Texas State Senator's office fire bombed after defending Planned Parenthood
 

You may or may not have heard about the decision in Texas to defund PP even if it means losing billions in funding for the Texas Women's Healthcare program from the federal government. One state senator argued against such a drastic course of action only to find her office fire bombed yesterday. luckily no one was hurt, but the perp got away. This has gone way too far.

http://news.yahoo.com/report-texas-s...012030564.html

I can't even. This whole thing has become more than sickening.

This is crazy. I didn't know PP received funding from the state. The woman's healthcare plan is still being funded but now the state is having to absorb the total cost.

Would someone explain to me how killing people (thankfully failing in this case) is a good response to people, in your opinion, killing people? Killing grown ups is ok but killing fetuses is not? Killing someone over an opinion, one that even failed to accomplish anything, is a good choice?

The clinics were eligible for Medicaid like other healthcare clinics. If I remember correctly, because of state law in Texas, Planned Parenthoods in Texas are separate - one for abortions, a different one for other healthcare and family planning services. Meaning you can't get a breast cancer screening and an abortion in the same office. (This may be a different state, but I think it's Texas, someone can correct me if I'm wrong).

It was the "other healthcare and family planning services" part that was receiving public funding (of any sort - the abortion services portion has to be funded through charging and/or donations because of the Hyde Amendment). Rick Perry and his buds blocked PP from receiving funding through the Medicaid Women's Health Program. The HHS threatened to cut off all medicaid funding for family planning as a result, and they still went through with it. So the HHS went through with their threat.

An HHS spokesperson said: "Medicaid law is very clear; a state may not restrict patients' choice of providers of services like mammograms and other cancer screenings, if those providers are qualified to deliver care covered by Medicaid."

And yeah, it's $35 million extra healthcare dollars they have to allocate, and yeah, they're probably not going to be able to do it. But never fear, they're now suing the Obama administration. Too bad federal law and HHS policy isn't on their side.

Their logic is that by killing one person, they can stop that person from killing lots and lots of other "people." This is how they also support the death penalty.

This was especially scary to me since my cousin works in this office. We are so grateful that no one was hurt.