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Court: Texas Has the Right to De-Fund Planned Parenthood
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to grant an additional hearing to Planned Parenthood regarding Texas’ legislation to end taxpayer funding of abortion companies, including Planned Parenthood.
The decision effectively ends the legal controversy surrounding the law and affirms Texas’ right to stop taxpayer dollars from flowing to abortion providers.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry applauded the decision, saying, “Today’s ruling affirms yet again that in Texas the Women’s Health Program has no obligation to fund Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform or promote abortion. In Texas we choose life, and we will immediately begin defunding all abortion affiliates to honor and uphold that choice.”
This morning the Susan B. Anthony List praised the decision.
“States like Texas have the right to stop taxpayer funding of abortion providers. The Fifth Circuit court’s decision validates this and we applaud Texas for getting taxpayers out of the abortion business,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Abortion-centered organizations like Planned Parenthood neither need nor deserve taxpayer dollars.
Dannenfelser told LifeNews: “Governor Perry, the pro-life Texas state legislature, as well as our friends at Texas Right to Life deserve much praise. Even after the Obama Administration carried out its threat and cut funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program because the state defunded abortion providers, Texas refused to yield. Governor Perry vowed to keep the Women’s Health Program, which serves vulnerable women, fully funded using state dollars. Texas has shown the rest of America what it means to be both pro-woman and pro-life.
Texas Fat Strat
October 27th, 2012
Texas can pretty much function on its own without the bastards in Washington butting into their business.
And, Yea !!! Biblical values win.
Frosteetoes
October 27th, 2012
Way to go Texas!!
Unneutral
October 27th, 2012
Texas has a lot of the right moves.
Most often they lead by example. Kudos
Aunt Liz
October 27th, 2012
(Sigh) I want to move to Texas.
serfer62
October 27th, 2012
I’m conflicted about aboration, against it, but illegal? I don’t know
What is appalling is forcing Christians to pay for it.
IronyCurtain
October 27th, 2012
This is what it will come down to if Obama is re-elected and tries to force feed us his Sharia-inspired transformation to Al-America.
A few brave states will have to have the balls to say, “Oh, yeah? Make us.”
Beaver
October 27th, 2012
Kudos to Texas and to Gov. Perry.
LadyGun12
October 27th, 2012
I did a little fist pump when Washington said they would take away our federal funding, and Rick Perry said, “Fine”.
Come on, Aunt Liz! Love to have you here!
Dismas In Wonderland
October 27th, 2012
Abortion turns our sisters, female friends, wives, daughters, mothers, and any other woman that gets an abortion into murderers!
How is that pro-woman? How has abortion become a moral good in the minds of the demonic leftwing sociopaths who advocate for the murder of the Fetus-Americans.
How did the Warren Burger court come to the conclusion that mothers have a God given right to murder their own offspring? 50 million murdered Fetus-Americans, and no politician has the balls to campaign on overturning the travesty of Roe v. Wade.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
And just in time for the Holidays
bitterclinger
October 27th, 2012
And Holder files with the Supreme Court in 3, 2, 1…
pissedpatriot30
October 27th, 2012
The funding is nothing more than a “reverse” tax, soon to be ruled on by SCOTUS….
SgtZim
October 27th, 2012
I’d like to reserve some seats for the secession please.
God bless Texas!
davey b
October 28th, 2012
“What is appalling is forcing Christians to pay for it.”
indeed… why it’s almost like jizya… making nonmuzloids pay for things that only the muzloids will use..
the electric bill for night time football practice in dearbornistan – footbaths in airports so the muzzies can wash thy’re feet before they pray 5 times a day while the’re driving cabs…tnig is they DON’T do it ANYWHERE ELSE in the world – but the fucking dems are stupid enough to go along
Nutjob
October 28th, 2012
We’ll soon hear the typical liberal “women will die for having back alley abortions and coat hangers excuse” in 3, 2, 1.
Here’s a novel thought, if women go to back alley abortion clinics, how about prosecuting the people performing the illegal procedures without a license….just a thought.
Blacksmith8✡
October 28th, 2012
GOOD News on the Lords Day
Maybe if our fellow good citizens in those other states (you know who you are)
band together, they could rid themselves of the scourge of abortion as well.