Sunday, August 23, 2015

Stupid is, as stupid does,,,

So in Texas, it’s not enough to deny funding for abortions. If your facility performs abortions, Texas won’t give you money for anything. In fact, that is already state law. This budget provision goes further, in that now, it’s not enough that you don’t perform abortions in your facility. If you are associated with an organization that provides abortion services, you can’t get the cancer screening money.

Planned Parenthood Out of Cancer Screening Program
As part of the GOP's ongoing fight against Planned Parenthood, poor, uninsured women in Texas will soon be unable to obtain government-subsidized breast and cervical cancer screenings at the organization's clinics.

In an effort to boot Planned Parenthood from the joint state-federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Services program, Texas lawmakers wrote a provision into the state budget to prohibit clinics affiliated with abortion providers from receiving taxpayer funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings. That state budget takes effect Sept. 1.
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The 17 Planned Parenthood clinics participating in the Breast and Cervical Cancer Services program, or BCCS, were already prohibited by state law from performing abortions if they accepted taxpayer dollars. Planned Parenthood officials had said the budget rider was part of Republicans' efforts to put the organization out of business in the state.
Jeb Bush wants to move Planned Parenthood funding to abstinence-only health organizations
Former Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wants to defund Planned Parenthood, just like almost every other Republican. But Bush has ideas for where the current funding should go.

Bush Tweeted, “we absolutely have to defund PP and redirect those funds to other women’s health orgs.”

But what organizations would Bush be willing to redirect these funds to? Well, for starters, they would have to be abstinence-only women’s health centers and ones that do not perform abortions.

Daily Kos reported that as governor of Florida, Bush was keen to redirect these funds to religiously-motivated organizations which did not offer any type of family planning services such as birth control.

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