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«It's about whether low - income women in Texas have access to the health care that other Texans do.

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«As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's access to safe abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.

** Health - care providers have access to breastfeeding management support via the Texas Lactation Support Hotline.

Today the women's health care providers who jointly filed suit last month on behalf of their patients have filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an injunction granted by U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on October 28 blocking a Texas provision requiring doctors who provide abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital — a requirement that leading medical associations oppose and only results in women losing access to safe medical care.

She has also been a staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, where she worked on two trials challenging a Texas law limiting women's access to reproductive health care.

For instance, a recent analysis of state - published data by the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin found that, by 2016, 26 % Texas women who the state reported as enrolled in the program had in fact never received health care services from a participating provider, up from only 10 % in 2011, pointedly showing how access to care has declined drastically.

The Texas Senate has yet to debate its somewhat less draconian budget draft, but whatever the differences between the chambers that remain to be hashed out before final passage, it is clear that thousands of low - income and uninsured women will have little or no access to health care for at least the next two years.

Research by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services found other providers would have to expand their capacity to serve these women five-fold in order to offset the loss of Planned Parenthood health centers («An Early Assessment of the Potential Impact of Texas» «Affiliation» Regulation on Access to Care for Low - Income Women,» by Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., et al. [email protected]; 202-994-Health and Health Services found other providers would have to expand their capacity to serve these women five-fold in order to offset the loss of Planned Parenthood health centers («An Early Assessment of the Potential Impact of Texas» «Affiliation» Regulation on Access to Care for Low - Income Women,» by Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., et al. [email protected]; 202-994-Health Services found other providers would have to expand their capacity to serve these women five-fold in order to offset the loss of Planned Parenthood health centers («An Early Assessment of the Potential Impact of Texas» «Affiliation» Regulation on Access to Care for Low - Income Women,» by Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., et al. [email protected]; 202-994-health centers («An Early Assessment of the Potential Impact of Texas» «Affiliation» Regulation on Access to Care for Low - Income Women,» by Sara Rosenbaum, J.D., et al. [email protected]; 202-994-4230).

Since 2005, those providers have had access to between roughly $ 35 million and $ 40 million a year to provide services to these women — who are but a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of women who actually need services in Texas; with Texas» dubious claim to fame as the state with the highest percentage of uninsured people (about 26 % in 2009, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation), the number of Texas women in need of reproductive health care is roughly 1.5 million, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

This timeline reveals how low the Texas legislature has sunk in just the past five years, and how hard we need to fight to win back reproductive health care access for Texans.

It would have left Texas with only nine abortion providers in the whole state, and the Supreme Court rightly ruled that would put an undue burden on women to access health care.

Perry has already cut off 130,000 Texas women from basic preventive health care, including lifesaving cancer screenings and well - woman checkups, and now by virtually banning abortion he's further denying women access to health care.