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Arizona bans funding to Planned Parenthood in abortion fight
By David Schwartz
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Friday signed into law a bill banning abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from receiving money through the state, her office said in a statement.
The Republican-backed Whole Woman's Health Funding Priority Act cuts off funding for family planning and health services delivered by Planned Parenthood clinics and other organizations offering abortions.
"By signing this measure into law I stand with the majority of Americans who oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortion," Brewer said in a statement.
Arizona joins six other states with similar laws, officials said. But three of those states -- Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina -- are facing legal challenges.
Arizona does not provide tax dollars for abortion, but backers said the law is needed to make sure that no indirect monies are funneled to organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide abortion and other health services. There were no estimates of how much money is involved.
But officials at Planned Parenthood Arizona, the state's largest abortion provider, said the law means that thousands of women in the state may now go without life-saving cancer screenings, birth control and basic health care.
"We are most concerned about the women and men who could be forced to go without health care as a result of this bill," Bryan Howard, Planned Parenthood Arizona's president and CEO, said in a prepared statement.
"We remain committed to providing Arizona communities with the professional, nonjudgmental and confidential health care they have relied on for 78 years," Howard said.
The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List called the bill a "major victory" in its fight to bar funding of abortion providers.
"Abortion-centered businesses like Planned Parenthood do not need or deserve taxpayer dollars," Marilyn Musgrave, vice president of government affairs for the organization, said in a written statement.
While Planned Parenthood suffered a setback in Arizona, it won a temporary battle in court on Friday with Texas. A federal appeals court ruled that the organization could participate in a health program for low-income women in Texas, despite a new state rule there that bans affiliates of abortion providers.
(Editing by Tim Gaynor, Dan Whitcomb, Greg McCune and Lisa Shumaker)


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could it be,, that state tax payers don't want their money paying for abortions??? simple solution,, quit doing abortions,, and they can have funding,, their choice.

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could it be,, that state tax payers don't want their money paying for abortions??? simple solution,, quit doing abortions,, and they can have funding,, their choice.

Abortion is a right, a woman's right. Maybe we can deny state funding to any group that performs prostate exams or testicular cancer treatment? How about that? Reckon we have a right to deny men access to reproductive health care the way cough cough some poster wants to deny women access to reproductive health care?

SO WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ON USING ABORTION AS BIRTH CONTROL ?

does planned parenthood make the decision to abort in a medical emergency ??? I THINK NOT. what goes on between a doctor and his patient is one thing...she can pick up the bill for whatever... i don't want any of my tax money,,used to provide abortions to women who use abortion as an easy way out of a situation they got themselves into... birth control has been around for decades,, and condoms forever.if she doesn't want the child,, give the child to the guy who is the father. he will learn how to use condoms real fast.

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SO WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ON USING ABORTION AS BIRTH CONTROL ?

Me? Personaly, I would never utilize it.

How about, as Obama supported in Illinois, the right to kill any baby that is half way out of the mother, if it had survived a previous abortion attempt?

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In reporting on abortion-rights opponents' criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's opposition as an Illinois state senator to bills seeking to amend the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, the media have promoted numerous myths and falsehoods about Obama and the legislation. In several instances, the media have simply repeated false accusations -- or made the accusations themselves -- that Obama's opposition amounted to support for infanticide. For example, on the August 18 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama "believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion," while right-wing pundit Ann Coulter said that Obama "wants the doctors ... chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed." Further, author Jerome Corsi claimed that "[e]ven if a child was born, he said the woman still had the right to kill the child in an abortion," and Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that Obama's opposition was "enabling infanticide." In fact, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, Obama and other opponents said the bill posed a threat to abortion rights and was unnecessary because, they said, Illinois law already prohibited the conduct supposedly addressed by the bill.


Neither truth nor reality is welcome in the world of some.

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In reporting on abortion-rights opponents' criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's opposition as an Illinois state senator to bills seeking to amend the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, the media have promoted numerous myths and falsehoods about Obama and the legislation. In several instances, the media have simply repeated false accusations -- or made the accusations themselves -- that Obama's opposition amounted to support for infanticide. For example, on the August 18 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama "believes it is proper to kill a baby that has survived an abortion," while right-wing pundit Ann Coulter said that Obama "wants the doctors ... chasing it through the delivery room to make sure it gets killed." Further, author Jerome Corsi claimed that "[e]ven if a child was born, he said the woman still had the right to kill the child in an abortion," and Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that Obama's opposition was "enabling infanticide." In fact, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly noted, Obama and other opponents said the bill posed a threat to abortion rights and was unnecessary because, they said, Illinois law already prohibited the conduct supposedly addressed by the bill.


Neither truth nor reality is welcome in the world of some.

http://www.thepoliticalguide.c...bama/views/Abortion/

Media Matters is the last place that you should go for 'truth'. They only offer spin for the left, and out of context or false reporting of opponents...
What you just posted was Obama's excuse for being the ONLY Illinois senator to not support legislation that would prevent doctors from leaving newborns unattended to die after birth, because they did not die in a previous abortion attempt. This practice WAS HAPPENING AT THE TIME that this legislation was introduced. Obama was simply lying when he said that there were already protections for these children...

This is the truth, and this is the reality. Once again, Limbaugh is right. Please don't allow Media Matters to embarrass you again!

Ok. I'm sure you can offer definative proof then that The prez is all about killing half born infants.

Go ahead. Sock it to me.

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Ok. I'm sure you can offer definative proof then that The prez is all about killing half born infants.

Go ahrad. Sock it to me.

See above ^^^

Proof.

he doesn't need any.

They know Obama didn't vote yes to this. And, they generaly subscribe to the "Your either with us or agin us" line of thinking.

It would be sort of like if you were a member of the Oklahooma State Legislature and Senator Ralph Shortey called for a vote disalowing the use of aborted fetuses in out food supply and you refused to be a part of his insanity. Those who think Like Kenny would immediately be convinced you wanted aborted fetuses in the food supply.

yeppers... of course!!

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SO WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ON USING ABORTION AS BIRTH CONTROL ?

Me? Personaly, I would never utilize it.

LOL