In the blog titled Rick Perry Caves, Claims State Has $35M to Fund Planned Parenthood-less Women's Health Program available on Burnt Orange Report, author Katherine Haenschen writes about pressure on the women’s health plan in Texas. In the blog Katherine states that Perry states that he plans on making sure that he can pull together the funds in order to keep the Women’s Health Program intact but also plans on cutting out funding for Planned Parenthood. Katherine points out specifically how large of a budget deficit Texas is already experiencing but yet Perry is persistent in trying to “plug the holes in the budget.” Well those holes will certainly be hard to plug being there are no funds to plug them with.
In my opinion Katherine has a large span of an intended audience. This blog could grab the interest of women, low income families, voters and taxpayers. Katherine also points out in her blog that Perry is using women's health funding as a political game. Due to the large span of audience, the author certainly has the attention of many different groups which she can persuade to also believe that Perry is indeed playing a political gain.
Katherine points out information that CPPP has found during their research that a 150,000 women have already been effected by this funding be reduced and if another reduction were to take place then 80% of women could loose the care they are needed and cannot afford. Once the public was made aware of what Perry was intending to do it of course caused a great concern from the public and caused Perry to retract his initial proposal regarding the shut down of the women’s health program funding. Only time will tell if Perry is truly using this is a political game or he will make sure that funding stays intact.
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