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Title: Texas Sues Obama Administration In Abortion Dispute
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Reuters
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/texas-sues-ob ... bortion-dispute-230313230.html
Published: Mar 16, 2012
Author: By Jim Forsyth
Post Date: 2012-03-16 19:50:21 by Murron
Keywords: None
Views: 6667
Comments: 20
Texas Sues Obama Administration In Abortion Dispute SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The Texas attorney general on Friday sued the Obama administration to challenge its decision to shut down a women's health program over a dispute centered on the state's withholding of funds to clinics that provide abortions. The filing of the lawsuit comes as both Republican officials in Texas and the Obama administration have expressed regret that poor women in the state who depend on the health services could be hurt by the escalating political fight. "This is about life and the rule of law, which Texas respects and the Obama administration does not," Texas Governor Rick Perry, a former Republican presidential candidate, said in a statement on Friday. The lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, is against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, and against her agency. The federal suit argues the agency acted illegally and in a manner that was arbitrary and capricious when it decided to terminate funding for the Texas Women's Health Program, which serves more than 100,000 low-income women, due to Texas law that prohibits funding of entities that promote or perform abortions. "(The decision) also violates the Constitution of the United States by seeking to commandeer and coerce the states' lawmaking processes into awarding taxpayer subsidies to elective abortion providers," the lawsuit said. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, one day after the Obama administration's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it would begin shutting down the Texas Women's Health Program. The federal government pays about 90 percent of the cost of the program. The conflict began when the Texas Legislature inserted a "poison pill" into the Medicaid funding bill passed in 2011, which mandates that no funding under the program go to any facility that provides abortion services, even if no state money directly paid for abortions. If the federal government did not agree to the waiver, the language requires that the program be discontinued. Cindy Mann, the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said on Thursday the federal government had no choice but to not renew the program because Texas' denial of funds for abortion restricts the freedom of choice of health providers and is not permitted under federal law. With the decision, Texas became the first state to have its Medicaid Family Planning Demonstration Program canceled by the federal government. The program provides basic medical services, including breast and cervical cancer screening, and birth control, for 130,000 of the state's poorest women. A representative from the Obama administration could not be reached for comment. Rebecca Acuna, a spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party, said in a statement that Perry and Abbott are "wagering women's health in their political game of chicken." Perry on Friday expressed his concern that Texas women should not lose out on health services and repeated his vow made earlier this week to fund those services "with or without the federal government." The Texas attorney general's lawsuit seeks a declaration from a judge that Texas can place restrictions on abortion funding.
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#1. To: Murron (#0)
So who is shutting down the program, Texas or the Obama administration?
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Looks like obomba ... no abortions --- no funding !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
no abortions --- no funding ! Sounds to me like it was Texas presenting the federal government with the ultimatum - forget abortions or we'll shut down the program. This is kinda interesting: ...the Bush administration turned down Texas' same request in 2005, when legislators first approved the law. The state delayed enactment until March 14 of this year. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-sues-federal-government-over-women-s-health-3413484.php What do you think that was about?
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
I wish I could make money being an internet lawyer ! I've got some serious work - bills to pay !
If you ... don't use exclamation points --- you should't be typeing ! Commas - semicolons - question marks are for girlie boys !
The fact that abortion is legal and as a nation we are even having a debate on whether or not to shed innocent blood, tells me this nation is in the crapper. Sorry if I make such bold and obvious statements. Hebrews 9:27 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
W/o even knowing the story I can tell you it's Texicans. They're world is falling apart. They don't even have cheap gas anymore...;} In a debt-based money system, debt must grow in order to create the money needed to pay back (with interest) the money already created by previous acts of magic. The interest paid, over time, consumes an ever greater part of our resources and production until eventually nothing of real value is left. Note that if the music stops, the system collapses.
“they can just close their eyes.”
What we need is another dozen states to take the same step. Now.
The little cute babies that Obama and you love cutting up aren't even the 1 percenters. Most of them are poor and you still want them dead. Jim they aren't the 1 percenters. Please let them live and stick up for the little kids. Why don't democrats like little kids. Are they to busy being sluts like the fluke whore?
So now I cut up babies....;} Most of them are poor and you still want them dead.... They're poor in the womb? That would be from the non existent Pre Natal Care that the Pols eliminated to pay for killing the babies in Iraq/the Afghans and Gaza. You can't have it all, A K. And yes, they are the Bottom 99%. With their fetus, that's poor, because Mom gets no health care. Gotcha. And Please let them live so they can experience abject poverty first hand.... Why don't democrats like little kids. Don't know. Go ask one. Why do men love to rape little girls? And boys? Do you think teen age birth helps with breast cancer later on? And Fluke's my daughter. As proud as I can be....;}
Fifty-eight percent of abortions are performed before eight weeks on embryos, not babies. Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
You don't stick up for little kids, you stick up for embryos. As soon as a baby has a face and a name, you could care less.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Embryos ARE little kids. They're not developing into puppies or jellyfish.
They are babies. If I think liberals are sub human. Does that mean I can get my chainsaw out and cut their heads off? Why not are you a hypocrite?
The irony of someone that supports babies being butchered up into little bloody pieces saying I care less about kids is why people with sense know you are wacked in the head. Did you get run over by a train earlier in life? That could explain it.
Do you support the right to squash bird and alligator eggs?
Do you grieve the death of your potential child each month when it becomes apparent that your wife isn't pregnant?
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Childish insults do not make good argument. You often delete such remarks made by others in here and leave your own. Should I then follow your example and insult you for this above quoted remark? You are not doing the pro life point of view any favors with how you present it.
You really are too far gone on STUPID to turn back if you think a person's choice to slaughter an innocent baby (in or out of the womb) has anything to do with how stone presents his argument against killing babies? Murder is Murder, chump, any way you slice it, and it's an 'individual' choice made by all of us, and it will be JUDGED by God, individually,....not because of the way stone, or anyone, presented it. sheeeeesh....
("Every fetus that DOESN'T go on welfare in 18 years because he/she was aborted yesterday... brings a smile to my face today" ~ GrandIsland - LibertyPost)
What would make you ask such an idiotic, twisted and absurd question? Do you lament not being able to kill a fetus each and every month when it becomes apparent that you are not pregnant? Do you not have a valid argument in favor of the killing of the unborn?
If the federal government did not agree to the waiver, the language requires that the program be discontinued.
#2. To: lucysmom (#1)
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#3. To: BorisY (#2)
Looks like obomba ...
#4. To: lucysmom (#3)
#5. To: Murron (#0)
#6. To: lucysmom (#3)
#7. To: lucysmom (#3)
#8. To: Murron (#0)
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#6)
W/o even knowing the story I can tell you it's Texicans.
#10. To: A K A Stone (#9)
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
The little cute babies that Obama and you love cutting up aren't even the 1 percenters. Most of them are poor and you still want them dead. Jim they aren't the 1 percenters.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Most of them are poor and you still want them dead. Jim they aren't the 1 percenters. Please let them live and stick up for the little kids.
#13. To: lucysmom (#12)
You don't stick up for little kids, you stick up for embryos.
#14. To: lucysmom (#11)
Fifty-eight percent of abortions are performed before eight weeks on embryos, not babies.
#15. To: lucysmom (#12)
You don't stick up for little kids, you stick up for embryos. As soon as a baby has a face and a name, you could care less.
#16. To: lucysmom (#11)
#17. To: A K A Stone (#14)
They are babies. If I think liberals are sub human. Does that mean I can get my chainsaw out and cut their heads off? Why not are you a hypocrite?
#18. To: A K A Stone (#15)
"Did you get run over by a train earlier in life?"
#19. To: Ferret Mike, A K A Stone (#18)
(Edited)
You are not doing the pro life point of view any favors with how you present it.
#20. To: lucysmom (#17)
Do you grieve the death of your potential child each month when it becomes apparent that your wife isn't pregnant?
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