The document summarizes how women's health services in Texas are under attack. It describes how Texas cut funding for women's health clinics by two-thirds in 2011, eliminating access to family planning services for nearly 300,000 poor and working-class women. A new law further eliminates funding for clinics associated with abortion providers or that advocate for abortion rights, though none actually perform abortions. The loss of funding will force many clinics to close and deprive thousands of women, especially in rural areas, of critical health services. Women's health issues like cancer screening and STD prevention are at risk, with women becoming collateral damage of the policy changes.

1. Women’s Health
Under Attack in
Texas
By: Iris Guerrero

2. The women’s health
care program in Texas
began in 2007 and offers
free family planning
services to low income
women between the
ages of 18 and 44.Meghan Ashford-Grooms , The Austin American –Statesman.

3. Families USA

4. National Women's Law Center

5. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health

6. The well woman’s
program serves an
average of 24,000 women
each year that would
otherwise lack access to
life-saving preventative
health services
Jordan Smith, Austin Chronicle

7. Planned Parenthood et al vs. Thomas M. Suehs

8. STD’s

9. Health outcomes
associated with
untreated STD’s
include:

10. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health
Resources and Services Administration

11. Diabetes

12. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health
Resources and Services Administration

13. Hypertension

14. The Mayo Clinic

15. The Mayo Clinic

16. The Mayo Clinic

17. Cervical
and
Breast Cancer

18. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services
Administration

19. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and
Services Administration

21. Texas cut its support
statewide for women's
health clinics by two-
thirds in 2011,
eliminating access to
family planning services
for nearly 300,000 poor
and working-class
women.Wade Goodwyn, NPR

22. But Texas is going a step
further, with a law that
eliminates funding for
women's health clinics that
either associate with
abortion providers or
advocate for abortion
rights.Wade Goodwyn, NPR

23. None of the dozens of
clinics that will lose state
funds actually perform
abortions. It is already
against state and federal
law for clinics that perform
abortions to receive
taxpayer dollars.Wade Goodwyn, NPR

24. Meghan Ashford-Grooms , The Austin American –Statesman

25. Women are the
collateral
damage of this
policy.

26. Loss of funding will deprive
thousands of Texas women
of critical health service,
especially in rural areas in
which no alternative
provider to the Women’s
Health Program is available
Planned Parenthood et al vs. Thomas M. Suehs

27. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources
and Services Administration

28. The massive loss
in annual
funding will force
clinics to close
and lay off staff.
Planned Parenthood et al vs. Thomas M. Suehs

29. Meghan Ashford-Grooms , The Austin American –Statesman

30. Hidalgo county is
one of the
neediest regions
of the state of
Texas.
Meghan Ashford-Grooms , The Austin American –Statesman

31. Meghan Ashford-Grooms , The Austin American –Statesman

32. Women’s
health is not
about
abortion

38. It's about
YOU

39. It's about
ME

40. It's about
US

41. It's about

42. For more information or to become
involved please visit:
• Planned Parenthood
http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/
• Woman’s Health and Family Planning
Association of Texas
http://whfpt.org/
• Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition
http://www.texaswhc.org/