This has been a really bad year for Texas women, but it is also important to remember that 2013 is only the most recent in a series of really bad years for Texas women.

State lawmakers passed a two-year budget during the 2011 legislative session that cut $73 million from family planning programs, and Rick Perry dissolved the state’s partnership with the federal Women’s Health Program the following year, forfeiting millions in Medicaid funding for low-income women’s healthcare.

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At the time, the Texas Legislative Budget Board estimated that the cuts would cause thousands of women to lose access to family planning services and low-cost healthcare, which is precisely what is happening right now.

As Andrew Grimes reports at RH Reality Check, the Republican-led "reforms" to the program have resulted in a 77 percent drop in the number of women being served by state health clinics and increased costs for this care by close to 20 percent.

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