Posted on 07/06/2012 6:30:53 AM PDT by IbJensen
WEST MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, July 5, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Months after Tennessee state and local officials chose to defund Planned Parenthood, the Obama administration has directly awarded the abortion provider a federal contract restoring some of the lost funds.
The administration has awarded Planned Parenthood in Memphis with $400,000 in Title X family planning funds.
The state’s legislature and Republican governor, Bill Haslam, took pains to transfer family planning dollars from facilities that perform abortions to other local hospitals and health centers. Local officials also opted to prioritize those who had not performed a procedure many of the state’s residents find morally objectionable.
Last November, Shelby County became the last county in the state to strip the abortion industry of taxpayer largesse after awarding Planned Parenthood’s grant to Christ Community Health Services (CCHS).
The federal grant represented little more than half the usual taxpayer-funded tab, which totaled $727,000 last year, according to Brian Harris, president of Tennessee Right to Life.
The Obama administration made a similar move in a different state last September, directly funding Planned Parenthood in New Hampshire to the tune of $1 million after legislators defunded the abortion giant.
“This end run around the people of Tennessee will serve to underscore the urgent need to elect a pro-life president, Senate and Congress in November,” said Harris.
The federal grant was announced by Rep. Steven Cohen, D-TN, who said Planned Parenthood has been helping young women “lead happier, healthier lives for years.”
Rep. Cohen once equated those who campaigned against the president’s health care bill with Nazis repeating “a Big Lie just like Goebbels.”
Harris expressed disappointment and hope at the announcement. “We’ve done good work here in Tennessee electing pro-life majorities to the Legislature and Congress,” he said. “But all of that can apparently be undone by a single official unless we have a pro-life president and a pro-life senate solidly committed to defending the weakest and most vulnerable of all.”
Two, he's a big-time communist and, like all big-time communists is thick headed and stupid. But then he was born in Kenya of a promiscuous communist mother and a communist African who never legally married his mother. So, this makes him, like Billy Goat Clinton a basta-d.
If indeed you are a basta-d you must act like one.
Soetoe Obama hates this nation and is public enemy number one, so......let's give him four more years of this bullshit!
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
...so Obastard wants black children aborted..?
Yes.
0bama wants black babies to be killed.
0bama wants black women to be injured and rendered infertile.
0bama must be some sort of Ku Klux Klan anti-black racist.
Not to worry; Abortion funding will be un-limited to the baby-killing mills, with Obamacare.
Just how does a president skip the legislative appropriations process and just dole out cash directly to anyone he wants?
How does this work exactly?
Just how does a president skip the legislative appropriations process and just dole out cash directly to anyone he wants?
How does this work exactly?
Isn’t there a sheriff in TN that has the stones to arrest him and charge with breaking the law? Or is the TN legislature ready to quit since they are “obsolete”?
The Imperial Presidency. “The law is for thee, not for me”
It's the new "American Way".
Obama pulled out his checkbook?
How is Obama able to keep handing out money without congress?
Penn Jillette was on Hannity last night, he is right.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/penn-jillette-on-hannity-29897811.html
but I won’t be voting Gary Johnson!
Well, that leaves out the "Republican" nominee.
“This end run around the people of Tennessee will serve to underscore the urgent need to elect a pro-life president,
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Well that excludes Willard...
Does seem that way, doesn't it?
Well, Obama and everyone were running against earmarks. Now it’s Obama and the executive branch that are doling out earmarks. At least Congress has Constitutional authority for spending via earmarks. There is no such authority for the executive branch.
“West Memphis, Tenessee”? West Memphis is across the river in Arkansas. And the City of Memphis, as all us locals know, is actually the Capital of North Mississippi.
“Just how does a president skip the legislative appropriations process and just dole out cash directly to anyone he wants?
How does this work exactly?”
There are too many standing laws, for the president to twist, pick, and turn. Also to be frank Obama cares little for adhering to any of them.
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