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Texas Judge keeps tap flowing for abortions
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
May 1st, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
May 1st, 2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
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.
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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