Posted on 10/27/2012 2:48:01 PM PDT by smoothsailing
October 26, 2012
Steven Ertelt
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to grant an additional hearing to Planned Parenthood regarding Texas’ legislation to end taxpayer funding of abortion companies, including Planned Parenthood.
The decision effectively ends the legal controversy surrounding the law and affirms Texas’ right to stop taxpayer dollars from flowing to abortion providers.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry applauded the decision, saying, “Today’s ruling affirms yet again that in Texas the Women’s Health Program has no obligation to fund Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform or promote abortion. In Texas we choose life, and we will immediately begin defunding all abortion affiliates to honor and uphold that choice.”
This morning the Susan B. Anthony List praised the decision.
“States like Texas have the right to stop taxpayer funding of abortion providers. The Fifth Circuit court’s decision validates this and we applaud Texas for getting taxpayers out of the abortion business,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Abortion-centered organizations like Planned Parenthood neither need nor deserve taxpayer dollars.
Dannenfelser told LifeNews: “Governor Perry, the pro-life Texas state legislature, as well as our friends at Texas Right to Life deserve much praise. Even after the Obama Administration carried out its threat and cut funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program because the state defunded abortion providers, Texas refused to yield. Governor Perry vowed to keep the Women’s Health Program, which serves vulnerable women, fully funded using state dollars. Texas has shown the rest of America what it means to be both pro-woman and pro-life.”
Last year the Texas state legislature defunded abortion providers including Planned Parenthood of state-controlled family planning funding. In December 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a letter to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission rejecting Texas’ law by turning down the state’s request to run their own family planning program. In March 2012, HHS officially stopped $30 million in federal funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program because they excluded Planned Parenthood. Governor Perry pledged to fully fund the program using state dollars.
In August 2012, the Fifth Circuit court overturned the April 2012 ruling of a Texas judge who granted a preliminary injunction to Planned Parenthood affiliates while they sued the state of Texas over the law. Previously, Texas Governor Rick Perry pointed out that Planned Parenthood clinics represent less than two percent of the more than 2,500 enrolled providers.
Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against Texas contending that the new law prohibiting it from participating in the Women’s Health Program is unconstitutional discrimination. The lawsuit asked the court for an injunction to stop enforcement of the rules preventing Planned Parenthood from getting taxpayer funding via the program , saying the rules violate their rights by putting an “unconstitutional condition on their participation” in the Women’s Health Program.
However, state officials quickly appealed the ruling — with Attorney General Greg Abbott filing an emergency motion for stay in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Jerry E. Smith granted the stay “pending further order of this court” and requested a response from the abortion business by the close of business today.
In response, President Obama withdrew all federal support for the program, and Planned Parenthood sued the state of Texas. Judge Lee Yeakel blocked the law from going into effect, yet Yeakel’s ruling was appealed by Attorney General Greg Abbott, and the Fifth Circuit Court removed the block.
In addition to these approximately 4,000 agencies, Governor Perry’s office has identified another 2,500 eligible providers with 4,600 locations across the state. Planned Parenthood runs 69 facilities.
Before the lawsuit, the Obama Administration cut off the Women’s Health Care Program (WHP) for over 100,000 Texas women at over 2,400 providers for the sake of Planned Parenthood, which provides only limited health service at 44 facilities in Texas. In response, Governor Rick Perry and state lawmakers found their own funding for it.
Unbelievable! First the UN and now PP.
Time to start thinking about a move to TX - I hear Corpus Christi is excellent.
Cowboys or Texans fan...that is the question.
Thank you Texas for showing us the way.
Make illegals work and if they want to live here they work in fields for three years for free ( room and board) they get a shovel and a spade; it's more than their countries would give us were we illegals. And then they get in line with those that are doing it right.
Get rid of la Raza, get rid of Obama and the czars, get rid of anything Code Pink, or Soros, get rid of all those textbooks ...*whew" I'm pooped but there's a LOT more
Get rid of the illegal health care plan, Holder, Sotomayer, Kagan and everything Obama has done make it illegal so we can reverse ALL OF HIS thuggish sodomizing ways. Get rid of all of it. Make America America again. all of it.
My name is Karliner, and I approve this message.
As far as elected officials, absolutely! Yet Obama can direct his Justice Department to "selectively" enforce laws already on the books and refuse to defend laws passed by a duly elected Congress? By telling ICE to stand down in prosecuting certain people here illegally and refusing to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), he has shirked his sworn duty to the Constitution. These actions alone should be grounds for impeachment and even more certainly to deny him reelection. Wake up America!!!
Amen! Praise God! And they NEVER tell these girls that 10, 20, 30 years later they will become very depressed because they killed their unborn baby. It is tragic. I have met women who had abortions when they were young and dumb, and now they are SO depressed. it is just so tragic.
No, we're just a-holes that think fast and talk slow.
The monitors can enter the state. They can't break the law of the land about 100 ft within the boundry of the polling place. They might not get arrested. They might get detained.
We ain't heroic. We're jerks. Just like jerks in NY or NJ or anywhere on the east or left coast. Except we're mostly conservative, and don't get in your face until it's way, way, way too late.
I have rope. And tall trees.
/johnny
Up near Newfoundland. That's far north Texas.
Down here in the Heart of Texas, if it don't have a stinger in it's mouth, it's got one in its tail. The grassburrs bite the ankles. We have fleas the size of housecats and ticks that just suck a dog dry to the bone.
Summer heat looks like a nuke just hit, and winter winds don't have the promise of snow to moderate the temps, and hold in a little heat.
The girls are gap-toothed and ugly, the men are slow speaking and quick to anger.
Honestly? Call the State Department and ask what shots you need before you venture into the Heart of Texas.
It's an ugly place.
If I owned hell and Texas, I'd rent Texas and live in hell. ;)
Only bright spot is that Texans never exagerate.
/johnny
No, but thanks for playing.
And you forgot to mention dangerous.
/johnny
No, we agree 100%. God didn’t grant these funds, men did. It is up to men to take them back. That right resides either in the ballot box or the legislature. I don’t know the Texas Constitution, but the American Constitution doesn’t even allow this garbage, yet here we are.
Sounds wonderful!!! ;-)
October though April, the whole state is dry and pleasant. May through September is monotonously hot and humid. The Panhandle is not so bad in the summer because of the elevation. It would be about like Sacramento.
Texas is pretty big so there is a variety in the weather.
As a general rule,, the further West you go and the further fromt he coast you go, the less rain. Means the SE part of state east of Houston is the wettest, and El Paso and Amarillo the driest.
As to wind, there is more wind typically in the drier climates, and right along the coast. The coast offers temperate weather as I recall living in Corpus Christi along the bay and never wore anything but a light sweater all winter.
East Texas, roughly everything East of a line between Dallas and Houston is not windy at all, gets good moisture and is pretty with all the forests and rolling hills.
That’s where I have our ranch.
Yes, I remember reading that, a long time ago. Maybe I'm just showing my age.
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