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Brewer Cuts Off Planned Parenthood Funding in Arizona

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Posted on May 5, 2012
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law Friday that eliminates Planned Parenthood’s access to taxpayer money that is funneled through the state for non-abortion services, saying that any funds sent to the organization could indirectly be used to pay for abortions.

In Texas this week, a federal appeals court prevented the state from enforcing a rule that would deprive groups associated with Planned Parenthood of access to money in a state-funded women’s health program. —ARK

AP via The Huffington Post:

Planned Parenthood Arizona claims a funding ban would interrupt its preventive health care and family planning services for nearly 20,000 women served by the organization’s clinics. The organization says it will consider a legal challenge.

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Mona's avatar

By Mona, May 9, 2012 at 10:15 pm Link to this comment

you know, heterochromatic,

Republicans like Jan Brewer were happy to have people strolling across the Arizona border by the millions to work for them as long as they didn’t ask for any rights.

This is just another example of Republicans like Jan unable to bear the idea of individuals under the Constitution having rights. [shudder]

Republicans like Jan don’t want the people of their state having the right to vote.  If most of the people in her state, who have been there a long, long time (and Jan knows it) started to vote, Republicans like Jan would no longer have the white minority Arizona government reminiscent of South Africa.

Our immigration system is broken and needs a lot of reform.  There’s a prison industrial complex making billions of dollars per year right now putting migrants in prison, fueling racism campaigns to pass anti-immigrant copycat laws that will keep their bucks rolling in, and pay for Republicans to get into office.

That’s about all your so-called laws mean.

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 5:05 pm Link to this comment

Why am I the only person posting on truthdig today who is neither insane, nor mentally challenged?

Rhetorical question.

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By heterochromatic, May 7, 2012 at 3:15 pm Link to this comment

of course, Chavez hasn’t said that he can cure cancer.  He’s only claimed that
cancer is caused by secret American processes….. and he’s intelligent!!!!!!!

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 1:34 pm Link to this comment

1.  The thugs that guard your employer apparently thought that prostitutes in latin American did not charge—or at least not gringo thugs.

2.  Paradise and cancer treatment technology are now inextricably entwined?  Gauguin sure didn’t think that when he painted his tropical paradise.

3.  And if you can show me where Chavez has claimed to cure diseases on t.v. I’ll eat the source.  That claim has been made for many years, however, by gringo t.v. evangelist preachers—Oral Roberts comes to mind—and they used and still use that claim to bilk money from the gullible gringo viewers like you.

4.  Chavez is not a gringo.  He is intelligent.  Again, a use of set theory in analysis, as the set of intelligent people clearly doesn’t include gringos.

5.  Considering that the CIA had about 40 plots over the years that I am aware of (and that imñplies many more that I didn’t know about) to try to give Fidel Castro a terminal illness, what Chavez said in reference to the CIA trying to give the leftist leaders cancer might only NOT be true if they couldn’t figure out a way to do so—not for lack of trying to do so.  And that is not an example of Chavez claiming to cure illnesses on t.v.

I believe we’re done here.  I simply cannot be bothered to spar antagonists as unskilled and as dumb as you have become.  Must be something in the water.  Or an FBI plot gone awry, that’s turned you into a blithering cretin.

Apologies to cretins everywhere—you deserve better spokespeople.

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By heterochromatic, May 7, 2012 at 1:14 pm Link to this comment

honey, i’ve never sought the services of a prostitute and you’ll have to seek
business elsewhere…...

Thanks for correcting my impression that the dictatorship in Venezuela hasn’t
resulted in paradise on Earth and that dressing shit up in red and ranting on the
radio doesn’t cure disease.

Dressing in red also doesn’t cure idiocy….....

———

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United
States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after
Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the
disease.


“It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer
and nobody knew about it until now ... I don’t know. I’m just reflecting,” he said
in a televised speech to troops at a military base.

“But this is very, very, very strange ... it’s a bit difficult to explain this, to reason
it, including using the law of probabilities.”


http://tinyurl.com/redidjut

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 1:02 pm Link to this comment

And the racist no-neck raves again.

Some poor Mexicans do go to Caracas to have cataracts removed, as if they sign up for that program it’s free and the Venezuelan government pays for their transportation and lodging there.  Those who are under the delusion of being middle class are not eligible for that program.

But for cancer treatment, Chavez goes to Cuba—which should tell even a die-hard dummy like you SOMETHING.

Rich Venezuelans usually go to Miami for medical treatment—so that they can combine it with shopping.

Any more Latin American habits you’d like to know about.

Here’s one gratis:  The prostitutes CHARGE.  Apparently you gringos believe otherwise.

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By heterochromatic, May 7, 2012 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment

aren’t all Mexicans flying to Caracas for their cancer treatments?

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 12:35 pm Link to this comment

No-neck:

1.  I don’t go to Mexican hospitals.  The only time I was actually treated there was when I went once in an emergency at 4 a.m. on a Sunday in 1994 and apparently that’s a time no one else goes.  I am treated by a specialist in Chinese medicine and homeopathy—same as I was treated in the US.  He’s good and he is not all that expensive, although his fee for a treatment plus homepathic meds recently went up to 400 pesos (just over 30 dollars).  Obviously, the folks living on a dollar a day here are not going to him.  And where I live there are no “other foreigners” anymore (there used to be a couple of gringos hiding out from arrest warrants for not paying child support in LA, but they have been gone for years).

2.  Folks who want to get an APPOINTMENT—not treatment—get up in order to arrive at 6 a.m. to wait and maybe they’ll get an appointment for that day IF and only IF they are employed and they and their employer pay into the IMSS or ISSSTE.  And they may get the appointment for that day—not to receive treatment—but to receive a slip of paper that says they are sick and can’t work for 3 days.  If you are not employed in a real job you can do the get up and wait routine for several days.  Folks die in the waiting rooms all the time.  And PRIVATE Mexican hospitals are not a hell of a lot better.  Why do you think the rich Mexicans are all treated in hospitals in Houston and San Antonio?

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By heterochromatic, May 7, 2012 at 12:20 pm Link to this comment

if all the Mexicans in Mexican hospitals are waiting for treatment, who’s being
treated?

Are you suggesting that it’s only yourself and other foreigners being tended to?

How sad.

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 12:12 pm Link to this comment

heterochromatic no-neck ttroll.

Here’s where never having been south of the RGio Bravo really discredits the bullshit you post.

Mexican hospitals are not filled with Mexicans receiving treatment.

You’ve never set foot in one or you would know that they are filled with Mexicans WAITING to receive treatment.

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 12:10 pm Link to this comment

Surfboy:

Maybe, maybe not.  We’d have to see.

As for those Wal-Marts, and the 24 million dollars of bribes that were paid to put them practically on top of the pyramids in Teotihuacan, the first step would be to demolish every damned one of them—or else boot out Wal-Mart and turn them into public hospitals and free childcare centers with back doors so that 50 children at a crack are not impunely incinerated because the place belongs to the president’s wife’s cousin!

Auschwitz had noithing on the militants of the PAN.

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By heterochromatic, May 7, 2012 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment

Surfboy—- after decoding, I guess that you’re saying that Mexicans are sneaking
into the US just because the Mexican government doesn’t let them into Mexico’s
hospitalls.

This seems to be a very odd claim as there are hospitals in Mexico just filled with
Mexicans receiving treatment and there’s a good hospital in every fair-sized city in
Mexico.

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By americanme, May 7, 2012 at 11:32 am Link to this comment

Nobody in Mexico wants Arizona and Texas unless the rednecks are booted out to someplace else.  We might consider accepting New Mexico, though.

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By stand to reason, May 7, 2012 at 11:28 am Link to this comment
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It isn’t that there is no money for the planned parenthood, it
more about shifting that money to brewers followers. After all,
those followers allow this cretin to presume a mandate of
TELLING others what to do. Seems az is ate up with these kind of
charlatans.

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By heterochromatic, May 7, 2012 at 10:42 am Link to this comment

no. we rejected that idea long ago

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By bramdruckman, May 7, 2012 at 10:07 am Link to this comment

I may be in the minority on this but will anyone join me starting a campaign to
partition Arizona from the United States and let them form their own country with
their own laws, currency and socio/politico beliefs? Also, since they are now
requiring ‘papers’ to be carried when in Arizona proving one’s place of birth,
Arizonans would, in the future, in turn, be required to carry passports and obtain
visas to enter the US. No big deal. We require those from many foreign visitors
now, so let’s let Arizona split from our nation now and form their own republic.

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By Marian Griffith, May 7, 2012 at 2:07 am Link to this comment
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@ReadingJones
—-I think we should give Arizona and Texas back to Mexico for a wide array of reasons—-

What has Mexico done to deserve this?


@Heterochromatic
—-right after we give Mexico back to Spain.—-

Surely Spain does deserve to be further punished than it is already done (by the bankers).

(p.s. not to mention that no matter how bad it has become not even the USA government believes it has the power to ‘give away’ independent foreign countries. At least not until after they invaded them and bombed them back to the stone age).

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By heterochromatic, May 6, 2012 at 7:58 pm Link to this comment

great point Mona. if nothing was illegal, we would have much better , hangup-free
elections and shit.

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By Mona, May 6, 2012 at 7:56 pm Link to this comment

If Americans got over their hang-ups about legalization, most of Arizona residents would be able to vote, and we would see the end of governors there like Jan Brewer.

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By heterochromatic, May 6, 2012 at 7:53 pm Link to this comment

right after we give Mexico back to Spain.

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By ReadingJones, May 6, 2012 at 7:37 pm Link to this comment

I think we should give Arizona and Texas back to Mexico
for a wide array of reasons.

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By heterochromatic, May 6, 2012 at 6:54 pm Link to this comment

perfect logic, Arizona-style… the people of the state
shouldn’t finance non-abortions.

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By Rodney, May 6, 2012 at 5:26 pm Link to this comment
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The real war is the war against white women. Their
goal is to destroy planned parenthood in order to
prevent white women from having access to abortions
and birth control pills in hope that more white
children will be born. In states like Arizona Texas
and Florida the white population is dwindling. In
less than 20 years those states will no longer have a
majority white population and they will lose
political power. Their goal is to keep a majority
white population as long as possible. The way they
are trying to do that is to make it as difficult as
possible for minorities to vote while restricting
white women’s access to abortions and birth control.

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By americanme, May 6, 2012 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment

Ah, that scraggly old hag is at it again.

How stupid, though—this way she’s saying that more folks of Mexican heritage will be born in Arizona—just when she’s trying to get rid of them.

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By Blueokie, May 5, 2012 at 8:47 pm Link to this comment

As a resident of Oklahoma, I can especially appreciate Arizona’s willingness to try to further the mantle of cognitive disconnect between the bat-shit crazy red states full of ‘challenged’ white people and empirical reality.

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By THX 1133 is not in the movie..., May 5, 2012 at 4:42 pm Link to this comment

Republicans are amazing; they even get their women to
join their “war on women”.
I’d call them Neanderthals but I’m not sure
Neanderthals deserve that slight…
Knuckle draggers for sure though…

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