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Texas Judge keeps tap flowing for abortions

Injunction forces Texas to keep giving tax dollars to Planned Parenthood.

A Texas judge has issued an injunction that will keep Texas Planned Parenthood funded, at least for now. The injunction blocks a law that prohibits agencies that provide abortions from receiving public funds. Planned Parenthood says the law would prevent women from getting basic medical care.

Chemicals and procedures that cause death are inconsistent with any modern notion of healthcare.

Chemicals and procedures that cause death are inconsistent with any modern notion of healthcare.

AUSTIN, TX (Catholic Online) - Planned Parenthood is bucking a law that keeps taxpayer dollars out of the hands of institutions that provide abortions. Without the funds, Planned Parenthood says women cannot access other services such as birth control.

US District judge, Lee Yeakel ruled in Planned Parenthood's favor, concerned that women would be cut off from health care. Planned Parenthood used eight clinics that allegedly do not provide abortions to add credibility to the claim.Whether they provide abortion inducing drugs claiming to be birth control is not clear. 

Yeakel wrote in his ruling, "The court is particularly influenced by the potential for immediate loss of access to necessary medical services by several thousand Texas women." 

Of course, the problem is obvious. Allowing women to murder children and to objectify and poison themselves is not exactly the epitome of health. Sadly, the purveyors of abortion have largely succeeded in changing the rhetoric to an Orwellian newspeak where killing is considered synonymous with health care.

The law itself is a brave one, enacted by a largely Republican legislature and signed into law by Governor Rick Perry. Because the law defies the edicts of the Obama administration, his officials have already cut off federal health funding for Texas, despite the fact that Texas taxpayers still pay their due to the government. In the face of the failed federal punishment, Perry promised to make up the needed healthcare funds so that no Texan would be compelled to go without genuine healthcare.

Some state officials were not satisfied however, saying that the new law would increase costs since pregnancies and births would rise and those children would need care paid by the state. At least they're honest -- It's not about life, it's about their money.

The law is expected to come to a full trial and whatever the outcome, it will likely be appealed. 

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Keywords: Texas, Planned Parenthood, funding, abortion, Rick Perry

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1 - 4 of 4 Comments

  1. Rob
    1 year ago

    vance, this judge was appointed by Bush in 2003. I don't thin this judge is legislating from the bench but applying the law. The law on it's face was a risky one. The concern I have about these state laws when it comes to state funding is how do they justify it considering that sadly abortion is legal? I think we'll find that the continue inaction at the federal level is going to undermine all these efforts at the state level. Judicial activism is always defined by whether you are a winner or loser.

  2. techwreck
    1 year ago

    brandi, you overlooked an important qualifier in the article about the 8 clinics which says, "Whether they provide abortion inducing drugs claiming to be birth control is not clear." The article also says, "Planned Parenthood used eight clinics that allegedly do not provide abortions to add credibility to the claim." ... You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to misstate the facts.

  3. Vance
    1 year ago

    This is what happens when we elect Marxist Democrats into office because they appoint Marxist Democrats to court benches. Here again we have the Marxists legislating their morality on the rest of us via judicial appointment. We Catholics can change that this November.

  4. brandi thorfinn
    1 year ago

    Neither federal nor [Texas] state dollars fund abortion.
    Explain your title "Texas judge keeps tap flowing for
    funding abortion."
    The information is about eight PP clinics that do not provide
    abortions. Your article moves from the realm of religion into
    biased politics.

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