U.S. appeals court allows Texas to exclude Planned Parenthood

[gratuitous]

6. Battle of the temporary stays, I think

The District Court Judge stayed Texas's exclusion, and an emergency petition to the Fifth Circuit just happened to land on the desk of a Circuit Court Judge who bought the State's rather spurious argument that the denial of funds for women's health is supposed to reduce the number of abortions. So, the potential abortion counts for more than the actual dying of women.

There was a rather unintendedly humorous passage in the story:

A spokeswoman for Texas Governor Rick Perry said the state will defend Texas law.

"Texas has a long history of protecting life (of the unborn)," spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in a statement.

I note that the reporter had to add the parenthetical, so that foreigners outside the great State of Texas wouldn't get confused by the nonsensical statement that Texas protects life.