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Title: Obama Pushes Last-Minute Rule FORCING States to Fund Planned Parenthood
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Published: Dec 19, 2016
Author: aa
Post Date: 2016-12-19 08:16:49 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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The latest “achievement” to go down in Barack’s “legacy?” A rule conceived and passed in the eleventh hour which forces states to keep funneling money to abortionists…

The Obama administration has finalized a rule to stop states from withdrawing federal money from Planned Parenthood and other health clinics that provide abortions.

Under the rule, states are legally required to distribute federal funds… Republicans in Congress have repeatedly threatened to cut off Planned Parenthood clinics and in September dozens of conservative states backed proposals to defund the service, prompting the Obama administration to introduce the proposals.

The protections are due to take effect two days before Donald Trump takes office.

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#16. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0) (Edited)
The latest “achievement” to go down in Barack’s “legacy?” A rule conceived and passed in the eleventh hour which forces states to keep funneling money to abortionists…
The Obama administration has finalized a rule to stop states from withdrawing federal money from Planned Parenthood and other health clinics that provide abortions.
Under the rule, states are legally required to distribute federal funds… Republicans in Congress have repeatedly threatened to cut off Planned Parenthood clinics and in September dozens of conservative states backed proposals to defund the service, prompting the Obama administration to introduce the proposals.
The protections are due to take effect two days before Donald Trump takes office.
http://louderwithcrowder.com/obama-state-fund-planned-parenthood/

That source references independent.co.uk ... barack-obama-abortion-funding-planned-parenthood ...
The independent.co.uk site reports:

The protections are due to take effect two days before Donald Trump takes office.
Under the rule, states are legally required to distribute federal funds for services related to contraception, fertility, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections and breast and cervical cancer screening — regardless of whether they also perform abortions.
Federal rules already prevent the healthcare provider from spending any of the government funding – around $70m (£59m) – on abortions.
in September dozens of conservative states backed proposals to defund the service, prompting the Obama administration to introduce the proposals.
Mr Trump has previously praised Planned Parenthood, acknowledging that it “helps millions and millions of women” who go to it for health services such as breast cancer screening.

However, Planned Parenthood does not provide mammogram screenings, as many mistakenly presume. It refers its clients elsewhere for those. Reference: Post #1 of 4um Title: The moral terrorism of Planned Parenthood
That being said, the Democrat Party Platform was changed for the 2016 Presidential election to target the Hyde Amendment for repeal, which “prohibits the use of federal funds for any health benefits coverage that includes abortion.” Reference: Rep. Smith: Most Obamacare Plans Violate Hyde Amendment - cnsnews.com November 21, 2014
Clinton campaigned for the Hyde Amendment to be repealed; to use taxpayer funded Medicaid to pay for abortions. This is a 2001 example of US taxpayers being coerced to provide abortion funding internationally too:
This is Google's cache of: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/
human-life-and-dignity/abortion/support-for-the-hyde-smith-motion.cfm.
It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Dec 1, 2016 09:39:41 GMT.
Excerpts:

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Letter to Congress on the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (H.R. 1646)
May 7, 2001
Dear Member of Congress:
The Foreign Relations Authorization Act for fiscal years 2002 and 2003 (H.R. 1646) will soon come to the House floor. I urge you to support Representative Henry Hyde and Chris Smith's motion to strike the Lee amendment from this bill.
The effect of the Hyde/Smith motion will be to retain the "Mexico City" policy reinstated by President Bush. The Lee amendment reverses the policy, by allowing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to receive U.S. funds so long as any harmful "medical" practices they promote cannot be shown to violate the host country's law or U.S. federal law.
Our foreign aid programs should not subsidize organizations that perform and promote abortions in developing nations under the guise of "family planning." Poor women in developing nations need adequate education, food, housing, and medicine for themselves and their children, so they can lead lives of full human dignity. The Mexico City policy prevents the United States from exporting and encouraging a culture of death as a supposed answer to these needs. I urge you to reject the Lee amendment. Instead, our government should respond directly to the real needs of poor women through a comprehensive poverty alleviation program and greatly increased development assistance.

Ironically, the Catholic sector has recently been compounding the econcomic duress of American females and families by clamoring for America's distressed economy to absorb not only multitudes of illegal migrants but waves of other dependents under the misattributed moniker of "refugees". Unemployment, under-employment, insufficient wages, Minimum Wage hikes which increase prices while obliterating middle class workers by withholding comparable Cost of Living increases for them, the Visa importations of foreign laborers into our workforce -- all such conditions (et al.) of Poverty/Impoverishment here are very large factors in American females resorting to abortion because they don't think they can adequately provide for a child financially. Catholic promotions of "humanitarian" foreign influxes are contradicting and undermining their stance against Abortion. Ergo, I'm imploring them, as well as the Pope, to rethink these issues and refrain from inadvertently facilitating the scourge of Abortion so.
Will try to append some more sources when I can about the complexities, nationally and internationally, of this topic's rule maneuver.

GreyLmist posted on 2016-12-22 15:38:03 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#17. To: All (#16) (Edited)
Prenatal care is reproductive health care. That includes sonograms but Planned Parenthood doesn't really provide those, other than as a preview for the Abortionists to extract fetuses/fetal body parts/organs/tissues most advantageously/marketably for its "procurers" and the like. STD testing, contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy and mammomgrams are categorized as reproductive health care but Planned Parenthood doesn't provide mammograms -- just referrals elsewhere. Elective Abortion except to save the life of the mother is not reproductive health care. This is evidenced but facts like Planned Parenthood and other Abortion "providers" not concerning themselves with assistance for Post-Abortive after-effects to help prevent suicides from remorse. They don't even want to be required to operate in buildings up to code standards. Nor do they want to be required to provide doctors for the procedure with hospital admitting qualifications in case of emergency: Doctors Work to Regroup after Texas Abortion Law Struck Down - NBC News, JUN 27 2016

GreyLmist posted on 2016-12-22 17:41:58 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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Doctors Work to Regroup after Texas Abortion Law Struck Down - NBC News, JUN 27 2016

More recently in Ohio, the "Heartbeat Law" was passed to prevent abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detectable (at or near six weeks) but it was struck down/vetoed by .Gov Kasich. This is an example of the ethics issues being sidelined and a veto spun as "fiscal responsibility" by Guest Columnist, David S. Cohen:
If he signs heartbeat bill, Ohio Gov. Kasich might as well write the big check he'll soon owe the pro-choice side: David S. Cohen (Opinion), cleveland.com December 09, 2016
Annotated excerpts:

the bill .. will be a direct transfer of money from the state of Ohio to the pro-choice movement. If this is what the citizens of Ohio want, then Gov. John Kasich should go ahead and sign it . . . and then start writing the check immediately afterwards. But, if Ohio citizens want fiscal responsibility and would rather not throw money away unnecessarily, he should veto the bill.
When someone challenges a law in federal court as a violation of constitutional rights and wins, federal law requires the state that passed that law to pay the winning party's costs and attorneys fees. For a case like this one, this can add up to a substantial sum of money.
For instance, this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court found that two abortion restrictions in Texas were unconstitutional. Because the state lost the case, Texas is now on the hook for about $4.5 million.
Three years ago, North Dakota passed a law very similar to the bill that is now on Gov. Kasich's desk awaiting signature. After losing in the lower courts and being denied review by the Supreme Court, the state had to pay almost $250,000 to the lawyers for the lone abortion clinic in the state.

Ohio Gov. Kasich signs Pain-Capable bill, vetoes “Heartbeat” bill
By Dave Andrusko December 13, 2016
Excerpts:

Ohio Gov. John Kasich today signed SB 127, called the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act [to prevent abortions at 20 weeks/5 months]. His signature raises to 15 the number of states that protect unborn babies capable of experiencing pain from the excruciating agony of abortion.
Such a law is already on the books in 14 states-- Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Gov. Kasich vetoed H.B. 493, commonly known as the Heartbeat Bill. H.B. 493 would ban abortions once the baby’s heartbeat is detected.
According to the Associated Press

Kasich said the heartbeat provision would have been struck down based on federal court rulings on similar measures elsewhere. Enacting the law would also invite challenges to current Ohio abortion prohibitions and would mean costly litigation.
“The State of Ohio will be the losing party in that lawsuit and, as the losing party, the State of Ohio will be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to cover the legal fees for the pro-choice activists’ lawyers,” [clairvoyant?] Kasich said.
“Therefore, this veto is in the public interest,” [he] said.

With regard to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Public radio station WVXU quoted former Ohio Supreme Court Justice and current Republican house member Bob Cupp, who said there are no questions about its constitutionality. “In my judgment, it is not improbable that the U.S. Supreme Court will, in fact, uphold the 20 week limitations on abortions once it gets the case.”

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