Judge rejects Planned Parenthood s bid to stay in Medicaid, affecting thousands of low-income Texans
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Planned Parenthood advocates rallied outside of the Capitol in April. A bill meant to prevent tax money from going to abortion providers has some health care advocates worried that other health programs may be cut. Juan Figueroa/The Texas Tribune
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Low-income patients will no longer be able to use Medicaid to get nonabortion health services at Planned Parenthood, after a Wednesday court decision said Texas can move forward with kicking the health provider out of its Medicaid program.
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Texas Proposal Would Allow Death Penalty for Having or Performing Abortions
A lawmaker in Texas has introduced a proposal that would enable prosecutors in the state to seek the death penalty for women who have abortions.
HB 3326 would abolish abortion in Texas, state Rep. Bryan Slaton, a Republican, wrote in a social media statement.
“The bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small,” he said.
Formally known as the Abolition of Abortion through Equal Protection for All Unborn Children Act, the bill states that Texas is a free and independent state and that “the sanctity of innocent human life created in the image of God … should be equally protected from fertilization to natural death.”