Posted on 10/10/2012 12:13:52 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
The Obama administration has joined with Planned Parenthood in a suit intended to stop an Arizona law that defunds the abortion giant. The Whole Womans Healthcare Funding Prioritization Act, signed into law last May by Republican Governor Jan Brewer (pictured with Obama), defunds abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. The law offers the state family planning funds instead to entities that provide comprehensive healthcare without an abortion option.
On October 4, Obama's Department of Justice filed a brief in the suit, claiming that the state of Arizona is not permitted to decide which groups will receive Medicare money it gets from the federal government. But Arizona Solicitor General David Cole pointed out that federal law allows states to establish meaningful provider qualifications for Medicare recipients, giving the state the authority to withhold funding from Planned Parenthood and other health care providers that perform abortions. Cole said Planned Parenthood could get family planning funds if it divorces its family planning services from its abortion business, reported LifeNews.com, a path Planned Parenthood is unlikely to take as long as it has such a solid ally in the White House.
In signing the defunding measure, Brewer called it a common-sense law that tightens existing state regulations and closes loopholes in order to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund abortions, whether directly or indirectly. When the bill was passed, Cathy Herrod of the Center for Arizona Policy explained that cutting funding to the abortion giant meant that more funding would now be available to groups that don't rely on the deadly procedure for revenue. The grants will be made to community health centers, Herrod said of the former Planned Parenthood funding, adding that there are many providers out there providing these services able to pick up the slack.
Marjorie Dannenfelser of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, which, along with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) provided the model legislation for the bill, said that when Arizona state lawmakers passed the measure, they were acting on behalf of the state's citizens, who do not want their tax dollars going to abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood, which performs more than 330,000 abortions a year.
Dannenfelser noted that the Obama administration's actions in filing the suit through the DOJ are on behalf of one of the president's staunches allies. While Planned Parenthood spends millions to re-elect President Obama and even sends its president, Cecile Richards, to campaign in Iowa this week, she said, the Obama Administration once again is stepping in to protect the bottom line of its top political ally and the nations largest abortion provider.
She added that in spite of nearly non-stop scandals on the part of Planned Parenthood, including allegations of the waste, abuse and potential fraud of millions of taxpayer dollars, President Obama has refused to allow a single tax dollar to be cut from Planned Parenthood at the federal level. When the states take matters into their own hands to protect taxpayers from the abortion industry, Obamas Administration promptly intervenes on the abortion businesses behalf.
ADF Senior Counsel Steven Aden said that the Arizona bill is worded in a way that allows the state to be good stewards of the peoples money in this regard. Its no surprise that Planned Parenthood would oppose that in light of their ongoing thirst for taxpayer dollars.
Arizona is the third state the Obama administration has sued for defunding Planned Parenthood, following Indiana and Texas. Wisconsin, Kansas, and North Carolina have also passed laws to defund the abortion giant, and all face lawsuits over the legislation.
Last year the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Texas law, affirming that the state could withhold funding from Planned Parenthood. Since then, the Obama Administration has withheld federal Medicaid dollars from the state until it agrees to restore Planned Parenthoods funding, reported Focus on the Family's CitizenLink.com. The case is again making its way through the federal court system, as is Indianas.
According to pro-life research, Planned Parenthood is responsible for the death of a pre-born baby approximately every 96 seconds. As for funding, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reported that between 2002 and 2009 pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood received over one billion dollars in federal funding, not to mention state and local grants. Planned Parenthood alone received $657.1 million in federal grants and contracts during that time period.
Case Closed.
How in the world is an abortion mill named Planned Parenthood????
Shouldn’t it be called Parent Preventionhood????
‘Unplanned parenthood’ requires abortions, in their view.
That Obama homo sure likes killing babies.
Has any president sued America before?
How many times has Hussein done it already?
The Obama administration has now sued us(Arizona) 6 times in one year, for one thing or another. What a vindictive little faggot this POTUS is.
I just read about studies of 9,000 lower income women in St. Louis who were offered free contraceptive services. With no cost involved many/most preferred long term prevention like IUDs (and I would imagine Norplant implants). The results were a significant reduction in teen pregnancies and abortions. Compared with national statistics, these pregnancies or abortions were ONE FIFTH of the national rates.
Why on earth would anyone who abhors abortions and teen pregnancies want to prevent women from getting these services?
I just read about studies of 9,000 lower income women in St. Louis who were offered free contraceptive services. With no cost involved many/most preferred long term prevention like IUDs (and I would imagine Norplant implants). The results were a significant reduction in teen pregnancies and abortions. Compared with national statistics, these pregnancies or abortions were ONE FIFTH of the national rates.
Why on earth would anyone who abhors abortions and teen pregnancies want to prevent women from getting these services?
Can somebody tell me what Medicare $$$ and Planned Parenthood have to do with each other? Last time I checked, women of retirement age don’t get pregnant and don’t need abortions. If Medicare $$ are being used for other than retirees, that is fraud and the guilty parties should be locked up.
Sure they have, for stuff like refusal to comply with civil rights or voting laws. I don’t think they’ve ever sued states over abortion before.
Why on earth would anyone who is conservative think taxpayers should have to fund it? Anyone who has a mind to do so can write a check to Planned Parenthood. Conservatives don't force others to do so through taxation.
We don't mind them having the services, it's being forced to PAY for them that's really pissing us off.
You want a 'low income' solution when you can't afford abortions, contraceptives or having children?
DON'T HAVE SEX!
Oh...sorry. That would involve things like self-restraint and personal responsibility, now wouldn't it?
Self restraint, especially likely to happen with teen age girls and their horny boyfriends, stepfathers, etc.
So? Not my problem partner.
LOL! The 'but they might get preeeegnat' whine is just so much BS. We either have a say so in what we pay for, or we stay out of their uterus.
You can't have it BOTH ways.
sure hope we don’t end up having to pay for a Romney war in Syria and Iran, or an Obama one either, although I think the first possibility is more likely.
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