Texas escalates fight againt Planned Parenthood

There can be no doubt that the fight against Planned Parenthood is coordinated.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott just released two opinions expected to force Planned Parenthood out of the state's Women's Health Program, which provides family planning, but not abortions, to Medicaid patients.

In the first opinion, Abbott said that under state law, the Health and Human Services Commission "may not contract with entities that are affiliates of entities that perform or promote elective abortions." (This means, effectively, that HHSC can't provide women's health services through a Planned Parenthood branch — even if that branch doesn't perform abortions — because it's "affiliated" with clinics that do.)

republicans just hate women. Let them be barefoot and pregnant.