Governor Perry has led the effort to invest millions of dollars in biotechnology and the health care of tomorrow, leveraging the Emerging Technology Fund to help get new technology, treatments and cures to market more quickly. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, funded by Texas voters in 2007, will distribute $3 billion in funding to fight cancer over the next 10 years. Through common sense laws and the spirit of innovation, Texas is well-positioned for the future of health care.

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»  The governor ceremonially signed Senate Bill 98, which establishes a health science center and medical school in South Texas.

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• Monday, April 30, 2012 • Austin, Texas • Press Release
  Statement by Gov. Perry’s Press Secretary Regarding WHP Injunction
  Texas has a long history of protecting life, and we are confident in Attorney General Abbott's appeal to defend the will of Texans and our state law, which prohibits taxpayer funds from supporting abortion providers and affiliates in the Women's Health Program, Gov. Perry's Press Secretary Catherine Frazier said.
• Monday, March 26, 2012 • Austin, Texas • Press Release
  Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on U.S. Supreme Court Hearing on Obamacare
  Today is a landmark moment in the ongoing struggle against the Obama Administration's continued pattern of massive federal overreach and consolidation of power, as well as the resulting erosion of individual liberties, Gov. Perry said.
• Friday, March 23, 2012 • Austin, Texas • Noteworthy
  Obamacare: Nothing to Celebrate
  Two years ago today, President Obama signed into law his vision of health care reform, a far-ranging and ever-more-expensive collection of price fixing and individual mandates that will forever be known as Obamacare. Now, according to tradition, cotton is known as the gift for a second anniversary. But what do you get a federal government that wants to control everything? Unfortunately, the answer is more of your hard earned tax dollars.
• Wednesday, March 21, 2012 • Austin, Texas • Press Release
  ICYMI: Texas Members of Congress Call on Obama Administration to Reverse Decision Ending Women’s Health Program
  Thirteen Texas Congressmen today rallied against the Obama Administration's latest attempt to erode Texas' 10th Amendment rights in a letter questioning the administration's attack on the Women's Health Program due to a long-standing state law prohibiting tax dollars from going to abortion providers and their affiliates, like Planned Parenthood.
• Thursday, March 15, 2012 • Austin, Texas • Press Release
  Statement by Gov. Rick Perry on Obama Administration’s Denial of Health Care to More Than 100,000 Texas Women
  It is the height of political posturing for the Obama Administration to put the interests of abortion providers and their affiliates, like Planned Parenthood, over the well-being of more than 100,000 low-income Texas women. I will not stand by and let this Administration abandon these Texas women to advance its political agenda; Texas will fund these services with or without the federal government, Gov. Perry said.
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