs, I would cut his balls off and hang them from my rear-view mirror.”