{"id":29870,"date":"2012-08-16T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/throwing-out-the-babies-with-the-bathwater-in-texas.html"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T04:01:46","slug":"throwing-out-the-babies-with-the-bathwater-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/throwing-out-the-babies-with-the-bathwater-in-texas.html","title":{"rendered":"Throwing out the babies with the bathwater in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers in Texas sure showed all those evil abortionists (and the folks who do the other 97% of the work) at Planned Parenthood by cutting off all state funding to them. That meant that federal funding to the state program was dropped, but it was worth it to give Planned Parenthood a poke in the eye, right?<\/p>\n<p>Except, of course, that a lot of other, non-PP women&#39;s health clinics have ended up closing, with unfortunate results for the poor Texas women who depended on them for a wide variety of service.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F03%2Ftexas-300x156.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/08\/16\/699031\/attacks-on-planned-parenthood-in-texas-forced-at-least-50-unaffiliated-health-clinics-to-close\/#'>Attacks On Planned Parenthood In Texas Forced At Least 50 Unaffiliated Health Clinics To Close<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLast March, Republican lawmakers in Texas blocked funding for the state\u2019s Planned Parenthood clinics, mandating that the organizations in the Texas\u2019 Women\u2019s Health Program shouldn\u2019t receive federal fu&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/LUw1koZS6eD' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers in Texas sure showed all those evil abortionists (and the folks who do the other 97% of the work) at Planned Parenthood by cutting off all state funding to them. That meant that federal funding to the state program was dropped, but it was worth it to give Planned Parenthood a poke in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/throwing-out-the-babies-with-the-bathwater-in-texas.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Throwing out the babies with the bathwater in Texas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31649,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/texas-reconsiders-family-planning.html","url_meta":{"origin":29870,"position":0},"title":"Texas reconsiders family planning","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 8-Dec-12 11:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not at all surprisingly, Texas Republicans are discovering that if you gut family planning programs for the poor, the poor end up having bigger families, which then impacts all sorts of other social services.'Sen. 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In fact, he says he opposes it, \u00a0In fact, he \u00a0says PPA should \"be funded like Catholic charities.\"By which he really meant, as he further explained, \"by individuals who believe in Planned Parenthood's mission,\" rather than by tax\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/03\/where-the-komen-defunding-of-planned-parenthood-hurts.html","url_meta":{"origin":29870,"position":3},"title":"Where the Komen defunding of Planned Parenthood hurts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Feb-12 2:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"In areas where PP clinics are the only thing out there -- and where the grant money was not only valuable in and of itself, but leveraged other programs to help poor women. #ddtbReshared post from +Mark Dodson Embedded Link Where The Komen Decision To Defund Planned Parenthood Will Hit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27689,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/something-good-can-come-out-of-texas.html","url_meta":{"origin":29870,"position":4},"title":"Something good can come out of Texas","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-May-12 1:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Even if I'm sure they won't take No for an answer.\"Unfortunately, the Lone Star State will probably just shut down the whole Women's Health Program, anyway, because nothing is more important than proving a political point, not even women's health.\" Embedded Link Finally, Some Good News About Planned Parenthood and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/26\/unlocked.html","url_meta":{"origin":29870,"position":5},"title":"&quot;Unlocked&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-May-17 8:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"A short film directed by Joss Whedon about the realities of shutting down Planned Parenthood by choking off the state and federal funding for its work as women's health clinics (none of which funding goes to the abortion services it also provides).And, as a real life example, we have Iowa\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}