Question of the day: Why does Barack Obama hate Texas women?
Three weeks ago, Tina Korbe wrote:
Does Obama want to actually cut funding and potentially jeopardize the
Texas Women's Health program, which might not be able to survive without federal funding? That sends the message that Obama cares less that women have access to health care than that they receive health care from certain providers -- namely, providers that also offer abortions.
Either Rick Perry just called Obama's bluff or this is about to be an interesting issue.
Over to you, Cap'n Interesting:
Cindy Mann, the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, said on Thursday the federal government had no choice but to
discontinue the program because Texas' denial of funds for abortion
restricts the freedom of choice of health providers and is not permitted
under federal law.With the decision, Texas became the first state to have its Medicaid
Family Planning Demonstration Program canceled by the federal
government. The program provides basic medical services, including
breast and cervical cancer screening, and birth control, for 130,000 of
the state's poorest women.
Natch; because, as we're all supposed to have been re-educated to regugitate by rote on command from our tin god by now, a woman's health begins and ends with her ABSOLUTE CONS-TIT-UTIONAL RIGHT to commit mass infanticide. Who cares if she's denied ACTUAL medical services, or mammograms, or cervical cancer screenings? Who cares if all those abortions drastically increase the risk of breast cancer, as has been well documented? The Mengeles at Planned Parenthood are ENTITLED to all those fetal cold cuts for their upcoming eugenicist summer picnics, dammit, no matter how many Texas women the Obama regime has to kill with its extremist, bloodthirsty policy quackery.
Not that chivalry is expiring quietly, or without a ten-gallon fight:
The Texas attorney general on Friday sued the Obama administration to
challenge its decision to shut down a women's health program over a
dispute centered on the state's withholding of funds to clinics that
provide abortions...."This is about life and the rule of law, which Texas respects and the
Obama administration does not," Texas Governor Rick Perry, a former
Republican presidential candidate, said in a statement on Friday.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican, filed suit against
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the
agency.The federal suit argues the agency acted illegally when it decided to
terminate funding for the Texas Women's Health Program, which serves
more than 100,000 low-income women, due to Texas law that prohibits
funding of entities that promote or perform abortions."(The decision) also violates the Constitution of the United States
by seeking to commandeer and coerce the states' lawmaking processes into awarding taxpayer subsidies to elective abortion providers," the
lawsuit said.
"But wait," you might be thinking, "False Messiah will never carry Texas anyway, so he's free from any politicoelectoral considerations to get in the way of letting his radicalism run wild." And you'd be right about that.
But what about in a state he actually carried last time and can't win re-election without this time?
Believe it or not, re-election remains in the, um, backseat when the allegience of the Lavender Lobby is at stake
Barack Obama took a stand Friday against a proposed constitutional
ban on same-sex marriage in North Carolina, a state he won in 2008 that
remains crucial to his re-election hopes."While the president does not weigh in on every single ballot measure
in every state, the record is clear that the president has long opposed
divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to
same-sex couples," said Cameron French, the Obama campaign's North
Carolina spokesman, in a statement. "That's what the North Carolina
ballot initiative would do -- it would single out and discriminate
against committed gay and lesbian couples -- and that's why the president does not support it."
Translation: The One is writing off North Carolina and its fifteen electoral votes because he needs the cash and energy of his lunatic base more than ever in the dwindling number of competitive swing states he's got left.
At this rate, even Santorum's and Gingrich's efforts might not be enough to save the Obamidency.
But at least he'll have a lifetime supply of fetal cold cuts to go with all those chili half-smokes.
[cross-posted @ Hard Starboard]
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