Posted on 12/16/2015 6:28:58 AM PST by wagglebee
AUSTIN, Texas, December 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Seven weeks after declaring their intention to defund Planned Parenthood, state officials haven't followed through on the threat.
Instead, reports The Texas Tribune, when Planned Parenthood took the defund effort to court last week, Judge Sam Sparks canceled the hearing because state officials did not submit paperwork to take away Planned Parenthood's funding.
However, the state's top pro-life group has expressed confidence in Governor Greg Abbott's "goals of cancelling the Medicaid contracts of the Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas."
The state said in an October 21 "notice of termination" that it had "reliable information indicating a pattern of illegal billing practices" by Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. If proven, such accusations would be in keeping with practices found in an Alliance Defending Freedom report of Planned Parenthood billing practices.
Abbott's office did not respond to a request for comment, instead referring LifeSiteNews to the inspector general of the Texas Department of State Health Services. A spokesperson for that office declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
A spokesperson for the attorney general's office likewise did not respond to a request for comment by press time. However, Texas Right to Life's John Seago told LifeSiteNews that his group "supports Governor Abbott's and Inspector General Bowen's goals of canceling the Medicaid contracts of the Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas."
While the Tribune's coverage points to several pending claims of illegal activity dating back several years that the state has allegedly not moved on, Seago said, "We believe that Governor Abbott and Inspector General Bowen will thoroughly prepare and present the best case of why Planned Parenthood is not deserving of taxpayer funding and how they have disqualified themselves from Medicaid through illegal activity, including committing fraud to steal money from Texas taxpayers."
"We applaud the strong case they have built against the abortion giant in Texas, including focusing on the much neglected fact that Planned Parenthood has been accused of, has admitted to, and has been found guilty of Medicaid fraud," continued Seago. "Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas have been very successful at entrenching themselves in tax-funded programs, and there are no shortcuts in removing them."
Those familiar with the case believe that rather than shying away from a weak case, Abbott's office is building a complex case against America's abortion giant.
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It is critical that the electorate and the conservative media keep the pressure on these officials. Hold them accountable to doing what is right!
“Big Murder and Pro Life, Inc. have a codependent relationship, they both want the issue rather than a resolution.”
Yup. It’ll always be just a little too difficult for our so-called allies to actually do something when it comes to ending infanticide.
When Operation Rescue and similar groups engaged in direct action to flood the abortion mills with pro-lifers who wold de-sterilize everything in sight, break raw eggs in the suction machines and resist any efforts of law enforcement to extricate them so that the killing might continue, National Right to Life Committee and similar "respectables" ran for the hills and could not disassociate themselves quickly enough from actual effective action lest pro-life contributors be spoiled by even a meager degree of success.
When it became obvious that the "respectable" pro-lifers had no stomach for being arrested inside the Planned Barrenhood death camps, the Clintons and Big Murder responded with the infamous Federal Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and effectively shut down Operation Rescue by threatening its practitioners with fiscal ruin. NRTLC responded by thanking their lucky stars that the Clintons were able to stifle direct action against abortion.
No less an authority than the Alan Guttmacher Institute (Planned Barrenhood's wholly owned tax exempt "think tank") found that on Rescue days, fully one out of every three babies scheduled for slaughter at a "Rescued" abortion mill would eventually be born alive.
Big Murder and Pro Life, Inc. agree: Better to send out more fund-raising letters and fatten the cofers, the pay checks, the pension plans and, if Big Murder can sell enough dead baby organs, to fund the Lamborghini purchase account.
Eight years from now, we will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade (Roe vs. Western Civilization? Roe vs. America? Roe vs. America's Future? Roe vs. [fill in the blank]). National Right to Life will be as inclined as Planned Barrenhood to break out the funny hats and noisemakers and to pop a case or two of bubbly.
I don't recall National Right to Life Committee praising the expose by James O'Keefe of Planned Barrenhood's sale for profit of the organs of the babies they have butchered. Golly, how would the respectable middle class neighbors of the NRTLC officials react in revulsion to actual effective pro-life activity?
I have said it before and I will say it again, they "hate" each other the same way Tom and Jerry did in the old cartoons.
They BOTH understand that they need the threat of the other in order to raise money, an actual "victory" for either side would cost them billions.
In the early 19th century the abolitionists goal was to END slavery, not regulate it, scale it back or anything else. Just end it. Ending abortion has NEVER been the goal of Pro Life, Inc., their goal has been to keep their organization relevant by continually pushing "and then you can kill the baby" laws that sound good in press releases and fundraising literature, but have never actually saved a single life.
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