Contraception Fell, Medicaid Births Rose When Texas Defunded Planned Parenthood

[Rob L 3,811]

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/contraception-fell-medicaid-births-went-when-texas-defunded-planned-parenthood-n510736

Women stopped using the most effective types of contraception and more babies were born on the government's tab after Texas cut off funding from Planned Parenthood clinics, a team of Texas researchers said Wednesday.

The number of claims for long-acting contraception plummeted by more than a third and births paid for by Medicaid rose 27 percent, the team at the University of Texas at Austin reported.

"This change is worrisome, since increased access to long-acting, reversible contraception methods is a priority of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and one study has indicated substantial unmet demand for long-acting, reversible contraception methods in Texas," they wrote in their report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Related: Texas Abortion Clinic Law is About Politics, Doctors Say

"This new research shows the devastating consequences for women when politicians block access to care at Planned Parenthood. Politicians have claimed time and again that our patients can simply go to other health care providers — and tragically that's not the case. Instead, women were left out in the cold," Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.

"Texas is fast becoming a cautionary tale for politicians in Ohio, Utah, and other states targeting care at Planned Parenthood."

"THIS NEW RESEARCH SHOWS THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES FOR WOMEN WHEN POLITICIANS BLOCK ACCESS TO CARE AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD."

Texas lawmakers have had a long-running battle with Planned Parenthood. The mostly conservative state legislature objects to the abortions provided by the organization, which also provides general medical care to its clients.

"Texas is one of several states that have barred Planned Parenthood affiliates from providing health care services with the use of public funds," PhD candidate Amanda Stevenson and colleagues wrote in their New England Journal of Medicine report.

Planned Parenthood clinics are set up in densely populated communities with much of the state's population of low-income women.

The team looked at Medicaid records from 2011 to 2014, as the state fought with the federal government over whether it could exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, the joint state-federal health insurance plan for people with low incomes.

[smilesammich 10,727]

texas is smh stupid. all glory to god and 'the center for medical progress' !

[ExPatty 502]

It makes sense that there would be more births if you cannot have legal abortions. Considering these medicare births are impoverished people you could almost say PP is a kind of pseudo-eugenics program, helping keep poor people from giving birth as much.

[smilesammich 10,727]

It makes sense that there would be more births if you cannot have legal abortions. Considering these medicare births are impoverished people you could almost say PP is a kind of pseudo-eugenics program, helping keep poor people from giving birth as much.

also makes sense that women are getting pregnant when they've no access to birth control.

and also, i hope you're joking about the whole pseudo eugenics bs..because lol.

Edited February 4, 2016 by elitesthuglib

[Rob L 3,811]

It makes sense that there would be more births if you cannot have legal abortions. Considering these medicare births are impoverished people you could almost say PP is a kind of pseudo-eugenics program, helping keep poor people from giving birth as much.

You don't have your facts straight.

[ExPatty 502]

also makes sense that women are getting pregnant when they've no access to birth control.

and also, i hope you're joking about the whole pseudo eugenics bs..because lol.

Wasn't really. The article impresses us with the notion that the preference is to have less medicare babies, i.e. less poor people having babies. I have no problem with that. I support that: but in other words we're simply saying we don't want poor people having kids as much, so let's give them all condoms. Still, I don't hate poor babies to the degree I think they should be surgically sucked out of the womb, so I would support a PP that cranks out lots of birth control to minimize the spread of poor babies, but if they do get pregnant would rather see them come to term than be skull-smashed.

You don't have your facts straight.

okay?

[smilesammich 10,727]

Wasn't really. The article impresses us with the notion that the preference is to have less medicare babies, i.e. less poor people having babies. I have no problem with that. I support that: but in other words we're simply saying we don't want poor people having kids as much, so let's give them all condoms. Still, I don't hate poor babies to the degree I think they should be surgically sucked out of the womb, so I would support a PP that cranks out lots of birth control to minimize the spread of poor babies, but if they do get pregnant would rather see them come to term than be skull-smashed.

oh then you support planned parenthood. because that's what they do, provide birth control.

try looking at the services planned parenthood offers (way more than skull smashing) as giving women agency over their own body, instead of some vague 'us' trying to control who is having babies by their immediate economic status (which, can change greatly over the course of a child's life). i personally don't want to have any say so over any other person's decision to reproduce, i'd rather they make that decision themselves. don't you think there are plenty of rich women who shouldn't have children? and why is reproduction a matter of public opinion anyway? it is, well it should be - in a free society, an individual's decision from start to finish.

[ExPatty 502]

oh then you support planned parenthood. because that's what they do, provide birth control.

try looking at the services planned parenthood offers (way more than skull smashing) as giving women agency over their own body, instead of some vague 'us' trying to control who is having babies by their immediate economic status (which, can change greatly over the course of a child's life). i personally don't want to have any say so over any other person's decision to reproduce, i'd rather they make that decision themselves. don't you think there are plenty of rich women who shouldn't have children? and why is reproduction a matter of public opinion anyway? it is, well it should be - in a free society, an individual's decision from start to finish.

If PP would killing fetuses I'd be behind all the contraception stuff and family planning, sure. You know why reproduction is an interesting topic to others. It has nothing to do with controlling women, and has all to do with protecting the lives of the vulnerable who are in that woman.

Edited February 4, 2016 by ExPatty

[smilesammich 10,727]

If PP would killing fetuses I'd be behind all the contraception stuff and family planning, sure. You know why reproduction is an interesting topic to others. It has nothing to do with controlling women, and has all to do with protecting the lives of the vulnerable who are in that woman.

now that's funny right there. seriously.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

also makes sense that women are getting pregnant when they've no access to birth control.

and also, i hope you're joking about the whole pseudo eugenics bs..because lol.

So it's illegal for these chicks to purchase birth control? What does no access mean? That's just BS. Oh yes we don't pay for it so they are forced to get pregnant. What a liberal load of horse do do.

I bet they can afford nails nice clothes smart phones cigarettes so forth and so on.

Don't blame thier poor choices on my lack of paying for free stuff

[Expat1 971]

also makes sense that women are getting pregnant when they've no access to birth control.

No access to birth control? LOL seriously?

You're as bad as the picnic man

[smilesammich 10,727]

No access to birth control? LOL seriously?

You're as bad as the picnic man

again, ead.

[smilesammich 10,727]

So it's illegal for these chicks to purchase birth control? What does no access mean? That's just BS. Oh yes we don't pay for it so they are forced to get pregnant. What a liberal load of horse do do.

I bet they can afford nails nice clothes smart phones cigarettes so forth and so on.

Don't blame thier poor choices on my lack of paying for free stuff

i really don't know what you're going on about, but it's clear you know nothing about planned parenthood. highly doubtful you even read the op.

[Expat1 971]

again, ead.

gfu. Post some pics

[Expat1 971]

i really don't know what you're going on about, but it's clear you know nothing about planned parenthood. highly doubtful you even read the op.

It's pretty clear you know nothing about birth control