Take that sluts

[Trainwreck2100]

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Texas can cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics that provide health services to low-income women before a trial over a new law that bans state money from going to organizations tied to abortion providers.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans lifted a federal judge's temporary injunction calling for the funding to continue pending an October trial on Planned Parenthood's challenge to the law.

Texas officials sought to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood clinics that provide family planning and health services to poor women after the state's Republican-led Legislature passed a law banning funds to organizations linked to abortion providers. No state money goes to pay for abortions.

Planned Parenthood sued, saying the law violates its free speech rights. The Texas attorney general argued lawmakers may decide which organizations receive state funds.

The judge in Austin recently ruled that the funding should continue pending the trial on Planned Parenthood's lawsuit, saying there's sufficient evidence the state's law is unconstitutional.

The appeals court's decision comes as conservative groups across the nation try to pass and enforce laws to put Planned Parenthood out of business and make getting an abortion more difficult. Earlier this year the same court upheld a new Texas law requiring doctors to perform a sonogram and provide women with a detailed description of the fetus before carrying out an abortion.

The latest battle involves the Texas Women's Health Care Program, which is designed to provide services to women who might not otherwise qualify for Medicaid. The state paid for roughly $5 million for the program with the federal government paying $35 million.

The federal Commission on Medicare and Medicaid Services, however, warned Texas against banning groups from the program based on their political activities and the federal government cut funding. Gov. Rick Perry has promised the state will pick up the extra cost.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/21/court-rules-texas-can-cut-off-state-funds-for-planned-parenthood/#ixzz24Fbmt5T3


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Love beating women


Gov. Rick Perry has promised the state will pick up the extra cost.

wait .............what

[The Reckoning]

and rick perry's totalitarian regime continues

[Jacob1983]

Let's see how long this lasts.

[boutons_deux]

"The state paid for roughly $5 million for the program with the federal government paying $35 million.

Gov. Rick Perry has promised the state will pick up the extra cost."

Repugs won't pay.

That's why the Repugs everywhere want "block grants" of federal money so they can punish the orgs they don't like, esp browns, blacks, poor, cripples, old people, while giving the money to their cronies.

eg, Repug states are using Fed money intended to help homeowners by dumping it into the states' general funds (to pay for the tax cuts to businesses).

[boutons_deux]

Using anti-abortion as a smoke screen, Repugs continue their scorched-earth War on Women (aka sluts)

Marco Rubio Seeks to Deny Disabled Women Access to Full Reproductive Health Care

A rare bipartisan effort underway in the Senate — to ratify a United Nations treaty on disability rights — has become the latest target of politicians who would like to undermine a woman’s ability to make personal health care decisions.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) guarantees non-discrimination for persons with disabilities worldwide and is consistent with disability rights protections already guaranteed in the United States, most notably the protections afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act.


The CRPD is clearly about non-discrimination and is especially important in the protection of the rights of women with disabilities.

“I think one of the very important things about this treaty is that it recognizes the unique challenges that women face — that women with disabilities face,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NC) during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee mark-up of the convention. “In many countries not only are they challenged by their gender, but they’re challenged by the fact that they have disabilities. The treaty’s focus on the particular needs of women with disabilities really mirrors what has happened in the United States. We are a leader in standing up for the rights of all women.”

The Rubio amendment, on the other hand, states:

The United States understands that the phrase ‘sexual and reproductive health’ in Article 25(a) of the Convention does not include abortion, and its use in that article does not create any abortion rights, cannot be interpreted to constitute support, endorsement, or promotion of abortion, and in no way suggests that abortion be promoted as a method of family planning.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/08/21/what-does-disabilities-rights-treaty-have-to-do-with-abortion?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhrealitycheck+%28RH+Reality+ Check%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Repugs love to regulate sluts' vaginas.