By: LeAnn Wallace
“We’re very pleased with the news that the state of Texas is cutting Planned Parenthood out of the Medicaid program,” said Joe Pojman, Texas Alliance for Life.
By: Brian M. Rosenthal
Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, said Monday’s announcement marked only the beginning of the final step in what has been a long process to cut funding to Planned Parenthood.
By: Charlie Butts
According to Pojman, there’s really no justification for giving money to Planned Parenthood because the services it offers – with the exception of abortions – are already available elsewhere. “There are thousands of other providers … of women’s health services and they’re located all across the state,” he says, “and [they] do a far better job than Planned Parenthood does.”
By: Chuck Lindell
The Texas Alliance for Life, which opposes abortion, said it has compiled data showing the organization receives about $2 million a year from the federal program.
“In 2011, the Texas Legislature defunded Planned Parenthood $29 million per year in taxpayer dollars. This past session, the Legislature went further and removed Planned Parenthood from the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening program, shifting $1.4 million to other providers. And now Planned Parenthood has finally been cut out of the Texas Medicaid Program, from which they were receiving nearly $2 million a year,” said Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “We are pleased that Planned Parenthood will no longer be receiving these taxpayer dollars, while the Gov. Abbott and the Texas Legislature are funding women’s health services at historically high levels through thousands of better providers.”
By: Texas GOP Vote
“In 2011, the Texas Legislature defunded Planned Parenthood $29 million per year in taxpayer dollars. This past session, the Legislature went further and removed Planned Parenthood from the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening program, shifting $1.4 million to other providers. And now Planned Parenthood has finally been cut out of the Texas Medicaid Program, from which they were receiving nearly $2 million a year,” said Joe Pojman, Ph.D., executive director of Texas Alliance for Life. “We are pleased that Planned Parenthood will no longer be receiving these taxpayer dollars, while the Gov. Abbott and the Texas Legislature are funding women’s health services at historically high levels through thousands of better providers.”