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October 26, 2012

Texas Stops Payments after Court Affirms Ban on Planned Parenthood 
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A federal appeals court has rejected the group Planned Parenthood's
challenge of a funding ban in Texas. Texas has sought to cut payments to
Planned Parenthood and exclude it from a government-funded health
program for low-income women because it also provides abortions. The
Texas program offers cancer and health screenings as well as birth
control services to some 130,000 low-income women, about 40 percent of
whom are served through Planned Parenthood. But on Thursday, the Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans declined to reconsider
an earlier ruling upholding the ban. In response, Texas Gov. Rick Perry
immediately announced Texas will stop all payments to program
participants affiliated with abortion providers. A recent George
Washington University study has warned Texas will be unlikely to provide
adequate care to the patients currently served by Planned Parenthood.

 

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