February 4, 2016      4:10 PM
Nelson: Texas is Committed to Women's Health
In op-ed, Senate Finance Chair Jane Nelson argues the Legislature’s intent “has always been in keeping with the will of Texans who do not want their tax dollars to support abortion, directly or indirectly”
Here
they go again. This week researchers funded by supporters of Planned
Parenthood released a new misleading “study” of women’s health in
Texas. The conclusion faults Texas for excluding the abortion provider and its
affiliates from government-subsidized programs.
The
report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine is
based on a Texas Policy Evaluation Project study funded in part by the Susan T. Buffet Foundation, a major
supporter of Planned Parenthood. The
study reviews claims in the Women’s Health Program and its
successor, the Texas Women’s Health Program (TWHP),
from 2011 to 2014. That program served
114,441 women in 2014.
The complete column by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, is in the R&D Department.
By Sen. Jane Nelson
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