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Obama Cut $35 Million From Texas When It Defunded Planned Parenthood, Now Texas Wants It Back Tony Perkins Jul 10, 2017 | 5:34PM Washington, DC Texas’s motto is “Friendship” — but it ought to be “Persistence.” For the last several years, state officials have been more determined than anyone to keep Planned Parenthood’s hands off their tax dollars. Even when President Obama made it sting (stopping the flow of $35 million in federal Medicaid funding), then-Governor Rick Perry didn’t blink. Instead, he and the state’s conservatives turned around and created “Healthy Texas Woman,” a program that let them decide which providers are eligible for funding. Instead of funneling the money to Cecile Richards’s group, state leaders wrote their checks to health centers that don’t perform abortions. It was a strong stand — one that at least two other states replicated. Iowa and Missouri decided as recently as this year to forgo the millions in federal dollars so that they could defund Planned Parenthood.Now, with Donald Trump in the White House, Texas is testing the waters by asking for their federal funding back — with the understanding that the state would still exclude abortion groups. Not surprisingly, the request has sent the Left into a panic. The liberal-leaning Guttmacher Institute bemoaned the fact that “If CMS [the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services] were to approve this waiver and offer federal funding for this program, it would open the floodgates for this to be implemented in other states.” Pro-lifers sure hope so. It should be up to the states to decide where their health care dollars go. And preferably, not to organizations that think abortion is health care.Continued: http://www.lifenews.com/2017/07/10/obama-cut-35-million-from-texas-when-it-defunded-planned-parenthood-now-texas-wants-it-back/
