We didn’t target or name PP in our law this year. We prioritized where the money for Family Planning and screening for breast and cervical cancer should go: to County Health, other clinics and hospitals that offer continuing comprehensive care.
We’ve had the law for years requiring recipients to not refer or perform abortions, but the enforcement about those referrals and business arrangements got stricter and we have new law that prohibits county and city health from receiving Texas Taxpayer money if they perform abortions otherwise, using other funds. (Austin/Travis County performed nearly 400 abortions a year, using tax money, but changed their policy in response to the new law — that doesn’t have the “rape and incest” exception.)
Does not federal law prohibit federal money being spent on Abortion? IS not Obama implicitly demanding Texas violate the law for federal money and thus also violating the law himself?