Texas official to retire after criticizing Planned Parenthood cuts

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:38pm EST

Texas official to retire after criticizing Planned Parenthood cuts

AUSTIN, TEXAS | BY JON HERSKOVITZ

A senior Texas health official who co-authored a report that criticized the state's funding cuts to Planned Parenthood for reducing access to reproductive healthcare will retire from his post next month, a Texas commission said on Friday.

Rick Allgeyer, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's director of research, faced criticism from the state's Republican leaders over the report published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine this month. The report said state funding cuts to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates had an adverse effect on family planning for lower-income people.

Allgeyer is eligible to retire and decided to do so effective on March 31, the commission said. Allgeyer, who has been at the commission for 16 years and was one of the study's five listed authors, declined to comment.

In 2011, the Texas state legislature cut Planned Parenthood out of one family-planning program and revamped the way another program hands out funds, placing it and other private clinics at the bottom of the list.

Top Texas political leaders have said after cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood that the state has been able to rebuild its safety net.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-plannedparenthood-idUSKCN0VS28P

[Gothmog]

1. It is tough living in Texas at times

[Rex]

2. Sigh. We have the Spanish Inquisition here in Texas aka Republican leaders.

Repukes seem to like living in the Dark Ages.