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Andy East is a reporting intern for the Austin American-Statesman's state desk.

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Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 in an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”:

After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."

By Andy East • November 24, 2015
Greenville Gazette
stated on February 1, 2015 in an article:

Texas legislation "would allow… teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed."

By Andy East • November 6, 2015

UPDATED: Curious claims we heard at the Texas Tribune Festival

By W. Gardner Selby • October 18, 2015