Planned Parenthood’s presence in Texas has reduced significantly

According to Texas, it has been successfully able rebuild a safety net without Planned Parenthood. But according to independent health experts, the state will take a long time before it can reach a level when Planned Parenthood was a vital part of its family planning efforts.

The government has come up with the new system after four years of cutting funding for Planned Parenthood. The state's retooled family-planning programs are even considered as a model for Republicans in Congress who want to end funding for Planned Parenthood at a national level.

As per the data provided by Texas health officers, the new programs has covered 317,393 women in 2014, which is almost equivalent to 320,044 women covered in 2010 when the funding was not cut from Planned Parenthood.

Lesley French looks after women's health programs at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. French was of the view that now there is an access for ever woman in Texas for any service she requires.

Though critics were not in favor of Planned Parenthood for quite a long time as it provided abortion along with contraception and other services for women, it is now that things become quite bad as videos were found showing Planned Parenthood officials talking about providing fetal parts for research.

Last month, Governor Greg Abbott said that he will ban Planned Parenthood from taking part in all Medicaid programs in Texas. Now, Planned Parenthood's presence in the states has declined a lot.