Of course. It's God's will that people that can't afford children have more.

Lemme guess: those whacky judicial activists on the federal 5th circuit strike again.

AbbeySomeone: Of course. It's God's will that people that can't afford children have more.

It's the Catholic thing to do

"The appeals court requested a response from Planned Parenthood by 5 p.m. today, said Goodman."

WTF?

gilgigamesh: Lemme guess: those whacky judicial activists on the federal 5th circuit strike again.

And it's the same justice that ordered the administration to explain why the President got uppity with the Supremes over HCR.

Ah yes.

For what its worth, this is the same restrained, deliberate jurist who had a hissy fit over the president's comments about "Obamacare", as he called it, and kept DoJ lawyers on an unrelated case after school to write it on the chalkboard 100 times.

Goddamnitsofarkingmuch.

because affordable health care is for wimps, right guys?

Attorney General Greg Abbott filed an emergency motion for stay last night in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Stephanie Goodman of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and Judge Jerry E. Smith granted it.

A Republican Attorney General, and a judge nominated by Reagan... But don't dare suggest the Republicans have a war on women.

Look, we can't have women getting the idea that they can see a doctor, next they'll want medicine or something. Medicine that could be used on people.

And every taxpayer dime spent on veterinary care is a dime that can't be cut out of a rich person's taxes.

Free association. The law will be struck down.

I am still dumbfounded.

WTF decade are we in again? Seriously? I hate fundies so much.

It's God's will that the poor get no pre-natal care.

they do a lot more at Planned Parenthood than just abortions, morons

Does this really need to move up to the Supreme Court, for something so obvious?

Rapmaster2000: Free association. The law will be struck down.

Alito/Scalia. The law will be upheld.

unlikely: Look, we can't have women getting the idea that they can see a doctor, next they'll want medicine or something. Medicine that could be used on people.

And every taxpayer dime spent on veterinary care is a dime that can't be cut out of a rich person's taxes.

I don't know. Rich people do get bored with constant tax cuts. Could we attack another oil country that's full of brown people, just to keep variety?

Has part of a country ever been forcibly ejected from the rest of its country before?

SecretAgentWoman: I am still dumbfounded.

WTF decade are we in again? Seriously? I hate fundies so much.

Give "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood a read. I think it's the Republican playbook... Restrictions on women, power granted to men, theoretical rules about decorum and behavior in a very rigid society, and yet those who implemented those rules and are theoretically bound to them carouse in debauchery because they're behind the scenes and can get away with it.

someone remind to vote against abbott when silly season starts to end

SecretAgentWoman: I am still dumbfounded.

WTF decade are we in again? Seriously? I hate fundies so much.

Yeah, trying to get in the way of our baby killing. Who do they think they are to tell us it's wrong to practice a little infanticide here and there. After all, it's our children not theirs.

unlikely: Look, we can't have women getting the idea that they can see a doctor, next they'll want medicine or something. Medicine that could be used on people.

And every taxpayer dime spent on veterinary care is a dime that can't be cut out of a rich person's taxes.

Next thing you know they will want to vote or get paid for work! How dare those sluts ^{TM (Rush)}

Santorum's wife lived in sin with an abortionist.

Gosling: Has part of a country ever been forcibly ejected from the rest of its country before?



"Hi. Nathan Fillion here to talk about a serious condition that affects millions of Americans every year: Tex Ass."

Jake Havechek: It's God's will that the poor get no pre-natal care.

they do a lot more at Planned Parenthood than just abortions, morons

But... but... Republicans have assured me that abortions are WELL over 99% of what Planned Parenthood does!

You know, the last time a Federal court made a ruling and the state refused to obey it, President Eisenhower sent in a bunch of soldiers to enforce the decision of the Court.

I wonder if anyone has put that on the table this time around.

Jake Havechek: It's God's will that the poor get no pre-natal care.

they do a lot more at Planned Parenthood than just abortions, morons

To be fair... the headline is wrong. Planned Parenthood isn't being blocked from funding. Abortion providers are, though.

I don't care one way or the other about the issue, but the subby didn't read the article for shiat.

Gosling: Has part of a country ever been forcibly ejected from the rest of its country before?

I don't want to eject Texas from the country - lots of my tax dollars have ended up there in the form of Ft. Hood and oil refineries. I just want the fundies currently IN Texas to go to some lord-of-the-flies utopia, like Somalia.

Jake Havechek: It's God's will that the poor get no pre-natal care.

they do a lot more at Planned Parenthood than just abortions, morons

Yeah, this law states that any clinic who is associated with a clinic who preforms abortions can't get these state/federal funds. Its not "directly" attacking planned parenthood, but is ultimately attacking them. Free association and all that.

Texas? i thought they executed those people?

JDAT: SecretAgentWoman: I am still dumbfounded.

WTF decade are we in again? Seriously? I hate fundies so much.

Yeah, trying to get in the way of our baby killing. Who do they think they are to tell us it's wrong to practice a little infanticide here and there. After all, it's our children not theirs.

If Prince Harry aborted his first son would it be regicide or infanticide?

So, when do they start attacking women's right to vote? I mean that is pretty much the end game of what they are planning isn't it? Or is it something more spectacular like whole sale slaughter of women in the streets?

Thank you GOP for declaring war on women.

Oh, FFS. As a Vagina-American, I'm so glad I don't live in Texas.

Now, I'm not one of those "lawyering types", but if abortion is legal in this country, how can the state prevent an organization that provides abortions from providing other basic medical services? My mind is full of fark

StochasticLife: Thank you GOP for declaring war on POOR women.

ftfy

these silly rules don't apply to rich women.

Rapmaster2000: JDAT: SecretAgentWoman: I am still dumbfounded.

WTF decade are we in again? Seriously? I hate fundies so much.

Yeah, trying to get in the way of our baby killing. Who do they think they are to tell us it's wrong to practice a little infanticide here and there. After all, it's our children not theirs.

If Prince Harry aborted his first son would it be regicide or infanticide?

Infanticide. His son would not be Coronated until after birth.

By "serving" you mean "aborting more children."

Instead of using euphemisms, just say what you really mean.

SecretAgentWoman: "WTF decade are we in again?"

The one where Republicans have realized that indirect attacks on abortion and contraception energize the base just as much as direct attacks, but don't get recognized by their opponents as such and don't generate the same blowback that direct attacks did. (Similarly with indirect attacks on equal-opportunity, voter rights, etc.)

The press is letting them get away with it, so why wouldn't the GOP run with it?

MadMonk: So, when do they start attacking women's right to vote? I mean that is pretty much the end game of what they are planning isn't it? Or is it something more spectacular like whole sale slaughter of women in the streets?

Great, it's "The Screwfly Solution" all over again. Horrifying.

Ugh. This kind of shiat drives me nuts. The people screaming about their tax dollars going to poor people having kids they can't afford to take care of are the same people fighting to make it impossible for those same poor people to have access to any kind of family planning services or comprehensive sex education. It would seem like they shouldn't be able to hold both positions at the same time without their heads exploding until you realize that they just get off on being enormous assholes, then it all makes sense.

DubyaHater: Now, I'm not one of those "lawyering types", but if abortion is legal in this country, how can the state prevent an organization that provides abortions from providing other basic medical services? My mind is full of fark

PP in Texas doesn't even provide abortions, but they will refer you to a place that performs abortions. The government can't ban a funded medical services provider from telling you where to get an abortion anymore than it can ban a welfare recipient from telling you where to get an abortion of a meal at Arby's. This is the most stupidly unconstitutional idea that you wonder why anyone commits the state's resources to defending it in the first place.

You'd have to be an outright moron to waste tax money on this.



Oh, right.

Vermicious Knids: Oh, FFS. As a Vagina-American, I'm so glad I don't live in Texas.

LOL "Vagina-American"

Go have breast cancer or VD somewhere else!



/like the steps of the Texas capital

Everyone Sucks But Me: "Hi. Nathan Fillion here to talk about a serious condition that affects millions of Americans every year: Tex Ass."

You, sir, owe me a new keyboard.

Vermicious Knids: Oh, FFS. As a Vagina-American, I'm so glad I don't live in Texas.

I'm having to suppress my LOL reflex so I don't have to explain my merriment to my co-workers.

Um, don't you have to lose the case to have an appeal and be seen before an Appellate court???

Someone smarter than I want to explain this?

Hey it's Texas. No way we want you to kill that bundle of cells smaller than your finger in YOUR body, but hey, see that black man over there, let's execute him quickly before any real evidence comes to light. Makes perfect sense.

/YEEHAW!
//GIT R DONE!

Vermicious Knids: Oh, FFS. As a Vagina-American, I'm so glad I don't live in Texas.

I like where this thread is taking.

I'm also going to refer to myself as thus from now on.

the real reason they may be fighti9ng it

perry ain't makin money off it

Vermicious Knids: Oh, FFS. As a Vagina-American

Just say Republican

SecretAgentWoman: I am still dumbfounded.

WTF decade are we in again? Seriously? I hate fundies so much.

QFT.