Here she goes again
Obama-appointed judge orders Trump to continue funding Planned Parenthood
An Obama-appointed federal judge Monday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, which was a key element of his One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
US District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued a preliminary injunction to stop the feds from halting funds to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for even non-abortion services such as birth control, citing the First Amendment.
Federal funding for abortion is already prohibited under the Hyde Amendment.
“Restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies and attendant complications because of reduced access to effective contraceptives, and an increase in undiagnosed and untreated STIs [sexually transmitted infections],” she wrote in a 58-page opinion.
“Legislative context corroborates Plaintiffs’ contention that Congress drafted these criteria with the intent to punish Planned Parenthood Federation and its Members,” the judge said.
This might be more nuts than her previous rulings
Seriously, the Appropriations Clause states “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of Appropriations made by Law” (Article I, Section 9, Clause 7). This means Congress must authorize all spending. The Legislative Branch, not the Judicial Branch. Congress may cut any and all funding except that required by Article I Section 8. If they wanted to defund Obamacare, they have that right. They can also defund most federal courts if they so choose. Since it says “To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;”, that means they only really need two courts below the Supreme Court, right?
The GOP megalaw enacts a one-year ban on Medicaid funding to health-care nonprofits that provide abortions and garnered over $800,000 in federal funding back in 2023.
In case I missed it, Planned Parenthood is not a federal government agency enacted by an act of Congress, and are not entitled to a cent of taxpayer money flowing from the federal government. Especially when they make around $1.5 billion on their own. She has way overstepped her boundaries, and once SCOTUS has smacked her down, she needs to be impeached for her inability to understand her job.
Federal judge must have missed that in the year 2025, birth control pills are available at every walmart and CVS.
Oral contraceptives are only available with a prescription, meaning a young woman must visit a physician or equivalent for an exam, another function of Planned Parenthood.
Why do conservative “males” insist on controlling women?
Wacko Mr teach claims either an “Obama-appointed federal judge” (or is she a “Biden-appointed judge”?) was overstepping judicial bounds by restoring funding to women’s health.
Yes, yes, Congress writes laws, but ya know, they have to be legal. That’s where judges come in. The stupid One Big Beautiful Bill Act singled out Planned Parenthood because they perform legal abortions as a side hustle. It is already illegal to spend tax dollars on abortion, but Congress eliminated ALL federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
We all understand that MAGA opposes poor women receiving an abortion, but why do they SUPPORT STDs, cancer, unplanned pregnancies, ectopic pregnances, endometriosis, hormonal imbalances, structural abnormalities, menstrual disorders, uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts?
The ruling states the defunding provision is likely in violation of the bill of attainder clause in the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from writing bills that single out entities for punishment.
The distinguished Mr Dowd wrote:
So? Doesn’t Congress have that right? Do you believe that it is illegal for Congress to refuse to have the government pay for prenatal infanticide?
It is already illegal for government to pay for abortions.
The Hyde Amendment was passed in 1977.
Is your concern that a raped girl or woman, or a 10 impregnated by her father or uncle, or a woman with a dangerous ectopic pregnancy may receive an abortion?
“Infant” is defined as a post-parturition human, that is, a baby once outside the womb, i.e., post-natal. “Pre-natal” means before birth. “Infanticide” can’t be committed against an embryo or fetus.
Is your construction “pre-natal infanticide” to suggest that an infant, once born, is re-implanted into the uterus and murdered? That sounds horrendous!! Has that ever happened?
The Head MAGAt, and your leader, Mr trump said:
Killing a live infant is considered murder in every state. Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of three babies born alive in his Philadelphia abortion clinic.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM),
Why are late-term abortions EVER performed?
Health (cancer, toxemia, uterine infection, rupture of amniotic sac) of the potential mother and lethal fetal anomalies following a late fetal ultrasound looking at developing organs. Some pregnant women delay deciding for economic or mental health reasons.
Claims of abortions occurring “moments before birth” or even “after birth” are false. These scenarios do not occur, nor are they legal in the United States.
Many Americans oppose any and all abortions but chip away at the margins because they haven’t the will (or backing) to ban ALL abortions outright, as they desire. They focus on the few late-term abortions to force 11 year old girls to bear their father’s children – to force a 24 year old grad student to bear the child of the man who violently raped her.
Anti-abortionists should “man” up and be honest. Ban all abortions, “men”!!
Conservative “males”, hardly “men”, have long wanted to control women, especially the sex lives of women. They oppose female-controlled contraception. A woman enjoying sex is a whore, slut, tramp, cunt, promiscuous, loose, easy, hooker, prostitute. A “male” enjoying sex is a president, stud, manly, a real man and rarely a rake, roue, satyr or libertine. Vice President Harris is a whore; Mr trump a “he-man”.
Humpty-trumpty once told his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein, that he liked to “fuck his bes friend’s wives”. What a role model.
The annoyed Mr Dowd wrote:
This is the typical leftist bovine feces: if you do not support one thing, then you must concomitantly support all of the horrendous things that the non-supported person or group says it does positively? If I had written that his support of illegal immigrants concomitantly means he supports the gang activities, crimes, rapes, and murders that some illegals have done, he would scream bloody murder.
The annoyed Mr Dana sidesteps the issue completely.
Bullshit. By banning all support of Planned Parenthood, MAGAts are blocking access of poor women to medical services for treatment and prevention of STDs, gynecological cancer detection and treatments, contraception and other “female” medical issues.
As previously noted, it is illegal for the United States government to pay for abortion services with very few exceptions.
This part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was to punish Planned Parenthood for performing legal abortions – abortions NOT paid for by the United States government!
Is Mr Dana suggesting that the United States will find another way to pay for medical services for poor and working class females? After all, Medicaid is being reduced. Or is his point that poor women should get better jobs so they can afford private doctors? Someone will have to pay, either with money or lives. We ALL wish our economic system was better balanced, but it’s not. In fact, it’s getting worse.
Mr Dana has made clear that to him any and all abortions at any time for any reason are murder and must be adjudicated thus. He believes that a fertilized human ovum is a person. He’s obviously entitled to his beliefs. He just as obviously NOT entitled to force others to abide by his beliefs.
Since Mr trump famously eschewed birth control with his numerous (dozens or hundreds) conquests, who paid for the abortions?
..and?
PP is not entitled to any federal funding.
We keep hearing that PP only receives a pittance from the feds, yet every time sane people try to kill that funding, it suddenly becomes essential.
At which point are they (and you) lying? Provide an essay detailing your bizarre reasoning.
No one is. Congress can kill all federal spending whenever they choose! They chose to make cuts to Medicaid and to add a trillion to DHS and DOD.
Who told you that Planned Parenthood receives only a pittance of government funding? Most of their state/federal funding is from their Medicaid patients.
On a state by state basis Medicaid consists of a combination of state and federal funds.
for example:
The MAGAt movement pretends to care about federal spending, but their objectives in this case are to punish Planned Parenthood for performing abortions (NOT paid for by the feds) and to teach the poor a lesson. The MAGAt movement gives not one shit for the working poor in America. Not one shit. In fact, they hate the poor who they imagine are all black, Hispanic or lazy white folks.
Poor Rimjob just keeps repeating the same useless nonsense hoping to convince himself that he’s right and everybody else is wrong.
Sad really.
Poor folks have Medicaid. They can go to any doctor accepting that insurance. Planned Parenthood has not use.
Just a little something everybody should know.
Especially that whin8ng Rimjob.
Do away with government funding of abortions and Obama kids will learn to use birth control.
Of course there is no federal funding for abortion. It seems the trump kidz have more need for birth control than the Obama’s.
The fertility rate in the United States is at a record low. White girls need to “get on the stick”, so to speak.