Posted on 04/15/2017 9:00:13 PM PDT by SMGFan
A 16-year-old girl from Tucson slammed Arizona Republican senator Jeff Flake during a town hall on Thursday, grilling him over his support for a law that will give states the right to deny Title X funds to family-planning centers that also provide abortions, like Planned Parenthood.
President Trump signed the bill into law on Thursday, the same day as Flake's town hall, and it was seen by many as a strike at Planned Parenthood, which uses Title X money to provide healthcare to millions of low-income women across the country.
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Bingo, congratulations for the first comment #5 that gets to the REAL point!
What about OUR 'right to choose' to not pay for her abortion?
I choose to own a handgun. It’s clearly a right in plain view there in the constitution. Why did I have to pay for it?
Ask the questions: you’re 16. Are you practicing unsafe sex at that age? Do you plan to practice unsafe sex? If no, then why ask?
Sure honey, your body, your rights
But, you are laying claim to MY TAXES
Why is it always the same song and dance?
1. What happens behind closed doors is none of my business
2. Your reproductive rights are none of my business.
But
I AM HELD financially responsible for any thing you do, whether you have a baby and depend upon WIC, food stamps and free school, housing, medical, clothing and everything else.
And I am forced to pay for your abortion if you decide that you don’t want to have the baby.
Yep, I guess the snowflakes have decided that forcing us paying to kill their babies is their right.
Obama, the constitutional scholar logic.
WE ought to ask that question more.
Another imbecile. They’re like locusts.
Killing innocent unborn babies is NOT “health care”!
Why do you have the right to end another persons life? What of their rights?
“them” should be him/her
“Why is it your right to take away my right to life” - Baby in womb
Not only have the states never amended the Constitution to expressly protect the so-called “right” that the 16 year old girl is claiming, but neither have the states expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for the issues addressed by Title X.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
In fact, if Justice Gorsuch is approved but turns out to be a liberal Trojan Horse then we will need 67 patriot senators to remove a House-impeached Gorsuch from office.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed above.
If Senator Flake couldn’t handle this over-the-plate fastball with at least a few of the points made on this thread, he shouldn’t be a United States Senator.
Someone is taking away women’s right to choose whether or not to have an abortion? When did this happen and why isn’t it front page news?
Oh, someone is taking away her FREE abortions, not her right to choose. Exactly how does one equate to the other?
Right. It doesn’t... Poor thing will just have to start to be responsible now or have the bambino I guess. Welcome to the real world little lady but I do hope you wait until you at least become an adult, say 25 years old, before crashing your future by becoming a baby maker.
She has a “right” to not be impregnated. She has NO RIGHT to MURDER an ensuing child.
Why should I pay for her right to choose?
Good point.
Regarding the politically correct right to do with your body as you please, a fictitious right promoted by corrupt lawmakers to win votes from low-information citizens iwo, citizens who have evidently never been taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, please note the following.
The 18th Amendment was an attempt to stop people from drinking alcoholic beverages, that amendment later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
So the Constitution’s history clearly indicates that citizens don’t have the absolute right to do with their bodies as they please.
He should have said....
Because it’s not the governments job to pay for your birth control....that is what you’re using abortions for. It’s also not the governments job to pay to kill babies.
Of course I’m sure he didn’t say anything like that. I don’t even have to read it to know he gave some weasely politician answer.
...because it is the duty of legislators to discriminate between that which is lawful and that which is criminal, in order to protect the rights if ALL people and not just the interests of a few criminals who confuse their desires with rights.
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