In Texas, Don’t Even Mention Abortion

[spanone]

the asshole governor rick perry called this a 'win' for women...

-------------------------------------------------------------

Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature and Gov. Rick Perry are perfectly willing to endanger the general health and welfare of low-income women to further their agenda of eroding abortion rights. And now, a federal appeals court has given them a green light to do that, at least temporarily.

A federal district judge had placed an injunction on a state regulation that excludes Planned Parenthood affiliates, which do not provide abortions, from receiving state money through the Women’s Health Program pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought by the clinics. But the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted that injunction Tuesday.

It is impossible to overstate the callousness of the state regulation and the harm it will inflict. The program serves more than 100,000 uninsured low-income women, with the federal government paying 90 percent of the roughly $40 million that it costs. The feds are now phasing out support because the rule violates federal law.

The lawsuit against the regulation was brought by nine Planned Parenthood clinics, which operate 49 health centers across the state. These centers provide basic health services like cancer screening, contraceptive care and other services to more than 40 percent of the women in the program. None of these centers offer abortions, since state law has long barred abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving public funds.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/in-texas-dont-even-mention-abortion.html?pagewanted=print

[TexasTowelie]

1. Because we want to party like it's 1899!

The ruling needs to appealed and progressive Texans need to do whatever possible (short of violence) to rid our legislature of the backwards thinking turds that write these stupid bills.