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Government to cut Texas women's health funds over abortion
Reuters ^

Posted on 03/14/2012 2:06:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Government to cut Texas women's health funds over abortion

Tue, Mar 13 2012

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The federal government will withdraw funding for a Texas program providing more than 100,000 poor women with birth control and other health services because Planned Parenthood clinics are not allowed to participate, a Health and Human Services spokeswoman said on Friday.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the decision in Houston on Friday, prompting a furious response from Texas Governor Rick Perry, who called it an "egregious federal overreach."

At the heart of the dispute between the administration of President Barack Obama and Texas is the divisive issue of abortion.

The Texas legislature last year voted to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood because the network of women's health clinics performs abortions. The federal government says that this violates rules of Medicaid, the health program for the poor.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: texas
It's the regime's war on women!
1 posted on 03/14/2012 2:06:39 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Yup, Obama declares war on poor women.


2 posted on 03/14/2012 2:12:03 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why does Obama, and fellow prog dems, hate poor women?


3 posted on 03/14/2012 2:19:07 PM PDT by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: Sub-Driver

What the news media would do with this were Obama a republican...


4 posted on 03/14/2012 2:27:22 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Sub-Driver

Not possible. I keep hearing in the MSM that the GOP is having a war on women. It is all the fault of the GOP and some problem with “personal responsibility”. ??


5 posted on 03/14/2012 2:28:03 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: GeronL

I bet the Obama admin will then turn around and blame this on the Republicans.


6 posted on 03/14/2012 2:32:49 PM PDT by elephant
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To: Sub-Driver
And I got this email passed along today. HOW ABOUT THIS FOR OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE BILL!!! JUST WOW!!:,p. WHAT DOES THIS WORD MEAN ?

Check Snopes and Google, but don't stop there, take the time to visit your Library.

Dhimmitude -- What does it mean?

Obama used it in the health care bill.

Now isn't this interesting? It is used in the health care law.

Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting. It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill. I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists.. It is a REAL word.

Word of the Day: Dhimmitude!

Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam.

ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States . Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.

How convenient. So I, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. This is Dhimmitude.

7 posted on 03/14/2012 2:38:11 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (God is watching America. He is judging America. He does not like what He is seeing.)
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To: GeronL
Yup, Obama declares war on poor women.

Replace "obama" with "Bush" and that would be the trumpeted headline and top of the hour new for days.

8 posted on 03/14/2012 2:39:06 PM PDT by jeffc (Prayer. It's freedom of speech.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Sub-Driver.


9 posted on 03/14/2012 2:42:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.)
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To: elephant

They probably already have


10 posted on 03/14/2012 2:56:25 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Sub-Driver
It's the regime's war on women!

This is about women only as it concerns them as voters. This is a war on the unborn. When will we stop using the politically correct terms abortion and "women's rights" when we are talking about legal murder. Murder of the truly innocent. If we call it what it really is there will be more understanding and sympathy for our position.

11 posted on 03/14/2012 3:37:58 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: GeronL

FUBO!

Saw this one coming when Perry did the right thing and cut abortion.

Now we see that the Left really doesn’t care about health care. They truly are pro-abortion.


12 posted on 03/14/2012 3:52:03 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: Sub-Driver

Planned Parenthood is a private entity, correct? If so, then why are the feds worried about how Texas deals with a private organization?


13 posted on 03/14/2012 4:32:32 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: JCBreckenridge
Now we see that the Left really doesn’t care about health care. They truly are pro-abortion.

That has always been their major concern. No one is supposed to care that every right we have is under attack and in danger of being crushed; as long as women don't have to concern themselves with using birth control or otherwise being responsible, freedom is assured.

14 posted on 03/14/2012 4:37:11 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Leep

15 posted on 03/14/2012 8:21:05 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker

BD, that poster is chilling, especially with those corresponding quotes/pics...


16 posted on 03/14/2012 8:43:46 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Gilbo_3

Chilling is not the word for it.


17 posted on 03/14/2012 10:09:35 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

No, matter how many times I see stuff like it makes me ill.


18 posted on 03/15/2012 11:08:07 AM PDT by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: Leep

It sure does.


19 posted on 03/15/2012 11:46:48 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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