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Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood Restarts in Indiana Following Federal Judge’s Ruling

Taxpayer Funding of Planned Parenthood Restarts in Indiana Following Federal Judges RulingINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana started seeing Medicaid patients again Saturday, the day after a federal judge ruled the state couldn‘t cut off the organization’s public funding for general health services just because it also provides abortions.

Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Kate Shepherd said she didn‘t know how many Medicaid patients had visited the group’s 28 clinics since Friday night’s federal court ruling, but the clinics usually average about 80 a day.

“Saturday is one of the busier days because people don’t have to take off work, and they can get family members to watch their children,” Shepherd said.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana has been without Medicaid funding since May 10, when Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the law that cut off about $1.4 million and made Indiana the first state to deny the organization Medicaid funds for services such as breast exams and Pap tests.

Planned Parenthood, which serves about 9,300 Indiana clients on the state-federal health insurance plan for low-income and disabled people, was forced to stop seeing Medicaid patients this week after private donations that had paid those patients’ bills ran out.

(See: Judge stops Ind. cuts to Planned Parenthood funds)

Shepherd said the group was trying to get the word out to Medicaid patients that they could start coming back Saturday. She said she believed some clinics with close relationships with their Medicaid patients were phoning to tell them they could return.

“They’re so very happy to be able to say to their patients, `We’d love to see you again,’” she said.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt‘s Friday ruling blocked parts of a tough new abortion law and granted Planned Parenthood of Indiana’s request for an injunction on the state’s move to defund the organization. The decision sides with federal officials who said states cannot restrict Medicaid recipients’ freedom to choose their health care provider or disqualify Medicaid providers merely because they also offer abortions.

Indiana attorney general’s office spokesman Bryan Corbin said the state likely will appeal.

State Sen. Scott Schneider, an Indianapolis Republican who sponsored the measure to defund Planned Parenthood, said the state should appeal.

(See: Federal judge blocks Indiana’s new immigration law)

“The whole ruling is disappointing in my opinion. In my opinion, it’s judicial activism,” he said.

Pratt’s ruling was part of a double setback for Indiana conservatives by federal judges Friday. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker granted a request for an injunction blocking two provisions of the state’s new immigration law, saying the law was the latest failed effort of states to deal with a primarily federal issue.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana and the National Immigration Law Center sued the state in May, contending the law gives police sweeping powers to arrest immigrants who haven’t committed crimes.

State Sen. Mike Delph, a Republican from Carmel who authored the immigration law, said the judges in both cases overreached.

“Collectively, what this shows is a judicial branch of government that is out of touch with the people of Indiana. It shows a liberalism that is not in sync with the wishes of the people of Indiana,” he said Saturday.

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  • Tretka
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:51pm

    Okay. Let me lay this one down. And if someone sees the dichotomy of what I write below and has an answer…please explain it to me.

    If a woman stands in a picket line to “Save the Chickens!” in the morning at KFC (actually saw this one) and for the afternoon she stands holding a sign in front of a business known for being Pro-Life saying “ A Woman has a Right to Choose”. Does that mean that mean she values life? or just chickens?

    And I wonder regarding the “Save the Chickens” part of it, if she is objecting to killing the chickens or how they are treated prior to their death. I wonder then, if she would have the same issue with a fetus prior to it’s death due to abortion? And then, what would she decide?

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:54am

      I got another one for you:

      If a young woman stands in front of an abortion clinic several days a week, holding up a sign reading “Abortion is murder” or similar, and then comes in one day having an abortion, what would you say to that? What if that young woman is back in the picket line a few days after that?

      Or same as above, just that the person is a mother herself and brings in her daughter for an abortion?

      “The only moral abortion is my abortion”

      http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

      Interesting how people can stalwartly fight against something until they require it themselves. After all, THEY have a good reason. All those other women are just sluts who don’t.

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    • The Gooch
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Yep. The “do as I say, not as I do” game is played by busybodies on a regular basis. Here’s my stance on this morality two-step: I don‘t give a damn if you can’t keep your convictions straight as long as I don’t have to pay for your choices. This is why you never send money to televangilists, climate change gurus or politicians: They tend to engage in the very behavior they’re railing against.
      I work in the mental health field and see numerous fat bodies and posers giving guidance on substance abuse issues (I worked in an agency that employed a substance abuse counselor who moonlighted as a pole dancer and bartender… and she also loved the ganja… she was a smoking hot hypocrite and agency joke… but admin. loved her!), healthy eating and exercise habits (fat people railing against tobacco as part of a govt. paid job will always make me laugh) and relationship advice (from 40+ year old androgynous virgins). Hell, in my own family, my “devoutly Christian mother-in-law rails against strong drink and gossip… and then buys booze for my worthless brother-in-law and verbally rips apart her neighbors and fellow congregation members.
      Cognitive dissonance is an ugly little facet that makes the human condition all the more interesting. Support your sacred cows as you see fit. I don’t care… I’ll champion mine as I see fit. Hypocricy exists on both ends of the ideological spectrum. Pay for your own choices.
      Can‘t help thinking of Swift’s “A Modest Propos

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  • LoisLane1951
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:42pm

    The judge will be judged.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:54am

      Maybe in your little fantasy world. The judge made the ruling based on the constitution. Period!

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:40pm

    I know, lets send all the gays to New York to get married, but they have to stay and lets send baby killers to Indiana to kill babies. But the mothers have to stay there to. Satan is running rampant and your lawmakers are guilty of murder and immorality! God forgive you!!

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  • TH30PH1LUS
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:38pm

    Killing Babies is the sacrament of the Liberal religion.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:25pm

    The Female Federal Judge who over ruled this Indiana Law can be over ruled. No American citizen should be forced to pay for someone else’s abortion. I hope the Governor can take this to a higher Court. The Judicial branch of our Government has become too powerful. Many of them are bought & paid for & many have sold their souls to the devil.

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  • missy8s
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:20pm

    Oh my what a “horrible inconvenience” that these “mothers” might have to wait until Monday and take time off from work to schedule a better time to murder their babies…

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:00am

      Pst.

      Hey.

      Hey you.

      Yeah, you.

      PP provides other services than abortions. Actually, the majority of services PP provides are not abortion-related. They provide health checks, mammograms, contraceptives, pap smears and many other things to poor women who work two or three jobs and cannot afford to skip work, lest they lose their jobs and their children starve.

      Pass it on!

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  • Oldphoto678
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:14pm

    Get a clue people. You’re right, the courts don’t give a tinkers damn about the will of the people. AND THEY SHOULDN’T….EVER!!! The will of the people has no place in the courts unless it comes from the jury box. If you haven’t figured this out yet let me explain. The constitution was designed so that the will of the people, even if it be the will of the majority, can not infringe on the rights of the minority. That was the will of the founders.

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    • missy8s
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:24pm

      That’s good, so you oppose the concept mob rule “democracy” vs. a republic…

      You’re half right and completely wrong, the founders detested judicial activism, the judge in this case did in fact engage in it.

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:20am

      Meh, in this case, the courts actually follow the will of the people. The majority supports public funding of Planned Parenthood. People against it can complain all they want, but they’re still a minority.

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:55am

      @missy8s
      Just because you don’t like the ruling you cry judicial activizim, but you have zero proof that the judge’s ruling had anything to do with judicial activizim.

      @Erabin
      The will of the people was not a consideration in the judge’s ruling. The only thing the judge considered was the constitutionality of the law.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:40pm

    The federal judge is a murderer! A killer of the unborn! He will get his.

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  • miles from nowhere
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:29pm

    The judge is on the wrong side of this issue, he has no common sense and should not be a judge.

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  • USAMEDIC3008
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:15pm

    PROGRESSIVE baby KILLERS.

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  • Patriot Z
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:06pm

    im not opposed to abortion, just tax payer funded. They need to proove that NONE of that money ever goes to abortions. If it does they it should not be allowed

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    • sundaisy91
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:44pm

      that’s just the thing. they can‘t prove that their money doesn’t go to abortions, which is why this judge should not have made this ruling. if you ever look at their tax returns (which are available online at their website) you can’t tell WHERE their money goes. even the money going overseas says only “reproductive services” so who is to say it doesn’t go to abortions? the Hyde Amendment strictly prohibits medicaid funds from funding abortions, but when the funds are comingled, well who knows? the judge should demand written proof that NONE of medicaid monies are used for abortions, then give a ruling. If PP can’t prove beyond a doubt, then pull their funding. period.

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:04am

      There is that new thing called “accounting” which tracks the source and utilization of every single dollar. It’s actually pretty damn detailed to prevent fraud. Your tax dollars and regular donated dollars can be kept on different accounts.

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  • neverending
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:59pm

    If we can ever empty the sewage tank in Washington DC then it is time to empty the sewage tanks in some of this chambers. Is this really America anymore?

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  • NoStoppingUs
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:56pm

    The secular humanists demand the sacrament of child sacrifice.

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:56pm

    This is sickening! Really! This is utterly lamenting. A federal judge…ruling that Planned Parenthood is once again free…to receive taxpayer money…so the so-called “doctors” there can resume…carrying out abortions. I don‘t think we’ll see any change occuring unless ALL of those progressive tyrants are voted out.

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  • vtxphantom
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:56pm

    And now the genocide of children continue. obama as well as Planned Parenthood can try to wipe the blood off of their hand, but like the Nazi’s, their hands will always be stained.

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  • Catfish
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:44pm

    I wish this nation would get to where they would throw up at the mention of the word democrat they are sick sick sick sick

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  • Catfish
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:42pm

    I dont want one penny of my tax money to pay for one abortion, It looks to me like a woman should know how to protect herself or keep her drawers on, they are probably nostly blacks, but they are all muderers and will go to hell for what they arer doing 80 a day what has this nation came to, animals would make better people

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  • scr_north
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:36pm

    The judge was appointed by Obama and confirmed 95 to 0 by the senate. Frigging sheep.

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  • TheEmperorHasNoClothes
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:36pm

    I find it interesting that the people obtaining abortions choose to go on Saturdays so that family members “can watch their children”. Who is watching the child being killed?

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  • Concerned Green Beret
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:20pm

    Obviously judicial tyranny going on here. The question is did Indiana Appeal these stupid decisions?

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  • endgamer
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:20pm

    And the 10th amendment is spat upon again..

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:18pm

    Until we rid ourselves of liberals in power, all bets are off.

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:05pm

    Plan Parenthood needs to set up shop in Mexico!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:35pm

      Amen and Amen

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:11pm

      One day every doctor that has done an abortion and every woman that has had one will stand before God and try to explain to him why they murdered innocent babies

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  • rose-ellen
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:04pm

    Americanism -the religion that values human life,especially the innocent and defenseless.

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    • Now this is Art
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:27pm

      rose…you should have been aborted…your a pathetic excuse for a human. death to muslims. mohammed was a murderer, rapist, pedophile and hate monger…WHO THE HELL WORSHIPS SUCH AN ANIMAL????

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Watch for every demon in hell to attack this post tonight. It never fails

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:40pm

      If Obamas mama had aborted we would not be talking about this

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:55pm

      @Dealer….kill them while they’re innocent, eh?

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:59pm

      I know you were just sayin, dealer…no offense

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:18pm

      Now this is Art: Wow. I do not know much about Rose-Ellen, but I think your comment went overboard and was cruel. We Americans do value humane life, especially the defenseless & innocent. Or have I missed something?

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    • streetrodder
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:12am

      @Now this is art. You must be a Van Jones supporter.

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:17am

      @dontbotherme

      The problem is that many people (and mind you, I’m not addressing you specifically here because I do not know your opinion on the matter!) will only protect the life and happiness of the child until it is born, but after that it can go screw itself.

      Many, many people who are vehemently against abortions are also vehemently against social support for poor children who their parents cannot afford to feed. You can see how that could be construed as hypocritical? If you oppose abortions because you care about the well-being of a child, you should also make sure that that child receives all the help it needs after it is born to start a productive and happy life. Food on the table, a good education, a safe, nurturing environment. And in many cases, these things can only be provided with your (and my, for that matter) tax dollars.

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    • THETRUTHWORKS
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:01am

      WATCH THIS VIDEO AND LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY WE ARE IN THIS MESS!!!

      http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.09/obamadeception.html

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:00pm

    And the people’s will be damned, right?

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    • Revere1
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:04pm

      The judges don‘t care about the people’s opinions, because they think they’re smarter than all the people. At least Governor Daniels cared. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/05/mitch-daniels-signs-law-defunding.html

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:11pm

      the law gives police sweeping powers to arrest immigrants who haven’t committed crimes.
      ——
      We are discussing ILLEGALS here , right ?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:13pm

      Jenny Lind
      And the people’s will be damned, right?
      ————
      This is what democracy looks like ……or sumpin

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    • NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:13pm

      Planned Parenthood killing more minority babies than even their own parents form child abuse!!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:20pm

      There is a new Planned Parenthod video coming out on Tuesday .. I would check and see what happens affter that …producing it this is the same 22 year old woman who has exposed them as the LIARS they are before.

      TEA!

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    • Now this is Art
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:25pm

      abort muslims only

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    • momprayn
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:30pm

      @CATB – Yeah, I saw that on Huckabee tonight – that young girl – God bless her. Those who missed his show, check it out tomorrow when it reruns or online. Encouraging and refreshing — hope there will be more like her coming.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:34pm

      Was obama’s executive order limited to obamacare? Or, was it a general order prohibiting federal funding of abortions?

      I know, it doesn’t really matter – he had no intention of enforcing it, and it was non-binding anyways, but, it would still be nice to know and I’d enjoy hearing more and more about it.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:52pm

      @Now this is art….Is a baby born to Muslim parents any less precious than any other child?

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    • MASTER YODA
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:55pm

      The blood of those babies is on the hands of that neo-liberal judge who takes away the will of the people and God.

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    • sooner12
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:59pm

      WELLLLLLLLLLLLL, Medicaid is full of minorities and ‘po white folks sooooooooooooooo…………………

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    • dealer@678
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:00pm

      When the topic of abortion comes up look for the satanic left wing liberals to flood the post. just sayin

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:02pm

      @Cheezewhiz
      @Jenny Lind

      The government no longer represents the will of the people for the most part; it now is being run by the POTUS and his czars on so many issues and means, the people and the congress are without any real power for the most part anymore.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:22pm

      I am getting sick and tired of judges saying what we our ELECTED officials, can and can’t do with OUR taxpayer dollars. I honestly believe New York City, in and of it self, is destroying our nation. I was reading the posts about the Mom’s smoking marijuana and the way these kids think. The are so pathetically indoctrinated and driven towards being selfish self centered individuals, it makes me beyond sick. It is like this world has gone down the tubes Honestly, I wouldn’t give a darn what anybody did or said, and I think this is the way a lot of people feel, if they would just leave my liberties , my freedoms , and me alone. But NO, it doesn’t work that way, as we are seeing. They gain an inch, they drive for a hundred yards. Why are people so bent on giving up their liberties and freedoms in order to feel comfortable and secure being different. Isn’t that the whole point of being different ??NO, they want to be different, individuals, yet, popular and a part of everything that is the same as well…. Grrrrrrr SO now we have a walking and talking FREAK show where no morals, respect, honor apply. Zero integrity and NO ability in any capacity to be able to see how they are stepping on the throats and invading the private space of others. No kidding, many New Yorkers are completely out of touch with reality. Have no idea how a gun could possibly be a tool to somebody, just because they have no use foe it. Things are getting bad, real bad in this nation.

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    • adventpro
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:23pm

      Cheezwhiz, you took the words right out of my mouth. WTF?

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:27pm

      what gives them the right or power to force people to pay to murder another?
      …
      I Herby Declare, there is no longer a congress or a senate, there are no branches of the government; there are only The People of the Unites States of America. There will no longer be ‘federal mandates/regulations/laws’. Our State leaders shall be our local congress, and should the need to goto war arise, we will ‘unite’; as stated in our name.

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    • SnapTie
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:28pm

      49,000,000 dead babies since 1973. The most dangerous place in the world for babies is the womb.

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Federal prohibits taxpayers from paying for abortions. Abortion services, which are legal in the United States, are funded by public donors. There are no taxpayer funded abortions. Anywhere.

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    • NoStoppingUs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:55pm

      jzs you are a liar. Taxpayer money is used for abortions every day. It is disgusting, but you are reprobate, given over to a debased mind, you will never see the truth.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:03pm

      He will stand before God….I would not want to be him.

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:10pm

      Raise your withholdings to 9 and refuse to pay at the end of the year.
      Or just do nothing. Whatever.

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    • TheCoffinMaker
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:23pm

      …now stoke the ovens whilst I pare with my hatchet!

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:41pm

      NoStoppingUs, you need to look up the word “liar.” The word is misused on this website. Here, the definition is:
      liar (noun) – a person you disagree with; a name applied to someone you disagree with but cannot contradict with evidence; a noun applied to someone as way of dismissing their opinion when you lack the ability to bring any evidence to bear in support of their opinion.

      NoStoppingUs, you’re a pathetic liar.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:53pm

      Since when is it okay for a federal judge to go against a supreme court ruling? Could have guessed that the judge would be a woman too.

      Here’s my idea to curb abortions in a round about way, give men the right to disown or absolve themselves of parental responsibility in the first 2 trimesters like a woman has the right to do. It wouldn’t last long because it is obviously riduculous and it would point out how ridiculous it is for women to do the same.

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:02am

      Norway: Muslim rapist tells victim that in Islam, women have no rights

      https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/130c789700694e6f

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:08am

      @JZS

      Please explain, in detail, exactly how you think that works.

      Do I have the right to tell the government precisely how I want each penny of MY tax dollars spent?
      Or does my contribution go into the general fund, to be used for any, and or all Government expenditures?

      If I give the government one dollar, I am supporting everything they do.

      If the Government then gives PP one cent of my dollar, then I, and the government are supporting everything PP does.

      I would really like to hear how you can explain otherwise.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:12am

      @SGTB

      I can’t wait to see some of the responses to your Post.

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    • the hawk
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:14am

      JB.KIBS
      the men in black( fBI, DHLS, NSA,) will be casing your house ! for your post.
      Best Wishes !

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    • NoStoppingUs
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:21am

      JZS you are a pathetic liar. What perversions do you engage in? What are you hiding? Why do you love death? Are you a tool of the devil?

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:40am

      Therightsofbilly, hi Billy. I’ll try to answer your question in detail. You ask, “Do I have the right to tell the government precisely how I want each penny of MY tax dollars spent?”

      No, you don’t. That’s impractical. Your tax dollars go to a lot of things. To fix the potholes in front of your street or otherwise maintain the roads you drive on, to replace streetlights, to replace sewage pipes from your house as they collapse, to maintain phone and electrical lines to your house, to maintain water lines to your house, to pay for the schools and teachers who educate the next generation of Americans, to pay wages the Fire Department to keep your house from burning down or perform CPR when a family member has a heart attack, to pay the police who go after the bad guys, to pay wages to military who go after the bad guys, to pay for interstate highways to transport goods from one part of the country to another.

      I could go on, obviously, indefinitely. Your taxes and mine pay for the benefits of the country we live in. But to answer your question, no, you don’t get to decide whether a dollar goes to maintain the road in front of your house, or replace the streetlight across town. If you don’t like the way the dollars are being spent, then you vote for someone who claims they represent you better.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:59am

      @JZS

      OK, I was not totally clear.

      My first questions were rhetorical. I was trying to illustrate a point. I understand that I have no input as to how my tax dollars are spent.

      What I would really like for you to do is address the comments in the second half of my post.

      I kind of thought you would have picked up on that.

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    • FlatFoot
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:17am

      So, then, is the Federal Judge saying that Planned Parenthood is part of a Federal Agency? Or, is the judge saying that Planned Parenthood is a Federal Dept in and of itself? Or, what, exactly? Otherwise, how could a Federal Judge, who is in the tank for blood thirsty baby murdering Democrats obviously, order that -by law- their taxpayer supported funding cannot be defunded? This Judge is simply a partisan hack.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:30am

      Now all law abiding citizens are being forced to pay to murder babies. How sick does this country have to get before progressives will be happy?

      http://www.allenwestforpresident.us Help us draft a real Conservative!

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    • Libertarian
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:56am

      The states are a carbon copy of the federal government in regard to the set up of the powers of government “Executive, Legislative & Judiciary“ per Article 4 Section 4 ”The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, …..”

      Federalist Paper #78 “The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.”

      Therefor we know that a judge has no FORCE nor WILL, just an opinion over the existing law.

      This judge is behaving badly. This is in Article 3 Section 1 “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior,…….”

      That is all

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    • Erabin
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:04am

      The point is that you’re not living in a Democracy. The will of the people only elects officials who will then make decisions for the people. This was specifically enacted to prevent a tyranny of the majority. As soon as your tax dollars have arrived in the hands of the government, it’s up to the officials to decide how to spend them, hopefully for the greater good.

      End of story, really.

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    • one years food ration like glenn says
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:19am

      Yes, 80 murders a day paid for by YOU.. Gotta love the choice the people have .

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    • HKS
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 7:27am

      I am seeing a troubling trend. Who gave Judges the power to overrule lawmakers? Something is wrong with this picture. What come next? Everything evolves.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:47am

      Another federal judge saves the left’s sacred sacrament. Licentiousness, lust and greed are their gods and abortion is their holy sacrament.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 9:45am

      @JZS
      I note that you haven’t addressed @ the rights of Billy and his request that you answer the second part of his statement. I obvious as to why you haven’t. You support the murder of infants, willingly, knowingly and you have NO moral compass left to your usage anymore.
      God shall have his vengeance upon you, and not by the hand of man either, just so you know who exactly created and uncreated you in the end.

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:47pm

      “The decision sides with federal officials who said states cannot restrict Medicaid recipients’ freedom to choose their health care provider…”

      Yeah, thats the Federal government‘s health care panel’s role.

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:33pm

      Billy, I disagree. I can’t imagine a government, church, business or any organization where any individual would agree with everything they do. Maybe in another universe, but not here on Earth. You can support an organization, or politician for example, without agreeing with them 100%.

      Most of what PP does is provide low cost medical services and education for the poor.

      BetterDays – That‘s quite a spirited response given that I didn’t take a position on abortion, which I’m against. You may not know this, but abortion is legal in this country (see Roe v. Wade). If you want to live in a theocratic country, where someone like you gets to impose their morality on others, move to Iran.

      And if I were you, I start getting my arguments to St. Peter lined up. He’s sure to ask why, when Christ taught us to help the poor, you lived your life fighting against helping the poor, and supported instead the “money changers.” See Mathew 21:12.

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    • wildbill_b
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 1:54pm

      @jzs

      you need to look up the word “liar”. You are pathological liar, obviously, who even lies about the definition of liar.

      LIAR: –noun
      a person who tells lies.-http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/liar

      li·ar
      noun \ˈlī(-ə)r\
      : a person who tells lies-http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liar?show=0&t=1309110601

      LIES:–noun
      1.
      a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
      2.
      something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture.
      3.
      an inaccurate or false statement.

      Keep up the bad work.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:12pm

      judicial activism my arse. Nobody trying to stop breast exams or health care. Just don’t want the taxpayers paying for abortions. Stop twisting the issue and get it right.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 2:45pm

      @JZS

      Weak, and tortured arguments.

      I CAN imagine Churches, or businesses where i agree with everything they do, or I do not support them.

      But you are correct about governments. So thank you for supporting my stance that governments should not be involved with taking my money, and funding immoral activities.

      There is nothing immoral about building roads, unless it is the road to hell.

      Your last paragraph is absurd. Conservatives give far more to help the poor than liberals.
      We do it on an individual basis, and prefer not to have the government do it in our name via taxes.

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 3:31pm

      Erabin, I am a Hoosier and this is my state. We voted for our representatives and put them in position to legislate and represent us. They did thier job and passed a law under the guidelines of the Indiana State Constitution that was signed by our Govenor, nice and legal as it should be. They represented the people that voted them into office. I dont ever remember VOTING for this judge, wait,,,,the judge was appointed. Hmmmm, I didnt appoint that judge and niether did any of my neighbors and yet all of us voted for our representatives. Its nice to know that this appointed judge has the ability to null and void my states laws without ever having to be elected, by the will of the people, to thier position in government. This is a Republic and not a democracy so why is it that poll numbers really matter. We dont live under mob rule. Polls can be manipulated to show any results that the poll takers choose to promote. When you do take a poll though you should ask more than just 10 demorats what there opinions are and then not use thier answers to say that this is the opinion of a whole state. My community backs the law and we live in this state. BTW, how does PP that deals with “reproduction” get translated to mean HEALTH CARE???? You make it sound like they are removing the sole source of medical care for the poor which is BS. This judge has over turned the will of the people and that should be criminal. NO ONE voted for this judge/czar.

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    • Sound The Trumpet In Zion
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:00pm

      The judges has NO business sticking their noses in wether or not a states decides to fund or not fund an organization. This judge NEEDS to be removed from office for overstepping his boundries way over the line. That is like when the labor board tries to tell a company where and where not in any state they can start a plant and put workers to work. This is communism close to it’s worst. IMPEACH THAT JUDGE!!!

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 9:55am

      I according to the Constitution only CONGRESS has the right to say where tax dollars are spent. Not the judical system. The Judge hasn’t the authority to demand any spending of tax payers funds.

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    • riaf-decnalab
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Planned Parenthood was established for one main reason, to control (weed-out) the unwanted children that were being born into this world. This was a plan devised by Margaret Sanger to control the births of babies from it‘s inception in the early 1900’s. Their main business is to abort babies. To this day they still award the Maggie Award after the founder for the best performing employee of the business. What many people don’t realize is that there is an alternative in your community(ies) that offer the same services for free (sans abortion) such as pap smears, pre-natal care … etc and these are funded thru Christian organizations (mostly Catholics).

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