Was Federal Ruling Good for Family Planning Providers? ("uncompromising" Rick Perry)

The federal government's rejection this week of a state request to exclude certain providers — namely Planned Parenthood — from the Medicaid Women's Health Program came as a victory to some family planning advocates, and a travesty to others.

Sandie Haverlah, an Austin lobbyist for Planned Parenthood, said it's a great outcome because it buys advocates time and forces the state to re-evaluate its stance on trying to force Planned Parenthood out of business. "It means the state is probably considering their position,” she said.

But Fran Hagerty, chief executive of the Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of Texas, characterized the federal decision — which extends the program for three months while state officials decide whether to back down from their request — as “the ugliest possible scenario.” She fears the state will opt to end the Women’s Health Program rather than allow Planned Parenthood to continue to be part of it, and that 130,000 low-income women may end up losing out on cancer screenings and birth control.

Following legislators' direction last session, Texas' Health and Human Services Commission asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for permission to operate the Women's Health Program without including clinics linked to providers that perform abortions. (No abortions are provided with Medicaid dollars, or through the Women's Health Program.) On Monday, the federal agency said no — and that doing so would violate the Social Security Act. Instead, federal officials offered to extend the existing program through March to buy time to negotiate a renewal agreement with the state.

On Tuesday, state health officials said they would consult with Attorney General Greg Abbott to determine how to proceed. But Gov. Rick Perry doesn't appear to be in a compromising mood. In a statement from the campaign trail, he said Texas is "committed to protecting life in Texas, and state law prohibits giving state dollars to abortion providers and affiliates — a fact the Obama Administration ignores."

If state officials decide to forgo the Women's Health Program in protest, Hagerty said major hospitals like the University of Texas Medical Branch and Parkland in Dallas would be able to maintain some semblance of family planning services, “but nothing like what we have now.” If the program does not extend past March, Hagerty said, community clinics would have to dramatically reduce services, lay off employees or shut down completely.

Perry is "blaming the feds and saying that this money was going to go to abortions. That’s a complete lie," Hagerty said. “This is a federal program, and they have any right to say you have to let every qualified provider participate. You can’t pick and choose who you like and don’t like.”

Nearly 130,000 women a year rely on the Women’s Health Program. About 46 percent of those clients go to Planned Parenthood clinics for nonabortion services like breast and cervical cancer exams, STD testing and birth control. In fiscal year 2010, HHSC reported that Planned Parenthood clinics received 44 percent of the program’s total reimbursements, making it the largest provider of Women’s Health Program services.

State Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, said the future of the program now rests with HHSC — and by default, with Perry, who appointed the agency's commissioner. He said the Legislature’s “draconian” restrictions against Planned Parenthood “have nothing to do with abortion. It has to do with giving women the right to go where they choose for family planning services.”

But abortion opponents are throwing the blame right back at the federal government. “By threatening to cancel the Women's Health Program in Texas, the Obama Administration is showing it would sooner deny tens of millions of dollars of medical services to low-income women rather than allow the State of Texas to cut off tax funding to Planned Parenthood,” Joe Pojman, the executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, wrote in an email.

State Sen. Robert Deuell, R-Greenville, said there is a quick solution to this entire debate. “The problem could be solved tomorrow if Planned Parenthood just renounces abortions and just does family planning and comprehensive care, which they’re capable of," he said. "Then we could provide a lot of family planning, and there wouldn’t be abortions and this problem would go away.”

Hagerty said family planning in Texas is trapped in a culture war, and that it's getting increasingly hard for providers to remain optimistic. “This is a political battle that we’re going to lose," she said. "There’s no winning here."

>>Find some verifiable, credible facts not this garbage.<<

Is the information on this site in error?

http://www.akdn.org/Content/863

What information from the following is in error?

http://www.theismaili.org/cms/900/Mawlana-Hazar-Imam-signs-agreement-between-the-Ismaili-Imamat-and-the-State-of-Texas

Are there provable errors in the following account?

http://www.prophezine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=391:rick-perrys-dangerous-muslim-compromise&catid=41:top-headlines

Is the following not a quote from Perry?

“It is a great honor to be in the presence of the Imam of 16 million Muslims around the world, a global humanitarian leader, a man of peace with a pluralistic vision for people around the world, His Highness, the Aga Khan, the 49th Hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. Your Highness, on behalf of 23 million Texans, and over 600,000 thousand Muslims living in Texas, I extend our heartfelt appreciation for your 50 years of great international leadership. We are delighted to welcome you to the Lone Star State and participate in the celebration of your Golden Jubilee. I am also grateful to the many federal, state and local leaders in attendance tonight. By their presence, these special guests convey the profound respect that exists in the Western World for His Highness’ work and leadership.”

This has all been debunked before.

But if you insist:

http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/1945

Salon.com recently pulled a neat little trick, one that is currently paying great dividends The liberal mega-site recently ran a piece that essentially accuses Governor Rick Perry of being a “pro-Sharia candidate” (complete with a ridiculously crude photoshopped image of Perry standing next to a Muslim crescent).

Of course, the title of the piece, “Rick Perry: The Pro-Sharia Candidate?” ends with a question mark. Ha ha! It’s not an accusation – it’s just a question! Aren’t we clever, Salon.com.

And where does Ms. Geller link to back up her claim? Salon! Okay, do you see the humor here? Pamela Geller is relying on SALON!

Salon – one of the most Islam-friendly, Muslim-huggin’, “Ground Zero Mosque”-embracing sites on the ‘net – a site that DETESTS Pamela Geller and rips her at every opportunity – has now become Ms. Geller’s source for the “truth” about Rick Perry.

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Alana Goodman of the Jewish magazine Commentary reported that she received an email from an associate of Frank Gaffney saying they have no problem with the progressive Ismaili sect, who are a persecuted minority in Saudi Arabia and that Perry’s meeting with the Aga Khan would actually make him unpopular in that Mideast country.

The Aga Khan IV has received countless awards from countries around the world, including many from the US for his philanthropy and contributions to architecture.

His step-mother was the actress Rita Hayworth whose daughter (the Aga Khan’s half sister), Yasmin, has raised more than $42 million for the Alzheimer’s Association (Rita died from the disease).

He is recently divorced from his wife, Princess Inaara Aga Khan (born Gabriele Homey) who in 2007, travelled to ISRAEL at the invitation of Shimon Peres, to support peace-building projects among Israeli and Palestinian children and meeting with regional leaders to promote tolerance as the foundation for peace in the Middle East.

In 2005, the UN and Aga Khan hospital in Nairobi hosted an emergency drill in collaboration with the ISRAELI EMBASSY.

Aga Khan family are doing good deeds throughout the world and are moderate Muslims who promote peace with ISRAEL.

Perry is very pro Israel.

He gave one speech and according to Geller he’s a PAL??? {Rita Hayworth’s step son}.

He said a speech at “Americans for Tax Reform” and Norquist just happen to be there - so that makes him his PAL???

Plus her article sounds like an ad for her new book.

More vomit and more garbage being spilled regarding Perry.

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Was Reagan a Conservative Nightmare????

http://simerg.com/special-series-his-highness-the-aga-khan-iv/literary-reading-part-ii-worldwide-honours-for-prince-karim-aga-khan-underline-impact-of-ismaili-imamats-contribution-to-humanity-2/

November 20, 1985: The late US President Ronald Reagan meeting with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev at His Highness the Aga Khan’s mansion, Maison de Saussure, during the Geneva Summit.

President Reagan and Former First Lady Nancy Reagan had stayed at La Maison de Saussure, an 18th Century chateau a few miles north of Geneva and the Geneva home of Prince Karim Aga Khan.

President Ronald Reagan of the USA and his wife Nancy Reagan took over the Aga Khan’s 18th century Maison de Saussure in a village near Geneva as a base for the summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

President Reagan proclaimed at the end of that summit that he and Gorbachev had found a key to super-power peace (1985-11)

I’ve seen and read all of those dancing around the edges articles and apologetics but have noticed that not one addresses the issue of the insidious creeping Sharia that ALL Muslims have as their goal. Europe played that same game over the decades until today they have all but lost the battle.

Scripture tells us that even wishing them “God speed” makes us partakers.

2 John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Those who would pander to the Muslims in this country have gone well beyond that and Perry is one of them. As a Christian I will stand firm on the words of scripture. I will speak out about the dangers to America by the willing and complicit attitudes of those who don’t stand firm against the growing danger to this country by Muslims of any stripe.

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