"The “Alternatives to Abortion” program under the Texas Health and Human Services has seen a budget increase every two years since its inception. For the 2022-2023 biennial budget earlier this year, there was a 25% increase from $80 million to $100 million." 1/4
"This program addresses financial and material needs of pregnant women and parents. The website lists examples of services: Counseling, mentoring, educational information and classes on pregnancy, parenting, adoption, life skills and employment readiness." 2/4
"Material assistance, such as car seats, clothing, diapers and formula.
Care coordination through referrals to government assistance programs and other social services programs....
Housing and support services through maternity homes." 3/4
"Additionally, the budget increased the following:
$135.5 million for various mental health programs
$10.2 million for women’s health programs....
$164.2 million relating to foster care
$57.6 million for combatting human trafficking" bit.ly/3ifD9zC
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The tide is turning. A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that only 43% of likely U.S. voters oppose the new Texas law that effectively prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. 46% support the #TexasHeartbeatAct. 11% are undecided. #prolife
#Prolife and #Prochoice, let's help the women who don't want an abortion, but feel they don't have any other choice.
A new Rasmussen Reports national survey finds that only 43% of likely U.S. voters oppose the new Texas law that effectively prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. 46% support the #TexasAbortionLaw. 11% are undecided. rasmussenreports.com/public_content…
#UnplannedPregnancy in Texas? There are many sources of help. For WIC pregnant woman’s household is increased by the number of infants she is expecting. texaswic.org/apply
Annunciation Maternity Home in Georgetown, TX provides housing and related services to young mothers facing an unplanned pregnancy thematernityhome.org/about-us/
@StudentsforLife "We have also denounced Margaret Sanger’s racist and ableist statements. We commit to dismantling
institutional and structural racism and the very real ways racism affects the health of Black women.” theintell.com/story/opinion/…
@StudentsforLife Former Planned Parenthood Director #FayeWattleton “I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.”
Black employees at #PP reported continuous racist encounters with their white colleagues, "when these instances were reported to the organization’s human resources department, there was 'no meaningful consequence or accountability for racial harm.'"bit.ly/370bLPu
The data in the image below, taken directly from #PlannedParenthood annual reports from 2006 to 2016, reveal that health care services at the nation’s largest abortion business have been dropping for years: