Republican Extremist Governor Rick Perry ordered his Tea’d legislators to convene a special session to override Democratic State Legislator Wendy Davis’ successful filibuster to halt the close of 37 out of 42 Planned Parenthood affiliate state clinics.
Texas Planned Parenthood affiliate clinics provide 97% affordable preventive health
care services for women and men including cancer screenings, sexually
transmitted disease/infection testing, contraception and 3% of non-government funded abortions.
You won’t believe what happened
next…
In order to discourage and demean female rights supporters from attending the session
…Texas Senate security was
ordered to confiscate “tampons, maxi pads,
sugar packets and condoms” from female supporters, but anyone carrying a gun was free to enter the chambers – no questions
asked!?!?! (news.yahoo.com)
Perry
and his Tea’d legislators aren’t the only Republican extremists in the overthrow
Roe v Wade asylum…
…Ohio Republican legislators
snuck in “the most restrictive new abortion measures in the country into the
state budget bill to avoid Texas-style public backlash over amendments they knew wouldn’t survive public scrutiny”!
The Ohio Republican extremist budget 1) defunds
Planned Parenthood clinics; 2)
reallocates family planning funding to
right wing crisis pregnancy centers; 3) strips funding from rape crisis centers; 4) imposes harsh restrictions
on abortion clinics that will force many to shut down, and 5) requires doctors to give women seeking abortion
information about the presence of a fetal
heartbeat”. (videocafe.crooks and
liars.com)
An
article entitled State-Level Assault on
Abortion Rights continues in first half of
2013 provides a bird’s eye view of more
Republican overthrow Roe v Wade lunacy
tactics with Ohio Republican extremists competing with Oklahoma Republican
extremists for the lunacy lead…
Texas
|
“Thirty
one percent of women in Texas are uninsured. Those fortunate enough to be
able to access abortion care must first go through state-directed counseling
designed to discourage them from having the procedure.” (rollingstyone.com)
|
North Dakota Arkansas Mississippi Oklahoma
Ohio
Kansas
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“Simultaneously
teeing up a direct legal challenge to the 40 year precedent of Roe v Wade.
One way or another, their goal is to end access to safe and legal abortion
nationwide” (rollingstone.com)
|
Alabama
North Dakota
|
“Enacted
laws that require providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital,
effectively giving hospital veto power over clinics’ ability to provide
services.” (realitycheck.org)
|
Ohio
|
“Adopted a
new provision prohibiting public hospitals in the state from entering into
transfer clinic agreements, which will make it difficult for some clinics to
remain in operation.” (realitycheck.org)
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Alabama
Indiana
Virginia
|
“Approved
new standards for abortion clinics that are essentially the same as those
required for ambulatory surgical centers, even though the latter provide
procedures that are more invasive and risky than abortion: (realitycheck.org)
|
Alabama
Indiana
Louisiana
Mississippi
|
“enacted
laws that require the physician prescribing telemedicine to be in the same
room as the patient, bringing to 12 the number of states that prohibit the
use of telemedicine” as a medication abortion procedure. (realitycheck.org)
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Arkansas
Pennsylvania
|
“moved to
limit coverage of abortion in the health exchanges that will be established
under the affordable Care Act” (realitycheck.org)
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Ohio
Oklahoma
|
“Moved to bar family planning providers from
being able to receive state family planning funds along with Title X dollars
or federal maternal and child health or social services block grant funds.” (realitycheck.org)
|
Ohio
|
“established
a priority system for allocating state or federal funds that puts family
planning providers at the end of a long list that includes health departments
and community health centers” (realitycheck.org)
|
Indiana
|
“requires
a woman to undergo testing to determine whether a fetal heartbeat is audible”
(realitycheck.org)
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Ohio
|
“extends
the amount of time a woman must wait to have an abortion by excluding
weekends and holidays from the days counted toward South Dakota’s 72 –hour waiting
period” (realtycheck.org)
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If any of the petitions below are closed, be happy - WE are signing!
www.dccc.org/pages/plannedparenthood
www.change.org/petitions/stand-up-for-planned-parenthood-and-women...
fairandfeminist.com/?p=572
petitions.moveon.org/sign/stand-with-planned-parenthoo
SOURCES
www.rollingstone.com/.../abortion-rights-under-fire-why-wendy-davis-fi...
videocafe.crooksandliars.com › Blogs › Heather's blog
State-Level Assault on Abortion Rights
Continues in First Half of 2013
news.yahoo.com/tampons-confiscated-guns-allowed-texas-senate-debates...
The only way to stop the
Republican extremist war on women is…
TO SPEAK UP
AND
TO VOTEMOUT
in record
numbers
Midterm Elections 2014!
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