June 21, 2019
Ninth Circuit allows Trump to defund Planned Parenthood
Timothy Birdnow
Good news! A Federal Court has ruled that the Trump Administration can defund Planned Parenthood! Believe it or not!
'From the Epoch Times:
That is the truly astonishing part; the Ninth Circuit, the most liberal appelate court in America, ruled the President has the authority to cut off funding. This is like seeing the Dali Lama firing a machine gun in a war, orseeing the Pope in a gangsta rap video. It's just not something we could ever expect.
For decades Planned Parenthood has suckled at the teat of Uncle Sam while promoting abortion, something that half of the country abhors. They've gotten away with it by claiming they keep their abortion services and other "health" services separate, but the reality is there has never been any sort of wall between the two. It is well past time they lost their Federal dollars.
Of course, they will employ the trick so often used by Progressives; change their name and reapply for funding. ACORN, the vote stealing organization that Obama worked for way back when, is now officially defunct, but they still operate under a new name and new management. It's hard to kick these progressive maggots out of the body politic.
But this is a very good opportunity to at least show we do not support reaching into a woman's womb and chopping up little babies.
Good news! A Federal Court has ruled that the Trump Administration can defund Planned Parenthood! Believe it or not!
'From the Epoch Times:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel of three judges all voted to allow the rules to go into effect even as lawsuits against the administration are underway in multiple court systems. The rules will be put into place by the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency.
"Absent a stay, HHS will be forced to allow taxpayer dollars to be spent in a manner that it has concluded violates the law, as well as the Government’s important policy interest in ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not go to fund or subsidize abortions,†the judges wrote in the ruling (pdf), which was published online by CNN.
The judges wrote that Congress enacted Title X in 1970 to create a limited grant program for certain types of pre-pregnancy family planning services. In 1988, HHS regulations were put into place forbidding clinics receiving Title X funds from providing counseling or referrals for abortion as a method of family planning.
Those regulations were suspended several years later by the department but now the Trump administration is seeking to put them back into place, referring to it as the "Final Rule.â€
"The Final Rule was a reasonable interpretation of†Title X, the judges wrote. It was supported by the Supreme Court decision in Rust v. Sullivan in 1991 that upheld the 1988 regulations, which were crafted by the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
"Absent a stay, HHS will be forced to allow taxpayer dollars to be spent in a manner that it has concluded violates the law, as well as the Government’s important policy interest in ensuring that taxpayer dollars do not go to fund or subsidize abortions,†the judges wrote in the ruling (pdf), which was published online by CNN.
The judges wrote that Congress enacted Title X in 1970 to create a limited grant program for certain types of pre-pregnancy family planning services. In 1988, HHS regulations were put into place forbidding clinics receiving Title X funds from providing counseling or referrals for abortion as a method of family planning.
Those regulations were suspended several years later by the department but now the Trump administration is seeking to put them back into place, referring to it as the "Final Rule.â€
"The Final Rule was a reasonable interpretation of†Title X, the judges wrote. It was supported by the Supreme Court decision in Rust v. Sullivan in 1991 that upheld the 1988 regulations, which were crafted by the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
That is the truly astonishing part; the Ninth Circuit, the most liberal appelate court in America, ruled the President has the authority to cut off funding. This is like seeing the Dali Lama firing a machine gun in a war, orseeing the Pope in a gangsta rap video. It's just not something we could ever expect.
For decades Planned Parenthood has suckled at the teat of Uncle Sam while promoting abortion, something that half of the country abhors. They've gotten away with it by claiming they keep their abortion services and other "health" services separate, but the reality is there has never been any sort of wall between the two. It is well past time they lost their Federal dollars.
Of course, they will employ the trick so often used by Progressives; change their name and reapply for funding. ACORN, the vote stealing organization that Obama worked for way back when, is now officially defunct, but they still operate under a new name and new management. It's hard to kick these progressive maggots out of the body politic.
But this is a very good opportunity to at least show we do not support reaching into a woman's womb and chopping up little babies.
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