Latest Fact-Checks By Andy East

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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."

Mostly False

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."

Half-True

By Andy East • November 6, 2015