Taxpayer Funded Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Texas: A Hidden Threat to Women's Health

Last week, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas Foundation released their third annual report: Taxpayer Funded Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Texas: A Hidden Threat to Women's Health.  This 2008 report "provides an overview of what a crisis pregnancy center (CPC) is and what it isn't, why public funding for its services is controversial and detrimental to the health of Texas women, and why Texans should be seriously concerned about the lack of accountability and regulation in the use of millions of dollars of taxpayer money." According to the report:

During the 2005 Texas legislative session, anti-choice Texas lawmakers forced an unprecedented rider onto the state budget. This rider cut a total of $5 million from family planning funding over the biennium (FYs 2006-2007) and shifted the money from preventive health screening and contraceptive services into unlicensed and unregulated crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). Now, over two years later, the program this rider created has proved itself to be a controversial, failed experiment with a multi-million dollar cost to Texas taxpayers.

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