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Posted on 02/24/2012 5:11:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At CPAC, Texas Gov. Rick Perry quipped, “I haven’t left the fight; I just went home, reloaded my Mag and am fighting on a different front.” Clearly, he wasn’t kidding. Texas today cut Medicaid funding to abortion providers — even though the administration threatened to cut the state’s funding if it did so. The Daily Caller reports:
On Thursday, Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner Thomas Suehs signed a rule at the behest of lawmakers and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott that will formally ban Planned Parenthood affiliates and other abortion providers from participating in Texas’ Women’s Health Program.
The administration had threatened to revoke federal funding from the state-federal Medicaid program if Texas went through with the ban.
“The Obama administration is trying to force Texas to violate our own state laws or they will end a program that provides preventative health care to more than 100,000 Texas women,” said Allison Castle, a spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry told The Texas Tribune. “This boils down to the rule of law — which the state of Texas respects and the Obama administration does not.”
The ball is back in the administration’s court now: Does Obama want to actually cut funding and potentially jeopardize the Texas Women’s Health program, which might not be able to survive without federal funding? That sends the message that Obama cares less that women have access to health care than that they receive health care from certain providers — namely, providers that also offer abortions.
Either Rick Perry just called Obama’s bluff or this is about to be an interesting issue. Planned Parenthood has already retorted with its typical demagoguery: “No one’s politics should interfere with a woman’s access to health care,” Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast President and CEO Peter J. Durkin said in a statement. “It is shameful that Governor Perry and Commissioner Suehs continue to politicize lifesaving breast cancer screenings and birth control access for low-income women.”
Would Planned Parenthood stand by that statement as it applies to President Obama, too? Surely other providers in the Texas Women’s Health Exchange provide breast cancer screenings and birth control access. Eliminating abortion providers from the exchange doesn’t jeopardize women’s health access — but eliminating the exchange altogether would. It’s obvious why Planned Parenthood would care more about which organization women turn to — they’ve got a business to run. Why don’t they just admit that and stop the rhetoric about “women’s health”?
I’ll bet the demons are shrieking in Austin tonight.
The Republic of Texas rides again.
I greatly fear that when Obama says stop the Federal Medicaid checks, Texas will say Uncle Obama. Without even going through courts first.
Good news. And, BTW, abortion is not health care, virtually in every case. It is lifestyle management, at the expense of an innocent child.
It won’t matter they still get plenty of public funding from the feds
GO, RICK!
Very well put, and no matter how you stand on the issue the federal government has no business paying for it!!
I’m miles away (location and ideology) from Austin and I wondered what that sound was. I thought it was coyotes. But it does have a curiously human sound now that I listen closely.
I need to write them a letter and tell them YES! YES! YES!
At last!
And where does this “federal funding” come from anyway? Let’s not forget that it’s what’s left of our money after the federal union bureaucrats and crooks have siphoned off their percentage. Better that we states fund what we want ourselves.
Got the wrong State, this ain’t Illynoise.
Know where the term “Draw a line in the sand” comes from? About 60 miles SW of Austin.
It was more of a breast cancer screening than I would have received at any Planned Parent In Da Hood.
This makes me even more proud to be from Texas!
Someone innocent dying for the sins of another.....where have I heard that before.....
The Gov. had outpatient surgery this morning on his collarbone which was injured back in an 09 bicycle accident. Everything went well he’s doing fine or it is reported as such.
Ill Noise would never dare even nibble the hand that feeds it, let alone bite.
Where you heard it before, the innocent sacrifice volunteered.
The Rather camp is hopping mad (again).
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GOVERNOR PERRY! GOD BLESS YOU & GOD BLESS TEXAS! |
RICK PERRY, that is, right?
WOO-HOO!!!
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