Posted on 03/05/2014 10:28:27 AM PST by mbarker12474
February 24, 2014 9:33 am • By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services 17
PHOENIX — Arizona cannot cut off family planning funding to Planned Parenthood simply because the organization also provides abortions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning.
Without comment the justices rejected... privately financed anti-abortion group to overturn lower court rulings ...
Both Arizona and federal laws already bar....
But the state,... participation in the federal Medicaid program, ... federal government pays 90 percent....
Medicaid law ... has included Planned Parenthood.
... Rep. Justin Olson, R-Mesa, who sponsored the legislation, ...
... Appellate Judge Marsha Berzon said ...... any qualified provider. ...
Attorney General Tom Horne,...
(Excerpt) Read more at azstarnet.com ...
Yeah, and that appears to be the root of the problem. The states (and we the people) would all be a lot better off if they told the feds to shove their blood money and the strings attached. We’d rather retain our freedom, thankyouverymuch. And where do the feds get that money anyway? They rob it from the taxpayers. It’s tyranny.
I keep thinking that that Convention of the States to adopt specific amendments as outlined by Mark Levin in the Liberty Amendments might be the best way to go.
This wasn't a ruling, just a denial of cert. And not one Justice dissented.
Screw Roberts and his merry band of robbers. They take from everybody and keep it for themselves.
As Andrew Jackson said: “(Chief Justice) Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.
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