Killing Planned Parenthood support will kill real women

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Women's access to affordable health care will be reduced if the state follows through with its plan to eschew federal funding for the Women’s Health Program and create a state program instead, according to a new study from George Washington University.

The study, a follow-up to a May report from the university on Texas women's health, examines the impact of excluding Planned Parenthood from the state Women’s Health Program in Bexar, Dallas, Hidalgo, Lubbock and Midland counties.

The Women’s Health Program operates under a Medicaid waiver and serves more than 100,000 low-income women. Starting Nov. 1, the state plans to exclude Planned Parenthood affiliated health clinics from the program. To do so, it will have to give up federal money, which funds 90 percent of the $36 million program, because the plan violates federal requirements that patients be able to choose their providers.