Claim: Planned Parenthood funding in Texas at stake in hearing.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Maternal healthcare in Texas
text: to 8.4% in the counties with Planned Parenthood affiliates. In addition to the Women's Health Program, from September 2010 to August 2011, the Texas Department of State Health Services allocated $49.3 million in funding to private, public, and Planned Parenthood affiliated clinics through Title X, V, and XX funding to provide family planning services. In September 2011, preceding the exclusion of programs from WHP, the state of Texas reduced its family planning funding from $111.0 million to $37.9 million through the removal of Title V and Title XX block grants. The funds were re-allocated away from family planning providers to

title: Texas Alliance for Life
text: the state's Medicaid program." In 2015, Pojman celebrated the Texas Legislature's passage of legislation laws that the group had pushed for to expel Planned Parenthood from a joint state-federal cancer screening program "and cut off the last bit of taxpayer money the organization received." Planned Parenthood clinics that had previous received cancer screening funds under the program were already barred from performing abortions." Pojman supported Texas's highly controversial proposed "fetal remains" regulation, which sought to compel the "cremation or interment of aborted or miscarried fetuses." The group has often clashed with another Texas anti-abortion group, the Texas Right to Life

title: Texas Alliance for Life
text: 2013) that imposed targeted regulation of abortion providers, leading to the closure more than two dozen clinics across Texas. The legislation was struck down as unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in "Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt" in 2016. After the ruling, the Texas Alliance for Life shifted its focus to pushing for "increasing funding to the state's Alternatives to Abortion program." The group has pushed for the defunding of Planned Parenthood. In the 2012 session, Pojman said the group's top priority was to "'continue to defund Planned Parenthood' by banning health providers affiliated with abortion providers from participating in

title: Texas Policy Evaluation Project
text: E. (2016). Effect of removal of Planned Parenthood from the Texas Women’s Health Program. "New England Journal of Medicine", 374(9), 853–860. http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa1511902 White, K., Carroll, E., & Grossman, D. (2015). Complications from first-trimester aspiration abortion: a systematic review of the literature. "Contraception", 92(5), 422–438. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2015.07.013 White, K., Grossman, D., Hopkins, K., & Potter, J. E. (2012). Cutting family planning in Texas. "New England Journal of Medicine", 367(13), 1179–1181. http://doi.org/10.1056/Nejmp1207920 White, K., Hopkins, K., Aiken, A. R. A., Stevenson, A. J., Hubert, C., Grossman, D., & Potter, J. E. (2015). The impact of reproductive health legislation on family planning clinic services

title: Texas Policy Evaluation Project
text: in Texas. "American Journal of Public Health", 105(5), 851–8. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302515 White, K., Potter, J. E., Stevenson, A. J., Fuentes, L., Hopkins, K., & Grossman, D. (2016). Women’s knowledge of and support for abortion restrictions in Texas: findings from a statewide representative survey. "Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health", 48(4). http://doi.org/10.1363/48e8716 Woo, C. J., Alamgir, H., & Potter, J. E. (2016). Women’s experiences after Planned Parenthood’s exclusion from a family planning program in Texas. "Contraception", 93(4), 298–302. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2015.12.004 Texas Policy Evaluation Project The Texas Policy Evaluation Project, or TxPEP, began in the fall of 2011 with the purpose of documenting and

title: Planned Parenthood
text: to Planned Parenthood for the provision of other medical services allows other funds to be reallocated for abortions. A coalition of national and local pro-life groups have lobbied federal and state governments to stop funding Planned Parenthood. As a result, federal and state legislators have proposed legislation to reduce funding levels. Eight statesAlabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Utahhave enacted such proposals. In some cases, the courts have overturned such actions, citing conflict with federal or state laws; in others the federal executive branch has provided funding in lieu of the states. In some states, Planned Parenthood

title: War on Women
text: she called "vicious and inappropriate". Several Democrats used the phrase "War on Women" to criticize the Republican Party after House Republicans passed legislation to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood in February 2011. Texas, Indiana and Kansas have passed legislation in an effort to defund the organization. Arizona, Ohio and New Hampshire are considering similar legislation. In Texas, lawmakers reduced funds for family planning from $111M to $37M. The future of the Women's Health Program in Texas, which receives 90% of its funding from the federal government, is unclear. The Indiana legislature passed a bill restricting Medicaid funds for Planned

title: Stuart Bowen
text: General, Bowen is charged with preventing, detecting, and deterring fraud, waste, and abuse in the Texas Health and Human Services System. On October 22, 2015, Bowen accused Planned Parenthood of misconduct and informed them all of the state's Planned Parenthood affiliates were being dropped as a Medicaid health care provider. He cited videos showing misconduct and sent investigators with letters to Planned Parenthood offices in San Antonio, Dallas, and the Houston area, requesting records. His letters cited the authority of Health and Human Services Commission to investigate allegations of potential fraud involving Medicaid payments. Bowen was forced to resign by

title: Maternal healthcare in Texas
text: March 2012, discontinued federal funding for the WHP. The WHP was then replaced with a program that was 100% funded by revenue from the state of Texas. The exclusion of Planned Parenthood clinics from the WHP was found to be associated with a reduced use of contraception by clients. After the exclusion of Planned Parenthood clinics from the WHP, the claims in Planned Parenthood clinics for long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) reduced by 35.5% and the claims for injectable contraceptives reduced by 31.1%. After the exclusion, there was also found to be an increase in childbirth covered under Medicaid from 7.0%

title: Maternal healthcare in Texas
text: afford contraception, and as a result, reduced access to IUDs and implants for patients. Clinics also began to reduce their service hours. With the loss of funding, clinics lost their participation in the 340B drug-pricing program, which had reduced contraception costs from 50 – 80%. Clinics also lost their exemption status from a Texas law requiring parental consent for provision of family planning services to adolescents. Family planning organizations reported a 41–92% reduction in clients after the reduction and reallocation of family planning funding. The changes in family planning funding and exclusion of Planned Parenthood clinics from the WHP did

title: Texas Senate Bill 5
text: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the injunction. Two weeks later, the Supreme Court vacated the stay, allowing the injunction to take effect during Texas's appeal of the district court's ruling. On June 9, 2015, the Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the lower court's ruling, finding that neither abortion restriction placed an undue burden on women as mandated in "Planned Parenthood v. Casey". Later that month, the Supreme Court stayed the Fifth Circuit's ruling by a 5–4 vote, preventing the restrictions from being enforced once again. On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court ruled 5–3 that

title: Texas Policy Evaluation Project
text: Texas. "American Journal of Public Health", 106(5), 857–864. Grossman, D., Baum, S., Fuentes, L., White, K., Hopkins, K., Stevenson, A. J., & Potter, J. E. (2014). Change in abortion services after implementation of a restrictive law in Texas. "Contraception", 90(5), 496–501. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2014.07.006 Grossman, D., White, K., Hopkins, K., & Potter, J. E. (2014). The public health threat of anti-abortion legislation. "Contraception", 89(2), 73–4. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2013.10.012 Hopkins, K., White, K., Linkin, F., Hubert, C., Grossman, D., & Potter, J. E. (2015). Women’s experiences seeking publicly funded family planning services in Texas. "Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health", 47(2), 63–70. http://doi.org/10.1363/47e2815 Potter, J.

title: Planned Parenthood
text: medical records in an investigation of possible child abuse. In 2005, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota was fined for violating a Minnesota state parental consent law. In 2012, a Texas state court judge, Gary Harger, denied Planned Parenthood request for a temporary restraining order against the State of Texas, concluding that the State may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding if the doctors or clinics advocate for abortion rights. In the 1920s, various theories of eugenics were popular among intellectuals in the U.S. In her campaign to promote birth control, Sanger teamed with

title: Will Ford Hartnett
text: state funding to facilities which perform abortions, but he did not vote on the 2011 measure which requires women in Texas who procure abortions first to undergo an ultrasound to be informed of the progress in the development of the child. He voted for legislation, passed 102-40 in the House and signed by Governor Perry, which authorizes a county, when determining eligibility for a "sponsored alien" under the Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act, to include in the resources of the applicant any additional incomes of their spouse and sponsor. Hartnett and his wife, the former Tammy Cotton, reside in

title: Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy
text: abortions without the proper licenses, and that one clinic was failing to keep proper logs relating to fetal remains. Planned Parenthood rejected the findings. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced an investigation into practices in Texas, and said that the state would "expand its investigation" after the release of the second video, and Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced that his office would investigate Planned Parenthood for any potential wrongdoing at its clinics in that state. Investigations were also launched in Ohio, Kansas, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana, with calls for the U.S. Justice Department to investigate. At the local

title: Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy
text: level, the Harris County district attorney launched a criminal investigation in conjunction with the Texas Rangers and the Houston Police Department after the fifth video was released showing a Planned Parenthood executive in that city. Altogether, the videos prompted investigations in fifteen states, including Texas where the sting operation took place; eight other states refused to investigate their Planned Parenthood clinics, including California and Colorado where CMP sting operations also occurred. California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced an investigation into the CMP's practice of undercover recording. Officials in Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, South Dakota, and Kansas investigated and failed to

title: Apolonia Muñoz Abarca
text: outpatient services at Memorial Hospital. She founded a Corpus Christi cancer clinic, while volunteering to teach classes at a local settlement house. In the 1960s, Abarca focused on family planning services, securing a $300,000 grant for Corpus Christi, the first grant of its kind in the United States. The next year, in 1965, she accepted the position of executive director for the South Texas Planned Parenthood Center. Her interests in birth control and family planning were aimed at women’s health and preventing poverty. These family planning grants reduced “chronic, systemic poverty” thereby reducing the amount of spending on other social

title: Political positions of Ted Cruz
text: funding to Planned Parenthood. In January 2016, Cruz announced his "Pro-Lifers for Cruz" coalition, chaired by Tony Perkins; co-chairs include Troy Newman, who has previously stated that the government has a responsibility to execute abortion doctors "in order to expunge bloodguilt ["sic"] from the land and people." Cruz favors the death penalty. In his 2012 Senate campaign, Cruz frequently mentioned his role as counsel for the State of Texas in "Medellín v. Texas", a 2008 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that Texas has the legal right to ignore an order from the International Court of Justice directing

title: Mike Delph
text: June 2012 on the state's law concerning the federal funding of abortion services. A US District Court judge ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood. The organization argued that state legislation to block its access to Medicaid funding for all of its services based upon its support of abortions created a conflict between state and federal powers. Delph said the courts were interfering with state executive and legislative powers. The judge’s decision was upheld in October by 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. While competing for Republican nomination for Indiana Secretary of State in 2002, Delph was considered by political observers

title: Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy
text: of aborted fetal tissue. The White House said it would oppose any congressional attempts to defund Planned Parenthood. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced, on August 3, 2015, that the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals was terminating its contract with Planned Parenthood, which provides the organization with state Medicaid funds. In court filings, the Justice Department argued that Louisiana's action violates federal law by denying Medicaid patients the choice of their healthcare providers. Also noted, neither of the two Louisiana clinics provide abortion services. The states of Alabama, New Hampshire, and Utah also cut their respective funding to Planned Parenthood