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Don't Mess With Texas Women (Austin Rally 3/13)
Don't Mess With Texas Women
Your voices are being heard. As the Women’s Health Express tours Texas giving a voice to women impacted by the latest attack on women’s health care, Governor Perry suggested that he will find funding for the Medicaid Women’s Health Program that he has targeted for elimination.
The Medicaid Women’s Health Program provides essential health screenings and birth control to more than 130,000 low-income women in Texas, including more than 2,300 Austin women who received free health exams at Planned Parenthood's E. 7th Street health center through this program last year.
This attack on the Medicaid Women’s Health Program follows Governor Perry’s elimination of two-thirds of Texas’ family planning budget that resulted in 300,000 low-income Texas women losing access to life-saving cancer screenings, birth control, prevention and treatment of STDs, and other essential health exams.
Can Governor Rick Perry be trusted when it comes to women’s health?
Join Cecile Richards, Carolyn Wonderland, Marcia Ball, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Colin Gilmore and others to stand up for women’s health at the Texas State Capitol Tuesday, March 13th at 6:30pm, and tell Governor Perry to stop playing politics with women's health!
The Women's Health Express is visiting 16 cities across Texas in 9 days and the final stop will be in Austin, next Tuesday.
Join us so that the message is loud and clear- Enough is enough--Stop playing politics with women’s health care.
We hope to see you Tuesday!
Sarah Wheat and Pam Smallwood
Interim Co-CEOs
Your voices are being heard. As the Women’s Health Express tours Texas giving a voice to women impacted by the latest attack on women’s health care, Governor Perry suggested that he will find funding for the Medicaid Women’s Health Program that he has targeted for elimination.
The Medicaid Women’s Health Program provides essential health screenings and birth control to more than 130,000 low-income women in Texas, including more than 2,300 Austin women who received free health exams at Planned Parenthood's E. 7th Street health center through this program last year.
This attack on the Medicaid Women’s Health Program follows Governor Perry’s elimination of two-thirds of Texas’ family planning budget that resulted in 300,000 low-income Texas women losing access to life-saving cancer screenings, birth control, prevention and treatment of STDs, and other essential health exams.
Can Governor Rick Perry be trusted when it comes to women’s health?
Join Cecile Richards, Carolyn Wonderland, Marcia Ball, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Colin Gilmore and others to stand up for women’s health at the Texas State Capitol Tuesday, March 13th at 6:30pm, and tell Governor Perry to stop playing politics with women's health!
The Women's Health Express is visiting 16 cities across Texas in 9 days and the final stop will be in Austin, next Tuesday.
Join us so that the message is loud and clear- Enough is enough--Stop playing politics with women’s health care.
We hope to see you Tuesday!
Sarah Wheat and Pam Smallwood
Interim Co-CEOs
