Texas

Campaign for

Women’s

Health


Get the Facts

Target Population

Co-Sponsors

Legislative Priorities

Women’s Health and
Family Planning
Association of Texas


PO Box 3868
Austin TX, 78764
512-448-4857 (voice)
512-448-3373 (fax)
TCWH@whfpt.org
www.whfpt.org/TCWH
The Texas Campaign for Women’s Health is committed to seeing that the women of Texas have access to the care necessary to insure their health and well-being, and to securing new funding so that more low-income adult women in Texas have access to mammography, testing and ambulatory treatment for cervical cancer, diagnosis and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, birth control, osteoporosis prevention education and hormone replacement therapy.

Let your voice be heard!

Women's Health Lobby Day
Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Noon: Advocacy Training and Issue Briefing at Hyatt on Town Lake
1:30pm: Depart for Capitol
2:00pm - 4:00pm: Group visit to the Governor's office and pre-scheduled small group visits with individual legislators
Later that evening...Debrief and socialize!! (location to be determined)

Download the
Women's Health Lobby Day
information and registration form in PDF!
(Free Adobe Acrobat Reader)




TAKE ACTION NOW!

Print out our postcard supporting a Medicaid Waiver For Women's Health. Fax it to us at 512-448-3373 and we'll deliver boxes of them to Governor Perry and Health and Human Services Commissioner, Don Gilbert.

Download the waiver postcard in PDF!
(Free Adobe Acrobat Reader)


Positive outcomes:

  • Healthier women and healthier families,
  • Decreased health care costs due to early detection and treatments of diseases and infections,
  • Fewer women and families on welfare; as unintended pregnancies are the leading cause of welfare dependency in Texas.
  • Fewer unintended pregnancies and Medicaid paid births,
  • Lower abortion rates,
  • Decreased financial burden on local community health care resources, and
  • Decrease in incidence of the accompanying health and social risks of unintended pregnancies, such as delayed prenatal care, low-birth weight babies, child abuse or neglect and family violence.