Posted on 10/03/2015 1:31:51 PM PDT by Isara
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says that state legislatures and governors now need to “stand up and lead” on defunding Planned Parenthood.
“I encourage every state legislature and every governor to stand up and lead on Planned Parenthood,” the GOP presidential contender said. “Unfortunately, Republican leadership in Washington is unwilling to lead and, indeed, it’s Republican leadership who’s joined with Barack Obama in leading the fight to preserve taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.”
Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Utah, and New Hampshire have moved to eliminate Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood after investigative videos have exposed the organization’s practice of selling the body parts of aborted babies. The Obama administration, however, has threatened action against states that attempt to defund the abortion business.
“The states can make a real difference,” Cruz continued, adding:
I’m proud of my home state of Texas for standing up and leading and I would encourage every state to take the lead in stopping taxpayer funds from going to a private organization – Planned Parenthood – that is currently under multiple investigations for apparently committing a pattern of ongoing felonies of illegally selling the body parts of unborn children.
Cruz headlined an event in New Hampshire, “Practical Federalism: Stand Up and Fight,” hosted by American Principles Project, Cornerstone Action, and The Family Leader, that focused on how far America has moved away from the Constitution over the past century, shifting power away from the states and the people and toward the federal government.
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Cruz is proving very ineffective. Every outrage he opposes he loses at. Bad ideas? No. Since federal funding is the issue, he lost, what can states do?
Hey, where are the rest of presidential candidates?
Yes, where are fellow senators?
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Stand with those fighting for life or kindly keep your petty discouragements to yourself.
Cruz is actually fighting the corruption in the republican party. It is very ingrained and he is not going to win easily but in the long run he will win.
As Planned Parenthood sues, Utah guv stands by order to cut off funding
By ANNIE KNOX | The Salt Lake Tribune connect
First Published Sep 28 2015 10:03AM • Last Updated Oct 01 2015 10:42 am
Lot of the Tokyo rose types think they have found a political savior and don’t want anyone else coming along and doing anything to diminish their faith.
It reminds me of Mike Huckabee trying to God Block Ted Cruz in the Kim Davis case.
Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of Utah sued Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday, saying his order blocking federal funds to the organization is unconstitutional and “is going to result in irreparable harm.”
“We’ll fight back against this unlawful attempt to restrict us,” CEO Karrie Galloway said at a Monday news conference. “Let me be clear: Planned Parenthood has done nothing wrong.”
Peggy Tomsic, a Salt Lake City attorney who fought Utah’s gay marriage ban, is leading the case.
Tomsic said that Herbert’s order unfairly discriminated against the agency and “violated Planned Parenthood’s constitutional rights,” including equal protection and due process granted by the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Herbert’s August directive came in response to the release of secretly recorded videos by an anti-abortion group.
The governor’s office stood by the decision Monday afternoon, reiterating that Herbert “was offended by the actions of Planned Parenthood and the callousness with which they discussed human life” in the recordings purportedly showing national Planned Parenthood officials discussing pay for fetal tissue used for research.
The videos sparked fury from conservative groups, but Planned Parenthood said the recordings were doctored and misleading.
Aimee Edwards, spokeswoman for the governor, said in a statement that “the health of Utahns, especially women, remains a priority for the governor.” Herbert, she added, is working with the state Department of Health and other groups to provide services.
Last year, Planned Parenthood got $272,000 in federal funds. Some of the money went to sexually transmitted disease testing and reporting, and some went to abstinence education.
Now, health officials are considering where to redirect about $120,000 that was set aside for the group. It will likely go to other grant recipients that administer sex-ed and abstinence-education programs, including several county health departments, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake, Centro Hispano in Utah County, the Pregnancy Resource Center of Salt Lake and the National Tongan American Society.
Health department spokesman Tom Hudachko said there is no shortage of details to be worked out in redirecting those funds. “We’ve yet to figure that out,” he said.
Hudachko’s boss, Department of Health Director Joseph Miner, also is named in the suit filed Monday.
Some of the grants his department distributes come with a catch, requiring receiving groups to match the federal award by about 46 cents to each dollar.
In the meantime, Herbert’s order will affect “thousands of women, men, and teenagers and the parents of those teenagers” who rely on the organization for services and education, Tomsic said.
State agencies were ordered in the Aug. 14 directive to discontinue their contracts with Planned Parenthood. A month later, on Sept. 10, the organization received notice that the Utah Department of Health was terminating multi-year contracts to provide after-school programming to at-risk youths and administer STD testing throughout the state.
Planned Parenthood is asking that its Utah programs in question be allowed to continue while the case progresses.
Utah leaders shouldn’t have reacted this way, Tomsic said, adding the order came in reaction to unproven allegations outside of Utah. “It’s not their job to pass judgment on federal funding that has nothing to do with abortion.”
State law bars Planned Parenthood or any organization from using federal or state money for abortions.
A number of states, Texas, New Jersey, Wisconsin defunded PP years ago. I’m sure there are others beyond medicare funding.
Enforce state health laws regarding PP facilities and bring up homicide indictments for post natal dismemberment of the newborn children..
what can states do?
DEFUND any state aid to PP.
“These ratings are based on deeds, not words.”
That’s why I keep sending Ted money, and why I’ll stay at home if we’re so intellectually and morally bankrupt as to give Donald our nomination.
That has got to be the most BS chart I’ve seen. Thanks for the propaganda.
So Cruz fails at every turn and tells everyone its their problem—can’t get the senate to go along with him so he turns to the house and here to the states. Cruz has created his own failures or chose his battles poorly. And I am not saying give up, just focus on some wins. Martyrs are not winners.
Cruz is proving himself a loser. Doesn’t matter if he has the right position in this case as he has failed time and again. Show me one, just one success? Worse, he voted to give Obama fastrack authority on trade, then essentially the same with Iran. Pathetically hypocritical to then criticize the results. We’re not dummies.
Ted Cruz is suppose to be so ineffective, but I keep seeing articles about the possibility of his being the nominee.
In US News and World Report there is an article by Robert Schlesinger entitled “Last Man Standing” which describes a possibility of Cruz being that Man. But he is only getting 6% or less, or maybe a little more. Why would anyone pay any attention to him? It’s a poser.
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