New app details family planning cuts on local level

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Researchers at the on Wednesday released a new Web app and database detailing the toll that massive funding cuts have had on family planning clinics across the state.Touted as the deepest data dive of its kind in Texas, the app combines information on everything from sexually transmitted infections, teen fertility rates, the number of women served and those who might seek help.The app also breaks data down by county and by House and Senate districts to emphasize local impact."It's helpful for decision makers or for anyone who is trying to understand the impact of the cuts," said , the lead researcher cheap uggs for the app project. "Texas is a really big place and we don't necessarily understand the local impact of things happening to the state as a whole."The digital tool is part awareness campaign for the general public and will be used as a lobbying tool. Organizers say they plan to start hitting the Capitol with the app in hand to show lawmakers exactly how the cuts are hurting their districts.The goal: Getting the Legislature to restore funding for family planning services after lawmakers in 2011 gutted such programs by roughly twothirds, reducing funding from $111 million ugg black friday sale to $37.9 million.A Senate budget approved last month restored $100 million in funds to reverse the devastating 2011 familyplanning cuts.The House takes up the budget Thursday and is expected to keep that funding in tact, said , chair of the 's , a group dedicated to restoring funding for family planning services."That's a very positive development for this session," Realini said, noting that the $100 million injection will also fund programs outside the realm of family planning services. "I'd be surprised to get more."Statewide, the data released Wednesday by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project shows that 56 out of 288 clinics that received public funding to provide family planning have closed since the Legislature slashed funding, while 61 other clinics no longer receive family planning funding from the state.The state overall prevented roughly 30,000 fewer unintended pregnancies.In Bexar County, clinic closures were averted altogether, according to the data.The number of unintended pregnancies prevented by funding provided by the was estimated to fall from 2,329 in 2010 to only 980."Different parts of the state had different impacts," Realini said. "Even though we haven't seen any clinic closures, what we've seen in Bexar County is a dramatic reduction in the amount of services."In Harris County, researchers found two clinics were forced to shutter as a result of the spending cuts, while eight other DSHSsupported clinics are now operating without state funding in 2012..

 
 
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