Defunded Planned Parenthood Reassures Supporters It Has Enough Fetus Cash To Keep Going
http://www.theonion.com/article/defu...orters-i-51662
Abbott's Christian Taliban shock troops doin' the Lord's work
Texas officials raid Planned Parenthood health centers — but won’t say why
Texas officials raided several Planned Parenthood facilities on Thursday, the group said, in a move that comes days after the state’s Republicans leaders barred the women’s health group from receiving state Medicaid money.The raids were carried out at Planned Parenthood health centers in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio by representatives from the Texas Office of the Inspector General.
The Inspector General’s office declined to comment. Its agents were seen on local news reports entering a Planned Parenthood facility in San Antonio.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said this week “the gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed,”
but so far the state has released no evidence of illegal activity by the group.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/texa...e+Raw+Story%29
Texas and Texans are so ed up
Texas officials raid several Planned Parenthood offices, demand addresses of employees
Some of the information they were seeking is both bizarre and possibly dangerous for Planned Parenthood employees. From Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Chief Executive Officer Ken Lambrecht:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1...s?detail=email
Lambrecht said Texas had requested what Planned Parenthood sees as unnecessary information such as the home addresses of all its employees as well as their salaries and bonuses.
Norwegians would say: That's Texas!
Texas Orders Health Clinics to Turn Over Patient Data
Some, but not all, of the extensive records sought by the state related specifically to abortion.
Planned Parenthood South Texas was told to produce five years of records — whether electronic, paper or ultrasound — concerning any patients billed to Medicaid who had an abortion in which any part of the fetus was removed or preserved for research use. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast was to turn over a complete copy of certain patients’ records, including doctors’ orders, nursing notes and lab tests, as well as the center’s appointment books, patient sign-in sheets and contracts.
he said the state had determined that the group was “no longer capable of performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner.”
the state had found a pattern of illegal billing practices that amounted to Medicaid fraud.
“This is a gross invasion of client privacy, and I’m tired of watching low-income women become collateral damage in attacks on Planned Parenthood that are based on deceptive videos and political grandstanding,” State Senator José Rodríguez,
But after Texas barred Planned Parenthood from participating in the state’s Women’s Health Program two years ago, a state health department report found that the program served 30,000 fewer women,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/us/in-planned-parenthood-fight-texas-searches-records-unrelated-to-abortion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Violating patients' right to medical privacy OBVIOUSLY is meant to intimidate patients from visiting PP.
The Repug/Christian TALIBAN bringing their authoritarian jackboots down on PP and their patients on trumped up charges and bull videos the Repugs take as Bible truth.
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GOP Ready For Another Defeat as Rep. Blackburn Will Lead Abortion Investigation
U.S. GOP Rep Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) will head a select investigative panel on “big abortion providers”.
House Speaker John Boehner announced on Friday that Blackburn would be tasked with the leading the inquiry.Boehner stated:
Chairman Blackburn and our members will have the resources and the subpoena power to get to the bottom of these horrific practices, and build on our work to protect the sanc y of all human life.As with the Benghazi investigation, Republicans attempted to describe the panel as embarking upon a fact-finding mission rather than a political witch hunt. Blackburn opined:
Despite her innocuous rhetoric, the panel will be stacked with right-wing anti choice zealots.
This will be a broad-based, information gathering, fact finding mission to answer questions about how we treat and protect life in this country.
Blackburn will be joined on the committee by fellow GOP representatives
Larry Buschon (IN-8),
Andy Harris (MD-1),
Vicky Hartzler (MO-4),
Joe Pitts (PA-16),
Mia Love (UT-4) and
Sean Duffy (WI-7).
The Republicans do not seem to have learned any lessons from the thumping they took from Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings. Rather than lick their wounds and devise a new political approach, they have decided to continue creating investigative panels to grill people they disagree with.
Republicans keep desperately hoping to manufacture a scandal that they can use to hurt liberals and Democrats.
Instead, however, the GOP is setting up another politically embarrassing inquest that will end up backfiring against them, much like the Benghazi panel boomeranged against the Republicans on Thursday.
Marsha Blackburn is an extremist and a “birther”, who isn’t known for her command of factual information, so putting her in charge of a fact-finding expedition is fraught with peril for the GOP.
The odds of the committee looking foolish are astronomically high with Blackburn at the helm.
If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results, then the House GOP must be regarded as insane. Just one day after getting humiliated in a marathon Benghazi hearing, the House has decided to launch an investigation against abortion providers. Good luck with that.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/...iticus+USA+%29
So a vagina as chairperson, and two vaginas on the committee, supposedly to give credibility to the Repug scorched-earth War on Women, esp poor vaginas-of-color.
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Never heard of Marsha?
"Born Marsha Wedgeworth in Laurel, Mississippi,[citation needed] she attended Mississippi State University, earning a B.S.[2] in home economics"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Blackburn
Bobby Jindal Defeated As Federal Judge Orders Him To Restore Planned Parenthood Funding
Bobby Jindal has suffered another defeat as a federal judge has ordered him to restore all funding to his state’s Planned Parenthood.According to The Times-Picayune:
A federal judge has ordered Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration to continue paying Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Medicaid reimbursements for the foreseeable future.
On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley was blocked from defunding Planned Parenthood in his state. The Planned Parenthood “issue” has been a total bust for the GOP. However, this fact won’t stop House Republicans from appointing another special committee to “investigate” Planned Parenthood.
The Republican Party is losing in federal court. They are losing in the court of public opinion, and they will lose at the ballot box if they continue these baseless attacks on Planned Parenthood.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/...iticus+USA+%29
Federal court strikes down Wisconsin anti-abortion law similar to Texas statute
A Wisconsin law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is uncons utional, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday, addressing a topic the U.S. Supreme Court is considering during its current term.Abortion providers in Wisconsin had challenged the state law, which requires doctors to have privileges at a hospital within 30 miles (50 km). The law’s supporters said the measure ensures continuity of care while opponents say it serves almost no public health value and is intended to shut clinics.
A federal judge in March permanently blocked the Wisconsin law, ruling that the health benefits, if any, were outweighed by the burden on women’s health caused by restricted access to abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier in November agreed to take up a major abortion case for the first time since 2007. In that case, Texas abortion providers are challenging state requirements that they have admitting privileges and costly hospital-grade surgical facilities.
In the Wisconsin case, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said a statute that curtails the cons utional right to an abortion, such as the Wisconsin and Texas laws, cannot withstand challenge without evidence that it is justified by benefits.
The evidence presented to the Texas legislature and discussed in the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals was weak and was nonexistent in the Wisconsin case, Judge Richard Posner found in an opinion concurred in by Judge David Hamilton.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/fede...e+Raw+Story%29
Planned Parenthood sues Texas over threat to cut Medicaid funding
Planned Parenthood, other women’s health providers and a group of women in need of reproductive healthcare sued Texas on Monday, seeking to halt its threatened cut in Medicaid funding, a move they said was more about politics than healthcare.
The suit filed in federal court in Austin comes as Texas and several other Republican-controlled states try to cut funding for Planned Parenthood after an anti-abortion group released videos it said showed Planned Parenthood officials negotiating prices for fetal tissues from abortions it performs.
“By cancelling Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid contract, these politicians are telling women where they can and cannot go for reproductive healthcare. And let’s be clear: That is illegal and it’s a violation of federal law,” Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told a teleconference with reporters.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/plan...e+Raw+Story%29
RHRealitycheck Explains How Center For Medical Progress Is Desperate To Hide The Backers Behind Its Deceptive Planned Parenthood Videos
The anti-choice Center For Medical Progress (CMP) has secretly and possibly illegally recorded footage of abortion providers that was subsequently deceptively-edited to smear Planned Parenthood. The resulting videos have been heavily promoted by Fox news, which even went so far as to suggest CMP should qualify for a Pulitzer Prize.
However, CMP has been embroiled in a lawsuit with the National Abortion Federation based in part on the violation of confidentiality agreements it signed in order to participate in NAF's conferences under false pretenses.
On December 9, RHRealitycheck's Imani Gandy reported on the lengths CMP has gone to hide the funders and supporters of its campaign to smear Planned Parenthood, despite a court's determination that this information is necessary to determine if the anti-choice group was part of an illegal conspiracy.
[A]ny possibility that [Planned Parenthood] will be found to be in violation of policies regarding fetal tissue donation seems to be flickering out.
What remains, then, are questions about whether or not David Daleiden himself and the organizations he created--CMP and BioMax Procurement Services, the fake tissue procurement company--broke federal and state laws in connection with their crusade against Planned Parenthood, and who coordinated with Daleiden to perpetrate this alleged fraud.
These questions have been teed up in federal court in San Francisco, where a discovery battle has been raging between the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and Daleiden for several months.
"Discovery" is the process in litigation whereby parties to a lawsuit have to, essentially, lay their cards on the table and turn over information that the other side might need to support their claims or defense. And in the lawsuit that NAF filed against CMP, discovery is the process that could unravel a conspiracy involving multiple players all acting in concert to take down Planned Parenthood. Such players may include anti-choice extremists connected to groups like Live Action and Operation Rescue, in addition to some of the anti-choice politicians who jumped at the opportunity to hold congressional hearings and form investigative committees about Planned Parenthood's supposed das ly deeds.
[...]
Within weeks of the first video release, NAF filed a lawsuit in federal court against CMP, BioMax, David Daleiden, Troy Newman (the founder of radical anti-choice extremist group Operation Rescue), and a number of thus far unidentified alleged other parties. Among other civil and criminal allegations, the lawsuit alleges a conspiracy to defraud NAF, perpetrated for the purpose of intimidating and harassing abortion care providers.
Days after NAF filed its lawsuit, it won a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking CMP from releasing additional footage or other materials that NAF alleges CMP fraudulently acquired at NAF meetings. The judge who issued the temporary restraining order, William Orrick, also ordered CMP and Daleiden to provide responses to NAF's discovery requests: testimony, do ents, and other evidence that NAF needs in order to prove its case that the temporary restraining order should be converted into a preliminary injunction continuing to block the video release.
The most important information sought by NAF is probably the video recordings themselves, many of which were surrep iously recorded at private NAF events in violation of the explicit nondisclosure agreement that CMP members were required to sign before they could gain entrance into NAF's annual meetings in 2014 and 2015. The confidentiality agreements are one piece of an extensive security protocol that NAF put in place to protect attendees from anti-choice terrorism.
Daleiden and CMP maintain that the TRO and any preliminary injunction that the court might issue cons utes "prior restraint," or pre-publication censorship, in violation of the First Amendment. Daleiden believes that the confidentiality agreement that he signed is invalid because in his mind, NAF is an accomplice in Planned Parenthood's baby parts trafficking scheme.
NAF has countered, and thus far Judge Orrick seems to agree, that First Amendment rights can be waived by contract, which is exactly what Daleiden did.
And considering that no federal or state agency has found Planned Parenthood guilty of anything, Daleiden's continued insistence that he's an investigative journalist on a crusade to expose the illegal sale of aborted fetal tissue has begun to ring rather hollow.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12...medical/207391
Judge: No evidence of crimes in recordings of abortion group
Recordings secretly made by an anti-abortion group at meetings of abortion providers do not show criminal activity and could put the providers at risk, a federal judge said Friday, citing the recent shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick made the comments during a hearing over the National Abortion Federation's request for a preliminary injunction that would continue to block the release of the recordings. Orrick did not immediately issue a ruling.
He previously issued a temporary restraining order blocking the recordings pending the outcome of the preliminary injunction hearing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...218-story.html
Texas Boots Planned Parenthood from HIV Program
Texas just couldn’t end 2015 without one more jab at Planned Parenthood.
According to a press release from Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) in Houston, the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) did not renew the organization’s HIV Prevention Program funding for 2016. The program pays for HIV and STD education, counseling, screenings and other prevention services like condom distribution.
According to DSHS, more than 80,000 Texans are living with HIV, and in 2014, more than 4,000 Texans were newly diagnosed with the virus.
Funding for the HIV Prevention Program comes from the federal Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC), with Texas’ DSHS as the intermediary that funnels the money to community organizations. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast received $600,000 to provide HIV screenings in the Houston area, including Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.
According to the DSHS HIV Surveillance Report, 1,289 Harris County residents were diagnosed with HIV in 2014, the highest number of new cases that year across all 254 counties.
PPGC began providing HIV screenings 28 years ago and received a state grant to do so. The grant expires on December 31, 2015. Come January 1, 2016, the organization will no longer provide HIV screenings.
In a statement released today, PPGC CEO and president Melaney Linton called the news “devastating.”
“Our HIV Prevention Program team has tested tens of thousands of people in jails, bars, night clubs, college campuses and many other places across our service area,” she said. “The team helped people overcome their anxieties to get tested and learn their HIV status, and educated them on reducing their risk exposure.”
Requests for comment from DSHS and the CDC were not immediately returned.
Planned Parenthood officials said the organization will still provide STD testings at its health centers.
http://www.texasobserver.org/texas-b...m-hiv-program/
TX Repugs, TX Bible humpers are really nasty, vicious mother ers
Despite Soaring Support for Abortion Rights, Anti-Choice Crusade Continues
New poll conducted in wake of deadly attack on Planned Parenthood clinic finds public support for abortion rights at highest point in two years
Public support for legal abortion in the United States is at its highest point in two years, with nearly six out of ten people backing the reproductive right, according to a new poll(pdf) conducted in the wake of last month's mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic that killed three people.
The Associated Press and GfK, which jointly conducted the survey, found that 58 percent of respondents say abortion should be legal in "most or all" cases. This marks a jump from 51 percent at the beginning of the year. The poll is based on surveys of 1,007 adults conducted in early December, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Notably, the hike reflects an incremental rise in support among respondents who identify as Republican, with 40 percent backing legal abortion, up from 35 percent in January. Seventy-six percent of Democrats responded in the affirmative, compared to 54 percent of Independents.
during 2015 alone, state legislatures introduced nearly 400 bills and implemented 47 new laws restricting reproductive rights.
In many cases, state laws hike the costs, and slash access, to abortions, disproportionately impacting low-income communities and people of color. For example, 11 U.S. states restrict most coverage of abortion care in government insurance plans, according to a separate Guttmacher brief released earlier this month. And Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws—now in effect in 25 states—impose prohibitive requirements on providers, cutting off access.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/201...sade-continues
So, if you pro-birthers have the money, you can get any abortion, any time. So the Christian Taliban war on abortion is above all a war on poor women "breeding" or just having sex.
Yes, Chelsea Clinton can be a pro-choice mom: Anti-choicers blast the “abortion supporter” for being happy about her pregnancy
But in the anti-choice mindset, being pro-choice and wanting a child cannot coexist, even though, according to The Guttmacher Ins ute, “Six in 10 American women having an abortion already have a child, and more than three in 10 already have two or more children.”
One antiabortion advocate even asked NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue “Is that real?” when Hogue attended a hearing on Capitol Hill, visibly pregnant (with twins). Hogue told The Washington Post, “[M]y personal experience and my gra ude and relief in choosing to become a mother and being supported in that just makes me feel so much more strongly that other people should have the same support.”
Anti-choice activists expect women to know in advance exactly how they will deal with a pregnancy, based on their politics, and can’t grasp that a wanted, welcomed pregnancy will likely feel completely different for a woman like Chelsea Clinton than an unwanted one. Reactions on Twitter implied that Clinton and her parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton, shouldn’t be excited about this pregnancy because they are also in favor of abortion rights.
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/23/yes_...her_pregnancy/
and Fox thinks the timing of the birth fits in with her mother's campaign.
David Daleiden, the mastermind behind the debunked and now possibly criminal Planned Parenthood videos, got slapped with a federal lawsuit by Planned Parenthood this Thursday in San Francisco.
RICO, mail fraud, iden y theft, sham corporations, lying on incorporation papers filed with CA SOS, using fake names, fake CA driver's licenses, credit card fraud, lying on contracts, and doing so in multiple US jurisdictions and so on.The lawsuit includes compensatory and punitive damages for what Planned Parenthood has suffered since the video release, as well as attorney fees. Beth Parker, a Planned Parenthood lawyer, did not comment on how much money would be sought but indicated that the amount would include extra money spent since the release of the videos for increased clinic security.
Daleiden and his organization, the Center For Medical Progress, are responsible for publishing completely fake videos that suggest Planned Parenthood illegally sells fetal body parts for cash. The videos provided a mountain of fodder for Republican outrage in 2015, resulting in wasted hearings, time, and money. There have also been some accusations that the videos causing increased violence at Planned Parenthood clinics, and a mass shooting.
The lawsuit accused the Center For Medical Progress and a fake company called “Biomax” of violating the RICO Act, committing fraud, invasion of privacy, illegal recording and trespassing. David Daleiden, Troy Newman, and a group of other individuals used forged government ID’s to gain entry to private conferences where they secretly recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood employees. Afterward, the group took the recorded conversations, cut and combined them together out of context with fake footage to make the now infamous videos.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01...deral-lawsuit/
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Arkansas Case Challenging ‘Roe’
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesdayturned away a request by anti-choice lawmakers to review an Arkansas law that bans abortion at 12 weeks of pregnancy with narrow exceptions, letting stand an appellate court ruling striking the measure as uncons utional.
Arkansas’ SB 134, known as the “Arkansas Heartbeat Protection Act,” outlaws abortion when a fetal heartbeat has been detected—which can be as early as six weeks’ gestation—and at 12 weeks, with narrow exceptions for the life of the pregnant person, cases of rape or incest, and those that involve a “lethal fetal disorder.”
The law, considered to be among the most radically restrictive in the nation, has been blocked by a federal judge since March 2014. Attorneys for the state urged the Roberts Court to take the case anyway, arguing the time was right for the Court to review the “rigid” viability framework put in place by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey that prevents states from banning abortions prior to fetal viability.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29
Repugalism in action
Here's what happened to women after a new law closed half of Texas's abortion clinics
we have some research about what happened to abortion access after that:
women forced to delay their abortion procedures due to longer waits for appointments at overburdened clinics,
fewer women getting clinical abortions overall, and at least
some women taking matters into their own hands by self-inducing at home.
The study found women had to wait and have a later abortion, or couldn't get an abortion at all
Abortion providers tell harrowing stories of what happened after HB2 passed
"The first week after the law changed, we started seeing an increase in patients who had tried something to end their pregnancy before coming to the clinic," said Tenesha Duncan, administrator of the Southwestern Women's Surgery Center in Dallas.
"That week, a doctor found parsley in a patient’s vagina. I’ve also talked to patients who were distraught and suicidal because they couldn’t access the abortion care they needed."
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/21/1080870...-clinics-study
Just another BIG ING THANKS, TX Bible-humping racist Repugs.
Supreme Court Won’t Revive Radical Six-Week Abortion Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to revive a North Dakota law that would ban abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, letting stand a federal appeals court decision striking it as uncons utional.
At issue is HB 1456, signed into law by Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple in March 2013. The measure bans abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks post-fertilization.
The law contains a very narrow exception for when the life or health of the patient is in danger, and subjects any provider who violates it to felony criminal charges.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29
Grand Jury Indicts Abortion Foes Behind Undercover Videos
A Harris County grand jury on Monday indicted the videographers behind undercover recordings of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston and cleared the clinic of any wrongdoing.
The indictments — part of the county prosecutor's’ investigation into allegations that Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal tissue — include charges against anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt for tampering with a governmental record. The grand jury handed down a second charge for Daleiden for “Prohibition of the Purchase and Sale of Human Organs.”
The grand jury cleared Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston of any wrongdoing.
State Republican leaders last year pushed for investigations into Planned Parenthood after videos were released depicting Planned Parenthood officials across the nation discussing how their providers obtain fetal tissue for medical research.
Among the undercover videos were recordings of staff at Houston-based Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, where two abortion foes in April misrepresented themselves as research executives and provided fake California drivers’ licenses.
http://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/...eid=d070f58998
Man, I'd sure be embarrassed by now if I had posted this thread.
Planned Parenthood Sues CMP Over Undercover Videos
Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against the Center for Medical Progress Thursday over its release of undercover videos that exposed the non-profit’s dealings in fetal tissue parts.
The series of videos “did their intended damage,” reads the formal complaint, which alleges CMP and it’s project lead David Daleiden violated federal law and laws in three states, including secret taping and trespassing in the course of its years-long investigation.
“Millions of people who viewed the manipulated videos and inflammatory accusations were made to believe that Planned Parenthood had violated the law and acted improperly,” adds the complaint.
CMP obtained the footage of Planned Parenthood executives and top doctors during a 3-year-investigation, and alleges Planned Parenthood is illegally profiting from the sale of harvested fetuses. Planned Parenthood denies the allegations and quickly accused CMP of doctoring the videos.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/14/pl...rcover-videos/
Abbott, totally slapped, says The Great Repug State of Christian Texas will continue its investigation of PP.
Clipper Nation, along with many on the right, have little shame when it comes to lying for political points. IMO.
For them, reality appears to have a liberal bias.
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