Lupe Valdez - Lupe Valdez says 1 in 4 Texas clinics closed after lawmakers cut family planning aid

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez tied state spending cuts on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s watch to a plummet in women’s health services. In an online survey that came our way from Valdez on May 7, 2018, respondents were asked to mark their level of worry in response to this query: "Over the past decade, the GOP in Texas and across the country have been destroying women’s healthcare in every way they can in order to appease their special interest donors. After Texas cut their two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors." Those ...