They do realize that it is lawful for the duly elected Congress to decide what they will and won’t fund, right? And that those Democrat states can provide funding out of their own budget, right?
Democrat-Led States Sue Trump Admin Over Efforts to Defund Planned Parenthood
A coalition of Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration this week over the “Big, Beautiful Bill’s” provision defunding abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
The lawsuit was brought by 22 attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), whose state has a Republican attorney general. California Attorney General Rob Bonta claimed in a press conference on Tuesday that the provision is “punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion.”
“The hypocrisy is really hard to ignore: a party that claims to be defenders of free speech only seem to care about it when it aligns with their own agenda,” he said.
Democrats filed their lawsuit in the same Massachusetts district court that Planned Parenthood filed a separate lawsuit in. An Obama-appointed judge in that lawsuit issued a preliminary injunction last week against the provision, effectively mandating Medicaid funding for the organization’s affiliates as litigation continues.
They’re going to lose. Nowhere in the Constitution nor in federal law does it say that funding any private organization is required. There is a law called the Hyde Amendment, which bars the federal government from funding abortion.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) previously argued in its opposition to Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit that the abortion organization “has no right to taxpayer money” and the “court should not invent such a right.”
“The Court should uphold Congress’s lawful exercise of its authority to decide to whom it will entrust taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars,” the filing reads.
Do the states of Ca, NY, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Mass, Michigan, Minnesota, NJ, Nevada, NM, NC, Oregon, Josh Shapiro (as explained above), RI, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and D.C. (unsurprising, the 1 office they have in DC is an a majority black neighborhood. Dems love aborting black babies) think they will win? The Supreme Court will most likely mention that they can provide funding themselves.
They don’t care that abortion is defunded. They care that their party allies are defended. Why do you think the democratic party is facing bankruptcy? Their donors weren’t using their own money, just passing through what the government paid them.
You have to remember: Democrats want a way to get rid of the problems when they knock up their mistresses! Some of them are not as smart as Bill Clinton, who only injected his baby batter into his girlfriend’s mouth.
If only she’d swallowed the evidence, rather than dribbling some out onto her blue dress!
Only an idiot or a liberal (BIRM) could buy the argument that this is somehow a free speech argument. Ans only an idiot or a liberal (Ibid) could MAKE that argument with a straight face.