Texas Reproductive Health Cuts Deny Women Access to Care
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About a quarter of state-funded family-planning clinics in Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley closed after funding was cut in 2011, forcing women to forgo breast exams, Pap smears and contraception, according to a report by an advocacy group.
The spending reductions, which came before lawmakers approved new restrictions on abortion this year, have been especially deep in counties on the southeastern border with Mexico, one of the poorest regions in the U.S., according to the report today by the Center for Reproductive Rights and National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.