Stage Three: End of Women's Health Program?

February 23rd, 2012, CBS DFW posts Texas Defies Feds on Funding For Women's Clinics. The article states that the health department is going to take action in order to enforce a new Texas law that states funds cannot be provided to "...a clinic that is affiliated with an organization that provides abortions, even if that institution does not provide abortions itself." Some believe that the law is mainly targeted towards Planned Parenthood, one of the main clinics who works with abortion organizations. The state is not able to "pick and choose" the clinics in the Women's Health Program, creating a controversy for those against the law.

This is ridiculous to deny these clinics funding, because help with abortion is not all they provide. Cutting off funding will cut off help to the other population of women who seek help for other health related problems that aren't abortion. It seems as if it is a never ending war with the subject of abortion. For the state to go through all this trouble in order to try and put an end to something they see "inhumane". In order to satisfy their beliefs, they disregard the needs of others. 

The author, Andrea Lucia's intended audience seems to be the women of Texas as her article tends to point out the negatives of the law being passed. There doesn't seem to be much of an argument posed directly from the author herself. I agree with the article posted by the author, that the law will create a variety of problems for many women looking for health support and for the economical factor of the program.