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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