2 Texas researchers under fire for Planned Parenthood study

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press via Washington Post

By Paul J. Weber?|?AP February 10 at 9:12 PM

AUSTIN, Texas — Two state health researchers in Texas are under fire for co-authoring a study suggesting what Republican leaders have long disputed: cuts to Planned Parenthood are restricting access to women’s health care.

Texas Health Commissioner Chris Traylor has not said whether the researchers, one a high-level director with more than 20 years in state government, will be disciplined. But a spokesman made it clear that the agency agrees with outraged Republicans over the researchers’ contributions to a study that the GOP sees as flawed and biased.

The study was published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prominent medical journals in the nation. It found that fewer women in Texas have obtained long-acting birth control, such as intrauterine devices, after the GOP-controlled Legislature booted the nation’s largest abortion provider from a state women’s health program in 2013. Births paid for under Medicaid also increased among some women.

Powerful Republican state Sen. Jane Nelson dismissed the findings as invalid, in part because the research was funded by the nonprofit Susan T. Buffet Foundation, which is a major supporter of Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/2-texas-researchers-under-fire-for-planned-parenthood-study/2016/02/10/e03e31de-d064-11e5-90d3-34c2c42653ac_story.html

[cantbeserious]

1. Too Sad To Comment

eom

[Scalded Nun]

2. Do not confuse or piss off Texas Republicans

with facts or the truth.

As they say down here, 'there is a special place in hell for the truth'

Oh, wait...

[shadowmayor]

3. The Stars at Night

Lemme see here - the Texas Health Commissioner is contemplating disciplinary actions for two health researchers for conducting some research? Yep, that'd be Texas style fuzzy math for sure. The state is slowly turning purple, but incrementalism sucks. Time for some revolution. Hopefully the democratic party will go grass-roots and bring the "unwashed" to the polls. Oh yeah, this is Texas we're talking about. Texas - the state with so much potential coupled with a huge dose of ineptitude and inertia. And a massive amount of neglect from the Democratic Party. That's why Wendy Davis ain't the governor and asshat Abbott and his band of ne'er do wells now run Texas. It's all so damned pathetic.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Telling the truth gets you punished nowadays.

Republicans put compulsory lying into legislation. Like not letting the CDC investigate gun violence as a public health problem. Like making doctors lie to their patients about the effects of abortion. Like denying climate change, because all those scientists are obviously paid off by somebody to lie.

Because they don't want facts, they want their fantasy world.

"Reality has a liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert

[vkkv]

5. God will Fuck you up! At You Tube

[gregcrawford]

9. HALL-AY-FUCKIN-LOO-YAH!

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R for exposure. nt

[SleeplessinSoCal]

7. Some people need to live and let live rather than destroy women's lives

They have no empathy for those without money and think abortion and birth control interchangeable.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. At least there's this.

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/02/federal-judge-destroys-daleidens-claims

[Vinca]

10. They need a study about how many unwanted pregnancies Texas has caused and how many women

have traveled elsewhere to get abortions. I'm betting the Texas GOP has, in the end, increased the number of abortions overall. If you restrict access to contraception, sex doesn't stop.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Why I'll never step foot in Texas again.

[lark]

13. Wish I could say the same.

Almost all of mom's side of the family is there so I expect I will visit again. However, I have learned the hard way not to stop at small out of the way restraurants if my son is with me (long hair) because of the frightening harassment we've experienced there and in MS and LA, over the years. It's been many years since this happened, but the lesson is learned and I won't take another chance.

[Wuddles440]

12. Isn't it interesting...

that the Rethugs "governing" this third world country (Texas) dismiss the research as being "invalid" because it was funded by a group that "supports" Planned Parenthood, but they embrace a fraudulent video by the anti-abortion group, Center for Medical Progress, produced by two non-medical professionals that are now under indictment. The hypocrisy by these knuckle-draggers is just mind-boggling.