During the 2005 Texas legislative session, anti-choice Texas lawmakers forced an unprecedented rider onto the state budget. This rider cut a total of $5 million from family planning funding over the biennium (FYs 2006-2007) and shifted the money from preventive health screening and contraceptive services into unlicensed and unregulated crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). Now, over two years later, the program this rider created has proved itself to be a controversial, failed experiment with a multi-million dollar cost to Texas taxpayers.

Follow the link below to download NARAL Pro-Choice Texas' 2008 report Taxpayer Funded Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Texas: A Hidden Threat to Women's Health.