the following year a university of texas study found nearly half the women who ended a pregnancy in texas that year, said they had been unable to get the contraception they wanted to use. texas republicans were so bent on not spending anything for family planning that even with the cuts that shut down those dozens of clinics, they held back even the little bit of state money that was left, they left more than $2 million sitting there in the account that used to pay for the services while dozens of clinics turned off the lights and women stopped getting cancer screenings and tens of thousands of women got pregnant went they didn't want to because they lost the contraception they could get through health clinics. what texas republicans did to health care for the women in that state was a policy debacle, on a national scale, just