From this FB group:
My friend Kelsey Hazzard made this. Sadly, it perfectly depicts the reasoning behind the Obama administration’s decision to pull the Medicaid Women’s Health Program from Texas- solely to punish the Texas government for revoking funds from Planned Parenthood. But who will pay the price? 130,000 low-income women and families. Where do the Obama administration’s priorities REALLY lie?
If you’re in Texas (and especially if you or a loved one is part of this program), this is important to know and understand. Click here for more information.Article excerpt:
Texas decided to bar the Women’s Health Program funding from abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, in May of last year. Almost immediately, the Obama administration threatened to pull that portion of Medicaid funds from Texas if funding wasn’t reinstated for the abortion giant. Texas refused, and in turn, the Obama administration decided last week to yank the annual $40,000,000 Texas received for its Medicaid program, beginning in March. This also results in another $17,000,000 loss to Planned Parenthood of Texas.
Obama showed his true agenda by pulling that program’s funding from Texas. He would rather have thousands of low-income women and families struggling to obtain health care rather than see funding pulled and reallocated from the largest abortion-committing organization in the nation.
“We hope [the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] will reverse its position and allow the program to continue,” said Stephanie Goodman, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.
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Well, it WOULD be consistent with legal abortion…
^THIS. This is where concluding that a fetus has no moral worth gets you. Next step: legalized infanticide!
This whole idea that supporting the use of contraception or abortion is somehow in line with women’s rights just doesn’t make sense to me. It says, look, men can have sex without getting pregnant, so in order to be equal in society to men, women also need to be able to have sex without getting pregnant. Women need to change to be more like men in order to be equal? How is that at all overcoming sexism? How about working to get equal rights and opportunities while celebrating the differences between men and women? I’m not naive; I get that women often get shafted out of opportunities when they get pregnant, but the solution is to demand equal responsibility from the father, not zero responsibility from either. Sure, it’s a harder battle, but since when do we find it acceptable to take the easy way out?
It just seems like the birth control movement being equated with overcoming sexism is like saying that in order to overcome white supremacy, we should make everyone have white skin.
This so-called “accommodation” changes nothing of moral substance and fails to remove the assault on religious liberty and the rights of conscience which gave rise to the controversy. It is certainly no compromise. The reason for the original bipartisan uproar was the administration’s insistence that religious employers, be they institutions or individuals, provide insurance that covered services they regard as gravely immoral and unjust. Under the new rule, the government still coerces religious institutions and individuals to purchase insurance policies that include the very same services…
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Just look at that long and beautiful list of signatures. Everybody from UC San Diego to Harvard to Notre Dame, Protestants, Catholics, and everybody alike, are protesting this gross attack on religious freedom.
This is absolutely amazing. And I know four people personally that have signed this!
“THAT BITCH!”
Everyone looked aghast, but we all knew exactly who he was talking about.
“She’s just taken one of my biscuits!” Harrison explained. He wasn’t the least bit sheepish, either. As far as he was concerned, those biscuits were his property and no one was allowed to go near them. Lennon began shouting back at him, but there was little he could say to defend his wife (who was happily munching away in the studio), because he shared exactly the same attitude towards food.” —
Geoff Emerick, “Here, There and Everywhere” (via yousayyouwantarevoloution)
