Texas' Abortion Restrictions Will Go Into Full Effect After All

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Where is PP with real data. Like complication rates from abortions, like complication rates for non-clinic abortions, back room rates based on distance from clinic, etc.

Planned Parenthood: 

the measure "clearly violates Texas women's constitutional rights by drastically reducing access to safe and legal abortion statewide."

Court Opinion::

"there are 254 counties in Texas, and Planned Parenthood’s evidence showed that well before H.B. 2 was to take effect, abortions were performed in only 13 counties in Texas."

"There was evidence offered by Planned Parenthood that more than 90% of the women seeking an abortion in Texas would be able to obtain an abortion from a physician within 100 miles of their respective residences even if H.B. 2 went into effect."

Well kids, there's a cold front headed this way, so I gotta hit the beach while I still can. Keep up the good work deconstructing arguments, maybe on my return I'll be a queer nazi child molesting armed racist who wears Myrna's cast-offs - thereby proving that the ACA is working marvelously.

Seeing that this has become a open thread, I'll post this...

I had no medical insurance from age 18 to 38, 20 years. Assuming insurance would have cost me $300/month, that's a total of $72,000 I would have paid to insurance companies. In that time period, I incurred about $4,000 in medical expenses, which I paid myself. That's a savings of $68,000 over 20 years. Now, young people who enthusiastically voted for hope, change, and spreading the wealth around are finding that they are the ones with the ability, not the need, and they don't have the option that saved me 68K.

That's why I call them "suckers".

@primi_timpano Seems like a continuation of a great legacy to me.

Former top commenter glories in 'winning' internet p*ssin*g matches and the killing of babies she could never have. Have a great weekend!

He's queer! He wears women's clothes!, he's actually a woman. He's an asshole!!!

Yeah, hon, you sure thrashed. Imagine how awesome your debate skills will be when you march past puberty.

Totally, we shouldn't be required to have car insurance either - thanks a lot Obama! What's this have to do with Rick Perry banning abortions though?

The person who controls your "reproductive rights", and every other facet of your body is most likely an unelected democrat bureaucrat who now has the power of life and death over you. Racist gun owners aren't much of a threat, unless they're urban racist gun owners.

@mavdog @dingo PP leads the US in abortions every year.  Roughly 324,000 a year.  Would you call that progress?  While they have been in schools conducting sex ed classes, abortion have increased.  Think of it like this, if Wal Mart went to your high school and talked about spending wisely but then discussed all of the advantages to coming to Wal Mart, would that be true education or a marketing campaign?  Most non-profits show a track record of actually reducing the cause they are fighting for (ie - Cancer Society, Amer. Heart Assoc.).  This is not the case and as taxpayers, you are paying around $500 million a year to support an unsuccessful company.  Would you ask the same for your financial investments? 

@mavdog @dingo The post consisted of  direct quotes contrasting the ruling and the organization's official statement. These contrasting quotes are at the heart of the issue. 

There was no 'attack'. There is ample capacity as far as I know within the LiveFyre cloud to relevantly discus the  issues in a meaningful manner. 

It takes a certain amount if childishness to whine at the presented facts.

No, I leave that on the beach. Have you ever been on a beach, hon?

What do studies from countries that don't allow gun rights have to do with vacuuming fetuses? An open thread, once opened, is a bitch to close.

I agree, make the little shits own their fervent need for hope, change, and redistribution of what little wealth they have.

I do, hence my little tale. Why aren't the people least likely to need or purchase med insurance allowed the option? They demanded choice and that government keep its hands off their bodies, so of course they voted against those concepts, and now the hands on their little bodies have limited their choices. Kudos.

@mavdog so let's say PP non-abortion facility A (located on Park, west of Greenville) has a client that is considering an abortion.  Are you saying they would not refer that client to PP surgical facility B (located less than 2 miles from the Park and Greenville location).  While PP facility A does not provide abortions, they can easily refer the actual surgical facility down the road from them.  So saying that seems odd, is not really that odd.

While PP does provide those other services outside of abortion, do you find it odd that they would pro-actively shut down facilities here in Texas that are not affected at all by the new laws in effect?  So are they protecting their profits or "really concerned for women's rights..."?

@mavdog @rbtxcat75 Thanks for the education on other non-profits that receive govt funding (not being sarcastic).  Make things up?  So based on PP's own information (which is dated as hell) they do approx. 324K abortions a year.  That is a fact.  The "services" argument is the standard one from pro-PP folks.  37% of clinical income comes from abortions.  Abby Johnson, former PP director that has become pro-life describes that each director had an "abortion quota" they had to raise revenue (read her book).  Does that sound like an organization that we should 1.) send a $500 million dollar check to every year.  2.) have the US government force states to use in ANY women's health programs for their state?

@mavdog @rbtxcat75 @dingo PP is the Wal Mart and McDonald's of abortions plus we send nearly a half billion dollars in tax revenue to them, so what do you expect?  Can you name another non-profit organization that receives that much money from the US government?

@mavdog @dingo Mavdog = deflecting the issue in the original post....

@mavdog @dingo Personal attacks are truly effective at persuading against a court ruling that directly contradicts the PP statement.

Whether I am this or you are that is pretty trivial with regard to the essence of the ruling, which is what I deem to be the most beneficial subject of my comments. I apologize if that particular character flaw offends your sensitive perspective.

At a time and place of my choosing. I'm kind of interested in the powerful arguments yet to come in support of lies and limitation of choice, like maybe I'm a transvestite!

Don't argue with me, I'm immune to this Idiot scheme. Just keep in mind that right about now, millions of voters are realizing they were blatantly lied to and are thinking how much they'd like to take the gamble I did

Those insurance companies now answer to a benevolent power.

It's getting better. Now I've been called queer and a child molester or something.

The power of the liberal intellect, simply awesome!

@mavdog @doublecheese I've seen more of those shows online than I have on TV.  Just saying.

@mavdog @ruddski What isn't hilarious is that those shows are where the majority of the under 30 crowd gets their news.

Stay away from the lefty news people, hon. They're ripping your savior up. Even the premier news shows - SNL, Daily Show, etc. are slamming Dear Leader.

Yeah, I read the news. Try it sometime.