Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in abortion fight

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement.

The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act cuts off funding for family planning and health services delivered by Planned Parenthood clinics and other organizations offering abortions.

"By signing this measure into law I stand with the majority of Americans who oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortion," Brewer said in a statement.

Arizona joins six other states with similar laws, officials said. But three of those states -- Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina -- are facing legal challenges.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/05/us-usa-abortion-arizona-idUSBRE84402Y20120505

[MindMover]

1. On a scale of 1 to 10...10 being the worst....

the state of Arizona has to be in the 8..9...10 ...

signing into law such a backward position has got to be a new low for politicians.....

[goclark]

46. Right and now watch other states do it to

It is a PLANNED EFFORT IMO.

Wake up Democrats, they are busy doing evil while we think everything will go our way.

[otohara]

2. If I Had A College Age Daughter

there would be no way in hell I'd send her to any of the states with these draconian abortion laws.

[Ken Burch]

3. Please tell me that this is creating a chance for Dem gains in Az. this fall.

It would be really sickening if the majority of voters there were still down with this shit.

[Downwinder]

5. Perhaps not this fall,but down the road a little bit.

[Suji to Seoul]

6. Nope. Eastern/Central Maricopa County controls Arizona and they know how to play the rubes

in the jerkwater counties like La Paz, Greenlee, Mohave, Pinal and Cochise.

If it weren't for Santa Cruz, Pima, Coconino and (to a lesser extent) Yuma and the West Valley of Phoenix, Arizona would be BRIGHT RED!!!

Remember, they brought us Meachem, Symington, Goldwater, Hull and the current twit, Brewer, as well as Jon Kyl, Russell Pearce and the dick running for Gabby's seat, Jesse Kelly, who had a "shoot at Giffords targets" campaign event in 2010.

[jmowreader]

45. Goldwater would have been drummed out of today's GOP

His comment on gays in the military ("you don't have to be straight to serve, you just have to shoot straight&quot would have done it. All by itself.

And is there any indication that Goldwater thought the only function of government is to cut taxes and eliminate regulations?

[Wait Wut]

10. We're working on it.

If the state Democratic Party wasn't so damned chickenshit, it would help.

[LynneSin]

4. Majority of Americans?

What in her house?

Step out side idiot - you'll see more Americans support a woman's right to choose

[freshwest]

14. +1

[Justice wanted]

7. I NEVER thought a woman would actually do this to her fellow women.

[Wait Wut]

11. She's not a woman.

She's a lizard. You have to catch her reflection in a mirror to see beneath the mask. Although, it's a fairly ineffective mask.

[freshwest]

15. +1,000

[Manifestor_of_Light]

41. Governor Cryptkeeper.

As in the TV show Tales from the Crypt, brought to you by the same people who wrote MAD magazine?

[Ken Burch]

44. So that explains why her victory speech began with the words "Greetings, Kiddies!".

[Ken Burch]

27. Often, right-wing women are far crueler on these issues than men

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[lonestarnot]

40. Are you trying to make me blow chunks before I've had breakfast?

[Ken Burch]

43. Sorry, forgot the "terrifying images" warning.

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I've added it now, so that no one else will have to suffer as you did. Your sacrifice was not in vain.

[lonestarnot]

50. !

[Ken Burch]

51. In fact, I always pictured Sarah Palin as one of the locker room bullies in CARRIE.

You know, the one that insisted on organizing the pig blood thing.

[Odin2005]

31. In East Africa it's women that perform female genital mutilation.

They have internalized the misogyny.

[AlbertCat]

35. In East Africa it's women that perform female genital mutilation.

For god's sake.... don't tell Jan!!!!

[davidpdx]

8. Fucking wackjob governor

If Obama is up this fall the campaign should dump resources into Arizona to flip it just to embarrass Brewer. Not that she shouldn't already be embarrassed. With a face like that you could break a mirror.

[Grassy Knoll]

29. I Heard Mrs. Brewer Has Bruises All Over Her Body.....

..Where Men had touched her with 10 foot polls.

[davidpdx]

30. Now I'm not touching that comment with a 100 foot poll

LOL

[yardwork]

9. The Republicans want to take away ALL government funding that goes to people.

The Republicans are not interested in returning tax monies to the people for the greater good, or to help people in any way. The Republicans are all about taking our tax money and giving it all to corporations, who will kick back a little bit to keep the Republicans in power.

This is nothing less than a war on the people of the United States. It is theft on a grand scale. People are going to have to wake up and take back their government or pretty soon there will be no middle class. There will be no professional class. The country will be wholly owned by the 1% and the rest of us will have very little.

I'm watching every economic gain made by Americans since the New Deal rolled back to worse than it was during the Great Depression.

[freshwest]

16. Yes, it's been their goal since then. Long memories those elephants. (Apologies to real elephants).

[suffragette]

17. + 1,000

Great post yardwork.

[yardwork]

22. Thanks!

[itaest]

33. The GOP ... Government of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Everybody knows that except those who are not among the 1% and vote for the GOP. And the question is how does the GOP manage to brainwash them?

[edcantor]

38. That is a great slogan!

Bumper sticker material.

[randome]

12. Now that it's signed, does this mean a legal challenge is imminent?

[Proletariatprincess]

13. The real issue is allowing politics into women's health care

As long as there are clinics that exclusively provide gyno care to poor and working class women, they will be targets for religion and sectarian politics and the violence that accompanies those forces. Hospitals? Not so much. We know why don't we? Because hospitals must provide care for everyone and, by law, must provide a level of privacy. It is nobody's business why you seek care or treatment for your health....even if you are a women.
To end this debate once and for all, Congress should make a law that requires that every health care provider and hospital which provides gynecological services, must include therapeutic abortion and birth control. This is health, not politics. If a hospital or clinic wants to deliver babies, it must also provide treatment for all gyno services including abortion or find some other area of health care to specialize. No one could be singled out for persecution. But just like the so called War on Drugs, reactionary puritan values are blocking progress and creating misery for people and strife in our society.

[uppityperson]

18. War is Peace. Cut off funding for contraception and health services = Whole Women's Health?

Let me use small words Ms Brewer. If you don't want women to get abortions, give them contraception instead.

[Trillo]

19. Interesting, your Point of View, seems to be

ultimately, Republicans want people who have sex to also have children.

Seems a rather radical-right agenda, to manipulate women's personal lives in such a fashion, while technology allows another course of action, in this case contraception. The children, of course, when they reach adulthood, usually end up being tax-paying units, as are all the rest of us, who once were children ourselves.

They even gave us a coded message (anagram) as Romney ? Rmoney ? R. Money ? Republican Money.

[HockeyMom]

20. When I got my BC pills from PP,

I already HAD children and didn't want more. I had a ring on my finger too. Guess they think married couples don't need BC and will happy for have endless children, and will be able to afford all of them too. On what Planet? Of course a husband will never lose his job, not find another for over year, and already have two little mouths to feed.

[uppityperson]

24. Well, hey. You shouldn't HAVE sex unless you mean to procreate. It boggles the mind.

[AlbertCat]

36. Well, hey. You shouldn't HAVE sex unless you mean to procreate. It boggles the mind.

Especially if you're WHITE!

Can't let those little brown babies outnumber us!

[uppityperson]

23. More like if you have sex, have children. It is a rather radical RW agenda to deny the ability to

not get pregnant because you disagree with abortions.

As for the anagram, oh kay.

[progressivebydesign]

21. So they don't want birth control...

..they don't want abortions, they hate single mothers and blame them for everything. Seems to me that the dirty underbelly of most of these anti-birth control, pro-lifers, is just making sure there is a steady funnel of pregnant young women for the billion dollar adoption industry, run by the very churches that push for this. Seriously, it can really be that smarmy. The church-based adoption industry is in bed with so many pro-life officials like Orren Hatch, that this stuff comes as no surprise. How can they sell the babies of girls convinced that they can't care for their own child, if they allow them abortions and birth control?

[kiranon]

25. Unfortunately, there is much truth in what you say. We adopted 2 children

and refused to use the church based agencies because of how much was charged and because the "rates" sometimes varied by the race of the child. We went through a private adoption attorney.

[Skittles]

34. ?????????

THE RATES VARIED BY THE RACE OF THE CHILD? WTF!!!!!!!!!! That is truly DISGUSTING!!!

[Auntie Bush]

26. But, but, but, there is no war against women!

[Tom Poll Master]

32. Yes, it is the "GOP war against women"!

And as a smart commenter at a CNN site wrote:

The US Republican Party and the Chinese Communist Party are merely opposite sides of the same coin. One forces women to have abortions against their will, the other wants to force women to give birth against their will. Both believe in socializing women's vaginas.

More comments and commentary related to the Arizona law definding Planned Parenthood can be found here.

[nanabugg]

28. You know folks, it will be only pure racism that keeps Obama from winning a second term.

The GOP is counting on it...and they just may pull it off.

[AlbertCat]

37. AZ makes MS look like....

.... Sweden!

[lonestarnot]

39. Had to use that dough for private industrial prison complexers.

Did away with state union protection too. Brewer must be getting paid just like Walker.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

42. Rick Perry got shot down on this exact same issue the other day.

denying funding to PP is unconstitutional. This article in the Washington Post is dated Sat, May 5th, and the ruling came down this past Friday:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/federal-appeals-judge-says-texas-cannot-ban-planned-parenthood-from-receiving-state-funds/2012/05/04/gIQAwhzx1T_story.html

And the Embryo Personhood ballot initiative in Okla-by-God-Homa was struck down by the Oklahoma Supreme Court as unconstitutional on its face.

[Skittles]

49. not to worry

their rightwing hack buddies on the Supreme Court will help them out

[Marrah_G]

47. I find more reasons to never leave the North East with each passing month.

[Skittles]

48. I don't want my tax money paying for senseless war or a heart for that bastard Cheney

but repukes don't give a DAMN about that