| The war on women waged with gusto last year under the dome of the Texas Capitol has claimed at least one legislative aide. Allison Catalano, who began working for Denton GOP Rep. Myra Crownover last summer, resigned her post this week, citing Crownover's support for cuts to women's health funding.
In a letter to Crownover, Catalano wrote that she decided to resign her position because of "recent decisions made by you, Representative Crownover, along with other legislators" related to the draconian cuts to the women's health budget. Republican lawmakers led the attack on that budget, striping two-thirds of the roughly $100 million biennial budget typically slated to pay for basic preventative and reproductive family-planning health care for hundreds of thousands of low-income and uninsured Texas women. Lawmakers said the point of the cuts was to cripple Planned Parenthood... |
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