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The Texas Tribune on what happens when you gut state family planning funding:
"Operating in a region with a limited donor base and high need for health services, Gonzales said, the [Texas] clinics have relied heavily on government financing. So when state cuts to family planning took effect in September, the Hidalgo County network lost a $3.1 million contract and was forced to lay off half its staff and shut down four of its facilities. (Another five clinics have closed around the state since the beginning of September.) Gonzales estimated that the closures would affect approximately 16,000 low-income men, women and teens in the Rio Grande Valley."
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