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Judge Says Texas Can Cut Off Funding for Planned Parenthood

Dec. 31, 2012 7:42pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood’s family planning programs for poor women, a state judge ruled Monday, requiring thousands to find new state-approved doctors for their annual exams, cancer screenings and birth control.

Judge Gary Harger said that Texas may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding if they advocate for abortion rights.

Texas has long banned the use of state funds for abortion, but had continued to reimburse Planned Parenthood clinics for providing basic health care to poor women through the state’s Women’s Health Program. The program provides preventive care to 110,000 poor women a year, and Planned Parenthood clinics were treating 48,000 of them.

Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit to stop the rule will still go forward, but the judge decided Monday that the ban may go into effect for now. In seeking a temporary restraining order, Planned Parenthood wanted its patients to be able to see their current doctors until a final decision was made.

“We are pleased the court rejected Planned Parenthood’s latest attempt to skirt state law,” attorney general spokeswoman Lauren Bean said. “The Texas Attorney General’s office will continue to defend the Texas Legislature’s decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women’s Health Program.”

Ken Lambrecht, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, said he brought the lawsuit on behalf of poor women who depend on its clinics.

“It is shocking that once again Texas officials are letting politics jeopardize health care access for women,” Lambrecht said. “Our doors remain open today and always to Texas women in need. We only wish Texas politicians shared this commitment to Texas women, their health, and their well-being.”

Planned Parenthood has brought three lawsuits over Texas’ so-called “affiliate rule,” claiming it violates the constitutional rights of doctors and patients while also contradicting existing state law.

Republican lawmakers who passed the affiliate rule last year have argued that Texas is an anti-abortion state, and therefore should cut off funds to groups that support abortion rights. Gov. Rick Perry, who vehemently opposes abortion, has pledged to do everything legally possible to shut down Planned Parenthood in Texas and welcomed the court’s ruling.

“Today’s ruling finally clears the way for thousands of low-income Texas women to access much-needed care, while at the same time respecting the values and laws of our state,” Perry said. “I applaud all those who stand ready to help these women live healthy lives without sending taxpayer money to abortion providers and their affiliates.”

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has spent the last nine months preparing to implement the affiliate rule. But federal officials warned it violated the Social Security Act and cut off federal funds for the Women’s Health Program, prompting the commission to start a new program using only state money.

State officials have also scrambled to sign up new doctors and clinics to replace Planned Parenthood. Women who previously went to Planned Parenthood clinics will now have to use the agency’s web site to find a new state-approved doctor. HHSC officials acknowledged Monday they are unsure whether the new doctors can pick up Planned Parenthood’s caseload in all parts of the state.

Any capacity issues will become clear in the next few weeks as women try to make appointments with new clinics and doctors, with problems anticipated in South Texas and other impoverished areas. Texas already suffers from a shortage of primary care physicians willing to take on new patients who rely on state-funded health care.

Linda Edwards Gockel, a spokesman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said Monday that the new state program will launch as planned on Tuesday.

“We have more than 3,500 doctors, clinics and other providers in the program and will be able to continue to provide women with family planning services while fully complying with state law,” she said. “We welcome Planned Parenthood’s help in referring patients to providers in the new program.”

Democratic lawmakers continued to question whether women will have to wait longer for appointments and services.

“I vehemently disagree with the state’s efforts to blacklist a qualified provider and, thereby, interfere with a woman’s right to choose her own provider,” said state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin. “I will be submitting a letter to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, requesting a list of approved providers to gauge the outreach of the new program, and ensure that all qualified women throughout the state have access to its services.”

Another hearing is scheduled with a different judge for Jan. 11, where Planned Parenthood will again ask for an injunction to receive state funding.

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:47am
Parent and hood don’t belong in the same name anyway..

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:34am
  Neither do Texas and human, which casts suspicion on any actions of The Texas Health and Human Services Commission. And that’s not how you spell Gandhi.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:45am
  @Chet
  
  Texans like Texas. Liberals don’t like Texas. Liberals don’t like Texans. You getting the picture now?
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:45pm
  It should be called Planned Murderhood.
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:47pm
  Chet why don’t you take your libaturd @ss back to Californicate and get the hell out of Texas?
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:26pm
  JIM IN HOUSTURD . .. Texas is the only state that makes Mississippi look smart.
  
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- Truthbomb
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:29am
  Planned murder hood. Nice. LOL. I’ll be using that joke a lot now. Thanks Jim
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:52am
  I see several loser leftists are posting here today, they must be a bit butthurt. It’s always a bright, shiny day when leftists foam at the mouth.
  
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Guy_From_Michigan
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:37pm
The Liberal’s all complain that the Republicans want to hurt Poor People by stopping funding for Planned Parent Hood (Abortion Inc).
The Liberals all want to help the poor with someone else s money! Look at what Republicans donate to charity and compare it to what Conservatives donate.

Government money is not the answer to every problem, its normally the cause of the problem.

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- charles116
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 1:02am
  Your post makes no sense whatsoever.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:41am
  @Charles
  
  You don’t make any sense at all.
  
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- HOLYSMOKES
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:20am
  @Charles Yes it does. I understood it perfectly
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:48pm
  I think you meant compare it to what liberals donate.
  
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REVerse
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:30pm
Holder has been kinda quiet lately. This may bring him out…

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DesertRose1960
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:13pm
@Armyofone, No, Planned Parenthood was not created to rid the world of African Americans. That rumor can be traced to a single article written about ten years ago. Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood after watching so many women die as the result of childbirth or being worn out by endless pregnancies and huge numbers of children. She wanted to teach all women about their bodies so they could have fewer, healthier babies. She went through Black doctors and ministers in Black communities so they women could feel safe and secure in reaching out for this care.

Many county health clinics offer vasectomies at reduced costs. If you went into Planned Parenthood with your wife or girlfriend and asked for a referal, you would probably receive one. If you go in and spout conspiracy theories, you will escourted out by security, they have to protect their patients.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:44am
  @Rose
  
  Don’t move to Texas and you can stay happy in your “commie” state, whichever one it is.
  
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- American Drywaller
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:53am
  “[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds … a
  deadweight of human waste … [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to
  the race.”
  “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent
  Multiplication of this bad stock.”
  – Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review .
  
  “[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden
  of unwanted children … [Women must have the right] to live … to love
  … to be lazy … to be an unmarried mother … to create … to destroy
  … The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order
  … The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members
  is to kill it.”
  – Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel , Volume I, Number 1.
  Reprinted in Woman and the New Race . New York: Brentanos Publishers,
  1922.
  “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
  social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
  successful educational approach to the ***** is through a religious appeal.
  We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the *****
  population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if
  it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
  – Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
  Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith
  Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts.
  
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- American Drywaller
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:04am
  Sanger was a Eugenist. So was Hitler.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 6:08pm
  ROSE…
  
  DRYWALLER, as we say in the south, just “took you to the woodshed”…PLEASE respond to that…please?
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:27pm
  AMERICAN SHEETSLITTER . . . So was Reagan.
  
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- American Drywaller
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:09am
  Glenda,
  Give me one Eugenics quote from Reagan. I on the other hand can give you many more from Sanger, plus a whole lot of other sick things she said, all in real publications and in her own words. All you seem capable of is trying, badly I might add, to call me names and say “… so was Reagan”.
  
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barber2
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:09pm
Texas will soon be receiving the same Obama radical treatment that Arizona received. Big Brother does not like to be ” disrespected.” Big Brother has a very thin skin and a very thick agenda.

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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:44am
  Gov Perry isn’t afraid and neither is rest of Texas. Remember The Alamo?
  
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dave88
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:57pm
Gosh, a judge that can think.

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Kara_ite
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:18pm
Desertrose1960 is bloomin’ mad.

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Kara_ite
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:14pm
A T @ DESERTROSE1960
This ruling has gotten you sort of “thorny”.

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Advection
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:07pm
I predict Herod will go berserk when he finds out they aren’t meeting their dead baby quotas in Texas.

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DesertRose1960
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:05pm
@Army of One, No, it was not created to get rid of Black people. That is a lie created by the Right just a few years ago. It can be traced to an article written by an angry Black man. He took Margaret Sanger’s words out of context and twisted them and then you folks bought right into it and started spreading the lie around. Let me guess, you told the Planned Parenthood folks this little theory and then asked about a vasectomy and they had you escourted from the building. Did it ever occur to you that your actions were nutty and threatening and they were afraid to have you in the building? If a poor man was to go into a Planned Parenthood clinic with his wife, you might find he would get a referal. Some county health clinics have low-cost vasectomies available; vasectomies are hardly controversial even though they involve sterilization. No one pickets outside the urologists’ offices where they are performed.

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Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:33pm
Texans and Republicans are so evil that they want poor women to die of cancer leaving behind orphaned children that they never wanted in the first place.

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- lassiegirldawn
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:55pm
  They will still be in the birth control business, just not the baby killing business. Reread the article.
  
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- BHOHG2G
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:08pm
  That’s why we now have Obamacare. Everything is now FREE!!!!!!
  
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- Kara_ite
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:08pm
  Texans and Republicans and Libertarians are very tired of funding murder!
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:06am
  lassiegirldawn
  I read the whole article. It said there were problems “problems anticipated in South Texas and other impoverished areas. Texas already suffers from a shortage of primary care physicians willing to take on new patients who rely on state-funded health care.” So, I see no reason to deny anybody access to a qualified health care provider just because they also provide other services that the state won’t pay for.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:17am
  Kara_ite
  No tax dollars are used to directly pay for abortions. I wish that we were paying for them. It would save a lot of money in the long run. Anybody who can’t afford an abortion sure as hell can’t afford a baby. If we are going to cut off payments to Planned Parenthood just because they also do abortions,we should also cut off funding to all institutions connected with religious groups that actively discourage women form getting abortions.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:49am
  @Chet
  
  Yes the $$ is directly funding abortion. Yes it is!
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:52pm
  No, jackass we want liberal America hating, baby killers to die. Are you ready?
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:54am
  I see you tried to type something, but the only thing that came across is the sound of a screaming infant. Can you try again?
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:09pm
Without Planned Parenthood, who will be responsible for telling the sexually active about the gestation cycle and how it is impossible to get pregnant if you can count to 31 and subtract 5?
Because PP was soooooooo good at that little detail.

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:18am
  That’s not how you spell Gandhi.
  
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- Shellback
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 5:59am
  Chet,
  Stupid is as stupid does. You win. Now trade in your computer since you don’t know how to use it.
  
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dealer@678
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:07pm
God is alive and well here in Texas. I quit traveling outside my border years ago because the people everywhere else disgust me

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chips1
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:52pm
Put me on the list for a baby. The ones that are saved will need a good home. Plenty of room and Love. I wouldn’t care to leave without using all of it.

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MiCurmudgeon
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:49pm
Remember, Obama choses what laws he wants to enforce. If everyone who felt this law was unconstuitional refused to obey it, there aren’t enough places to jail us all.

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riseandshine
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:40pm
Choose life.

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normbal
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:06pm
Of course TX can, so can every state. Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar a year FOR-PROFIT industry. It’s a PRIVATE industry. What in the hell is government at ANY level doing subsidizing it?

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:12pm
  Same with Big Bird…
  
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mbean
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:03pm
Obamacare negates the need for planned parenthood prividing medical services for poor people outside of birth control. Obamacare does everythingt for everybody for free, according to MSNBC/WH.

Why does planned parenthood provide any services outside of birth control anyway?

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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:45pm
  Because breast and cervical cancers are part of a woman’s reproductive system. Planned Parenthood was created to educate women about their bodies and the illnesses related to their reproductive organs and to plan their pregnancies and to get proper medical care during them.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:57pm
  @Desertrose1960: Well then these women can pay just like I did. No one paid to help me “plan” my pregnancy.
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:09pm
  Really, no one helped you. You paid full price for all of your doctor visits, hospital bills, medications, and procedures WITHOUT a single penny of health insurance of any kind? You paid full price for all the conceptive devices or drugs you used between any pregnancy. If you got health insurance for free from you employer, you still got other people’s money helping you through each and every pregnancy. If you had part of your insurance paid for by your employer then you were still getting other people’s money to help you plan your pregnancies, that is how insurance works. And if you didn’t need to have any insurance and could afford to pay the tens of thousands of dollars it can cost to have a baby, who are you to look down on a poor woman who can’t afford it or someone who has to rely on insurance to help pay the bills?
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:26pm
  Some people pay for their health ins. hard for you to believe huh. Her health ins. that she payed for payed for prenatal care and deliver. Has nothing to do with abortions or controceptives. Go back under that rock you came from you will convince no one here to a liberal…
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:30pm
  We could use a secular health service or non profit. Planned Parenthood is not secular; it is religious. It is religiously liberal.
  
  Most of the population growth is coming from Hispanics, they are Catholics. So if we wanted to be multicultural, if we wanted to be sensitive, Catholic charities would get some of the government money to act as an NGO to provide services.
  
  I know I am happy with the Catholic Church & I am not even Catholic. And yes I do use service they provide. It is market priced or nearly so & I sleep much better at night.
  
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- Armyof One
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:33pm
  Desertrose, Planned Parenthood was created to kill black people.
  
  I asked our local PP if they helped cover vasectomies. I was escorted from the premises.
  
  So: Racist AND sexist.
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:42pm
  @Civilwarcometh, Let me explain this to you. When you buy insurance, you are paying into a plan that pools the money of all of the insured. You pay lower rates for some services or you pay a small amount for a good or service and the insurance plan picks up the rest. Doctors and hospitals often have deals with insurance companies for agreed payments. For instance, when my twins were born, the cost for the doctor was $1500, the cost for delivering the second baby was $125 for the uninsured by the insurance company only paid $40 for the birth of the second twin. There was an $85 difference that the doctor was not paid. If you have insurance whether you bought it or not, you are not paying for the full cost of your pregnancy, the insurance pool is paying for it. The only way someone didn’t help you pay for your pregnancy is if you are uninsured and you paid full price for every good or service you received. Apparently, your understanding of insurance is as weak as your writing ability.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:04pm
  @Desertrose1960: Yes it takes two, but the woman is the one who bares the consequences of the outcome. If she doesn’t use her God given sense to know what’s right and what is wrong then I sure don’t want to be the one paying for her lack of poor judgement. If more women were made to pay for their poor judgement then maybe more women would pay attention to their actions. I am a woman so don’t accuse me of being a man who doesn’t see a woman’s point of view. Men are selfish but so are women. They think of themselves at “the moment” and then want help when they get themselves in trouble. I am personally tired of having my tax dollars paid to help woman who have no self control. I don’t care what a man says or does, the woman can always say NO! As far as planned parenthood…..No need for them! Let the woman work and pay their fees for medical insurance. I have no more room in my paycheck to support anyone else!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:43pm
  If a doctor is paid by an insurance company then they are paid in full. Many companies & individuals have differential pricing for different customers. Sometimes this is made illegal by law & sometimes it is not. If a doctors wants to make a deal with a insurance company to get a group of clients, he can sacrifice margin for volume like any other business. If a doctor is pressured by a company to accepts lower compensation, then he can decide not to contract with them & it can be a losing proposition for him or a lose-lose situation.
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:47pm
  @Th77 You’re rigtht, women are just as selfish as men. Planned Parenthood exists to help women make better choices for themselves. Do you realize that Margaret Sanger was prosecuted for pornography for putting out information about the menstrual cycle and how to avoid pregnancy? Do you realize how many women depend on Planned Parenthood for pregnancy tests, prenatal referals, and cancer screenings? What do you tell the woman who can’t get medical insurance or she can’t afford the plans that are offered to her? My daughters have pre-existing conditions and currently have no health insurance because we can’t afford the extra $800 a month to get COBRA. For every woman who has an abortion there is a story. Sometimes, an abortion is the best alternative, I can’t tell you why a woman would choose an abortion, I just know that making them illegal doesn’t stop them from happening. I’ve never had an abortion, I’ve known a few women who had them. They could live with their decision, it isn’t for me to judge them.
  
  Oh, and thanks for the correction, I have never been a strong speller, but that was a typo.
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:57pm
  @Walkabout, You’re funny. Planned Parenthood is not a religious group, it is secular. Liberalism is a political and economic ideology, not a religion. You spent a lot of time talking about insurance pools. It supports my contention that if you didn’t pay full price for all of your medical services out of your own pocket, you got help from others because you were part of a risk pool. I have no problem with insurance and risk pools. I would like to see single payer provider or national health insurance. Other countries have these very civilized plans and they pay less and live longer than we do.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:00pm
  Armyof One
  
  You can only do a vasectomy once. You can roto-rooter out a woman many times. There is more PROFIT there.
  
  I would have never thought of vasectomies. That was a great post.
  
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- idrathermisstotheright
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 2:54am
  In college history of Chicago 17 year old pregnant with 3 kids, mom living up stairs with 13 kids and pregnant, and grandma on the 5th floor with 17 kids. They sure have done a great job of educating. Face it they are in it for the money. I wonder how much the head guy who filed the lawsuit makes.
  
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Chromo200
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:57pm
Great now we hope the higher courts uphold this ruling. If people want to support Planned Parenthood, they they can contribute their money and not mine.

Anyway I thought Obamacare was going to take of all of our health care for very little money at any hospital, clinic, and Doctor’s office.

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civilwarcometh
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:57pm
over 50 million baby’s have been murdered in the last 40 years. So how many murder’s are walking our streets never to be held responsible for their action’s? I don’t believe in God or the devil wish i could but if their is i hope they all end up down their. GO TEXAS!!!

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- TH777
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:24pm
  @Civilwarcometh: Please believe there is a God and there is a devil. Read the Bible! Everything that is happening in this world has been predicted in the Bible. The way this world is heading is also predicted in the Bible. All of what is happening in the world today is of no surprise to the people who know God’s word. It still doesn’t make it any less upsetting to see it all unfolding before our eye but we do have the promises of God. Please read it and study it! Trust in God but know there is a devil. Please, please pick up the Bible and read it like your life depended on it, because it does. God Bless!!
  
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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:45pm
  Hi Civil
  
  Try reading Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. You might find it interesting. Not trying to sell you on changing your mind but I found this eye opening because CS Lewis started out writting it to prove to his Christian freinds why they were wrong in believing. The link below is a pdf (save you the money and time)
  
  Happy New Year!!
  
  http://usminc.org/images/MereChristianitybyCSLewis.pdf
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 8:53pm
  And what about the men who made those babies? The men who refused to wear condoms or cheated on their wives or dumped the girl after she said yes? What about them? What about the men who beat the girlfriend so that when she got pregnant, she figured she was better off terminating a pregnancy than staying with an abusive partner? Do you think they belong in Hell? Do you blame them at all? For every aborted pregnancy a man was involved, and in most cases, it was his reactions to the pregnancy that led to the abortion in the first place. I happen to believe there is a God, but my God is a forgiving one, and I will leave judgement to Him, the women and the men.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:19pm
  Thanks but i have read the bible. Only thing i have against it is man wrote it. I just don’t have that faith but i hold nothing against those that do. As for men being responseable BS we have NO say in it your arguement is flaud. It takes 2 if she don’t have protection and niether does he keep your legs closed. But once she is pregnant men have no say when it comes to an abortion. See ya lib….
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:31pm
  @Civilwarcometh, Right, I’m an idiot and you are a man who can’t spell or express himself in a complete sentence! You take no responsibility for your own seman, it takes two to “do it” but after you’ve had your fun, you wash your di…hands and are done with it, it’s not your concern anymore. I’ll bet you wash like you write. Eww.
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:54pm
  Yep i don’t write very well started working when i was 13 and quit school at 16 to work full time to help support the family never liked school anyhow. The only people that complain about my writeing are elitest who want to make themselves feel smart or look smart. Both my great grandfathers singed up for the revolutionary war with an X and look how smart they were. Just because you can memerize pages from a book some libT AR D wrote i could care less. All my children were born when i was married. No one has ever aborted one of my children. SEE YA LIB….
  
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- TH777
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:17pm
  @Desertrose1960: You spelled “seman” wrong. It’s “semen”. Sorry, I just couldn’t resist correcting you.
  
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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:20pm
  @Civilwarcometh, Well, guess what, my father left school to fight in WWII. He enlisted on his 17th birthday in 1942 and he helped pay for my education by driving an 18 wheeler, my mother scrubbed motel bathrooms, and I clerked in a store. I became a teacher and then a civil servant. You can come from very poor backgrounds and still learn how to read and write. I never memorized books, I learned to research and read multiple sources and to think for myself and to write about what I learned . I’ve had one marriage, one sexual partner, and one pregnancy. I”ve never had an abortion or a divorce. My daughters have never had an abortion. What’s your point? Did you support those children? Did you pay for their educations?
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 10:37pm
  Umm sorry that would be my 5th great grandfathers..
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 11:08pm
  DesertRose1960
  
  Ditch the bad guy, give the baby up for adoption & choose a better guy next time.
  
  Simple formula, cross your legs, play hard to get, make him work for it marriage, job & references. How hard can references be in the age of Facebook?
  
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N37BU6
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:53pm
The Democrats and their War on Babies… sick.

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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:11pm
  The Republicans and their War on Women and their Infatuation with the Fetus but LOATHING for poor children….sick.
- civilwarcometh
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:21pm
  The only war on women is being waged by you left idiots you can’t sell that crapp here we ALL no better… Nice try but you fail bye troll….
  
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- TH777
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:35pm
  @Desertrose1960: Where do they come off calling it “Planned Parenthood” and then kill off thousands of thousands of innocent babies?? Something is wrong with their system!
  
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- N37BU6
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:57am
  Not a baby? Sure… I agree, it’s not a baby. Just like it’s not a teenager or senior or middle-aged person. But it is a human.
  
  I’ll start calling it the war on humans if it makes you happy, fetus killer.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 3:53am
  N37BU6
  It’s not a human. It doesn’t have a human mind, which is the only thing that makes a human superior to any other form of life. It will start to form a human mind when it is born and begins to perceive the world by means of its senses. Until then, killing it is no more immoral than catching a fish or swatting a mosquito.
  
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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 4:14pm
  Chet you were late when they passed out minds and you failed to get one you dumb @ss!
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:29pm
  JIM IN HOUSTURD . . . duh huh duh huh duh huh . . . good one. Guess the same thing happened to you when they were passing out senses of humor, eh?
  
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IndyGuy
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:52pm
Shouldn’t it be called Planned NON-PARENTHOOD???

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chrinortay
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:52pm
How funny! Progressives want choice! What about my choice of not spending my tax money on the murder of babies? As much as I hate abortion, I am okay with your body your choice. Just make YOUR choice with YOUR own money.

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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:02pm
  Federal funds CAN NOT be spent on abortion, that’s because of the Hyde Amendment that has been around since 1976. Abortions are 3% of the services provided by Planned Parenthood. They spend most of their time and energy educating women about their bodies and providing contraception and tests and screenings for cancers of the reproductive system. They also provide prenatal treatment and nutritian for poor, pregnant women. If you do away with access to contraception and prenatal counceling, you INCREASE the likelihood of abortion. You also increase the likelihood of sickly or malnourished babies. Malnutritian has been linked to lower IQs and greater dependence on public funds or charity as adults.
  
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- chrinortay
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:42am
  @DESERTROSE1960, I appreciate the calmness of your reply. However, you are misinformed. Planned Parenthood performs 40% of all abortions in the US per http://www.lifenews.com/2012/09/05/media-hides-fact-planned-parenthood-does-40-of-abortions/ . And, for arguments sake, say Planned Parenthood did only perform the relatively few number of abortions that you claim, I still do not want my money associated with abortion or the education that abortion is an option. If they were as concerned about cancer screenings and nutrition as you and they claim then they would be more than happy to drop what is claimed to be just 3% of their business in order to get federal funding to “take care of women.” The ugly truth is that their business is the wholesale murder of babies. A bit of advice for you. Don’t take up a cause because it is for your sex. Don’t take up a cause because it sounds good. Take up a cause because you have studied it, researched it, and fully believe 100% like they do. If you are truly concerned about women’s health, be concerned for the unborn women who are pulled from their source of nourishment without a choice.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:52pm
All states should cut off funds to baby murdering Planned Parenthood, until they stop performing abortions.

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- DesertRose1960
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 9:19pm
  Abortions are 3% of the services provided through Planned Parenthood. As Lila Rose can tell you, they don’t always provide these services in their clinics, they send women and girls to private providers who do the service, be it a mamogram or a pap smear or an abortion. You are willing to deny women cancer screenings and nutrition because they also refer women for abortions? Would you refuse to go to an OB-GYN who provided abortions to some of his/her patients? Would you even know? Abortion is a legal procedure, many private physicians perform them for their patients.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 12:18am
  @Desertrose1960: Fine…you want an abortion, you PAY for it!
  
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GoodCook
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:45pm
Democratic lawmakers continued to question whether women will have to wait longer for appointments and services.

Really did they read how Obamacare will do that for the rest of us…..

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 7:52pm
  No- nobody read the bill.
  
  Let them wait just like the rest of us.
  
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