Next step for Texas after more babies, perpetual MORE cuts to services babies need [View all]

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Texas is a rich state, yet ranks about 3rd from the bottom of states in all categories of social services or conversely high in in the bad categories like dropout rates. The rationale is a mishmash of "Rugged Individualism" and religious Fundamentalism as the basis for invasive intrusions into restricting other people's decisions about their private lives, without a sense of irony about their TeaBagger harping about "freedom" (versus other people's freedom).

Their hottest topics are: War on Planned Parenthood, state board on textbooks (think "Creationism/Intelligent Design" and minimizing minorities in history), voter suppression, and Dr Strangelove border "security" spending schemes. One of the most mental twists is how they claim to want every possible birth, but once the births are here they want so slash all programs that will support the new arrivals. Hence,

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http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-planned-parenthood-texas-births-20160203-story.html

[font size=5]After Texas stopped funding Planned Parenthood, low-income women had more babies[/font]

The state of Texas’ sustained campaign against Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics affiliated with abortion providers appears to have led to an increase in births among low-income women who lost access to affordable and effective birth control, a new study says.

The analysis, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, documents a significant increase in births among women who had previously received birth control at clinics that no longer get state funding. ....

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