Texas Observer

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Paxton’s list also includes a “comprehensive statute” that would ban taxpayer dollars from paying for abortions, except that no state money goes toward paying for abortion services, and hasn’t since 2007, when the Legislature passed what’s known as the “affiliate ban,” prohibiting state money from going to health care entities affiliated with abortion providers (read: Planned Parenthood). Over the last several sessions, the Legislature has written Planned Parenthood’s non-abortion-providing health centers out of all state health programs, compromising access to preventive cancer screenings, contraception, and STD testing for the lowest income Texans. To me, and to women I’ve met all over the state who have struggled to access basic health care amidst the political fight to defund Planned Parenthood, you can’t get more “comprehensive” than that, but it looks like Paxton intends to try.