Claim: After the Texas cutoff of aid to women's health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."
Fact-check: Wendy Davis says Texas lawmakers cut 150,000 women from health care, drove up Medicaid-funded births
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Andy East
Date published: 2015-11-24T00:00:00