Mon Apr 30, 2012, 01:43 PM

shawn703 (1,713 posts)

Federal judge stops Texas from banning Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds

Source: Washington Post

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Monday stopped Texas from preventing Planned Parenthood from getting state funds through the Women’s Health Program.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin ruled there is sufficient evidence that a law banning Planned Parenthood from the program is unconstitutional. He imposed an injunction against enforcing it until he can hear full arguments.

The law passed last year by the Republican-controlled Legislature forbids state agencies from providing funds to an organization affiliated with abortion providers. Eight Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide abortions sued the state. The clinics say the law unconstitutionally restricts their freedom of speech and association.

“The court is particularly influenced by the potential for immediate loss of access to necessary medical services by several thousand Texas women,” Yeakel wrote in his ruling. “The record before the court at this juncture reflects uncertainty as to the continued viability of the Texas Women’s Health Program.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/federal-judge-stops-texas-from-banning-planned-parenthood-from-receiving-state-funds/2012/04/30/gIQAtmkyrT_story.html

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Federal judge stops Texas from banning Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds (Original post)	shawn703	Apr 2012	OP
Funny how Republicans love their free market, except when they use government	Old and In the Way	Apr 2012	#1
Or when they vote lock step to create and fund the DHS, TSA, Patriot Act, etc...	freshwest	Apr 2012	#3
Totally agree.	Old and In the Way	Apr 2012	#5
The monarchical view often flows from church culture and they are very hard to sway.	freshwest	Apr 2012	#8
This is good, I'm wondering when the 4th will get rid of the T/V ultrasounds...	freshwest	Apr 2012	#2
Thanks for the good news.	freshwest	Apr 2012	#4
So Gov Perry gets the moolah AND be proudly against it. Does this mope think this great state ....	marble falls	Apr 2012	#6
Thank you Judge Yeakel	sakabatou	Apr 2012	#7
CUE THE VONAGE THEME!	rocktivity	Apr 2012	#9
Repugs are getting their asses handed to them on this issue.	Left Coast2020	Apr 2012	#10
K & F'n R!	intheflow	Apr 2012	#11

Response to shawn703 (Original post)

Mon Apr 30, 2012, 01:59 PM

Old and In the Way (36,257 posts)

1. Funny how Republicans love their free market, except when they use government

to apply their political/social values against businesses they don't like.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:07 PM

freshwest (31,556 posts)

3. Or when they vote lock step to create and fund the DHS, TSA, Patriot Act, etc...

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They've ignored'fiscal conservatism' and 'liberty' whenever they're legislating authoritarian measures.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:05 PM

Old and In the Way (36,257 posts)

5. Totally agree.

One only has to look at what Republicans are doing in Michigan to see their vision of One Party rule for this country. But the moron's who vote Republican hate Democrats so much, they are willingly going along with the totalitarian, anti-democratic agenda of the Republican Party.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:42 PM

freshwest (31,556 posts)

8. The monarchical view often flows from church culture and they are very hard to sway.

While I know a number of churched who believe in secular government, and all progressive ideas, and vote Democratic, there are those who fall for the God's Own Party line and have forsaken logic.

I suspect that is what has happened in Michigan and the other states that should be blue. The charter school movement, and the lack of support for Democratic policies in Michigan may be coming from that corner.

They must be approached very carefully to get them to change their minds since they see themselves as some kind of Christlike victims of a godless society, no matter how insane that is, considering how they vote.

Just a thought.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:06 PM

freshwest (31,556 posts)

2. This is good, I'm wondering when the 4th will get rid of the T/V ultrasounds...

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 02:10 PM

freshwest (31,556 posts)

4. Thanks for the good news.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:30 PM

marble falls (1,910 posts)

6. So Gov Perry gets the moolah AND be proudly against it. Does this mope think this great state ....

of Texas is going to allow him not to retire, take all the victory laps he wants to imagine. He is not to get to be Senator. He fought it he whole way knowing what the outcome to be. One cold blooded calculating politician.

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Mon Apr 30, 2012, 03:33 PM

sakabatou (29,105 posts)