State Health Flexibility Act: Republican Bill Aims To Block States From Spending Money On Abortions

Mother Jones:

A group of congressional Republicans are pushing a bill to put key health care decisions in the hands of the states, rather than the federal government. But language buried in the legislation would do the opposite on one key issue: abortion.

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Comments

[ok3apples]

05:16 PM on 05/03/2012

The GOP, since it's mandating birth and trying to do away with family planning and access to birth control, should support these children when they are born and as they grow up with top notch schools, well run day care centers since they want all the mothers working those minimum wage jobs and don't want to support maternity leave, top notch health care, and low tuition colleges to make sure they all succeed.

[PamperedHousecat]

08:26 PM on 05/03/2012

And yes, the Republicans will do just that.
....in a galaxy far, far away.

[JuliaDemJules2020]

04:50 PM on 05/03/2012

I am in my child bearing years. Gop stay out of my uterus. It is KNOWN of your BUSINESS.



PS. I work and pay taxes and keep my money here in our banks in this Country to help our economy. Unlike Mitt Romney.

[oldwolf49]

08:56 AM on 05/04/2012

"NONE"

[JuliaDemJules2020]

04:43 PM on 05/03/2012

The last time a Republican cared about me as a human being was when I was a fetus.

[Bronxdude]

02:19 PM on 05/03/2012

Republican allegiance to Pro-Life ends precipitously at birth, as evidenced by the patently anti-human legislation republicans have introduced since the 1973 decision that addressed gender bias by invalidating state laws restricting women’s reproductive rights. Once born, and no longer a “wedge issue” infused with the capacity to manipulate sentiment and ensnare the vaunted evangelical vote, republicans have no use for the bottom 98%. Republicans rail against “intrusive government,” but are aggressively pursuing legislation designed to control the reproductive health of 90 million women, while concurrently defunding essential “safety-net” programs to offset Republican deficit expansion created when Republicans forced Congress to borrow trillions from China to pay for tax cuts for those earning $250,000 or more. According to non-partisan CBO numbers, Obamacare will reduce the deficit by trillions, yet Republicans are intent on repeal because access to healthcare will dramatically increase the standard of hope for the bottom 98%, while making parasitic insurers like UnitedDeathcare less profitable, which worries Republicans. Even though the Hyde Amendment disallows federal money for abortions and Planned Parenthood funding helps uninsured women with contraceptives, health education, medical care, and life-saving cervical cancer screenings, Republicans want to end their funding, effectively denying healthcare for 14 million women, which will cost lives.

[Bronxdude]

02:07 PM on 05/03/2012

With no offsets or reduced funding in other areas to pay for their “giveaways,” from 2000 to 2008, an era of record debt, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan gave trillions in subsidies and tax cuts (projected long-term deficit cost: $32 trillion) to wealthy elites and cash soaked corporations, and now they want to erase their deficit by gutting safety-net services for women, children, seniors, and, in general, the working poor. In a democracy, the pre-eminent elite or the top 2% cannot be allowed to orchestrate providence for the bottom 98% through the use of sadistic and draconian social and economic policies, which is exactly how Paul, Eric, Mitch, and John have collectively governed. For example: On 27 April, 231 House Republicans voted to defeat a motion seeking to protect federal funding for mammogram and cervical cancer screenings; On 25 April, 46 Senate Republicans voted against legislation designed to restructure the US Postal Service, a move designed to produce solvency, avert the loss of 100,000 jobs, save 400 rural post-offices, and maintain Saturday delivery, which seniors and hospitals need; On 26 April, 41 Senate Republicans voted against the Violence Against Women Act, which included funding to address: child abuse, domestic violence, crime on college campuses, child pornography, and sex trafficking; On 27 April, as an offset (Republicans did not “offset” Cheney’s misguided and disastrous Iraq invasion, or their 2006 $900 billion Prescription Drug Bill), 215 House Republicans voted to cut $6 billion in wellness and prevention programs to “offset” a huge hike in student-loan rates. In his quest to “destroy” Obama, McConnell has, instead, knowingly embraced repeal of the 20th Century.

[PamperedHousecat]

09:47 PM on 05/03/2012

Aw man!
And that was my favorite century.
You are so spot on, its nauseous.
Fanned.....(like you need any more)

[imtheoz]

02:01 PM on 05/03/2012

Once again we are faced with the topsy turvy right wing world where the "clean air act" allows more polution. "pro life means" means letting children starve to death and "flexibility" means do it my way!

[oldwolf49]

08:57 AM on 05/04/2012

Welcome the to the new and improved republican party. f/f

[Chris Bayne]

01:11 PM on 05/03/2012

Republican are trying their hardest to let people that they only represent the 1% males. Like a party committing suicide. They've kicked about everyone else out, kind of an exclusive white males club.

[johnsayon]

12:51 PM on 05/03/2012

For anyone living beyond the Pleistocene era this is a non-issue. Capital punishment and abortion are wrong, go against the purpose of our species, and should be banned outright. No thinking person should support either.

[willowraven]

01:33 PM on 05/03/2012

Sorry but you do not rule the world and never will. Take care of your self and leave the rest of us to take care of us..You have a right to your VIEW, but no right to control MY BODY.. You view your right. My body, MINE..

[goatini]

04:48 PM on 05/03/2012

You need to move beyond the Medieval era. Women are not breeding containers.

[alphakat333]

12:46 PM on 05/03/2012

So much for being the party of "state's rights" and not leading a charge to trample women.

Where is all the effort on the jobs you jerkwads promised?

[soundping]

12:39 PM on 05/03/2012

Republicans War on Women will never stop.

[gaydood]

12:34 PM on 05/03/2012

i was a kid pre roe vs wade and we never ever want to return to back alley abortions !

[Vixter]

05:13 PM on 05/03/2012

When I was in High School abortions were still illegal, but all of us women who believed in 'free love' knew the name of a back alley abortionist. If the anti-choice folks think that outlawing safe procedures will stop abortions, they would also believe that R's care about their well being.

[gaydood]

06:36 PM on 05/03/2012

have u seen the movie:
A Private Matter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Private_Matter

[vandergoose]

10:49 PM on 05/03/2012

Glad you showed so much responsibility...and treated an abortion like a teeth cleaning...

[redhead55]

12:28 PM on 05/03/2012

A great video to show just where Romney stands on women's issues.

http://mariopiperni.com/womens-rights/romneys-extreme-positions-on-womens-issues.php

[John Hermans]

12:24 PM on 05/03/2012

JOBS JOBS JOBS???

Where are the JOBS bills? Where is that transportation bill? I have only seen one bill called (funnily enough) 'JOBS' which will create zero jobs.

[canadianconservative]

02:00 PM on 05/03/2012

15 jobs bills were passed by the House and are now on Harry Reid's desk. He won't bring them to the floor.

[CA93010]

05:59 PM on 05/03/2012

15 "job killing" bills are in the Senate, and your right, why should Reid attempt to have a discussion on a bill that would need to be changed, after that, no Republicants will vote on it because it's "not their way".

[Japippy]

02:49 PM on 05/03/2012

John, your count is off by ONE. The person who wrote it was probably a NEW HIRE just doing his NEWLY created job.

Jim

[TuoulumneFlower]

12:16 PM on 05/03/2012

There is no bottom to the depths of Republican hypocrisy.

[3RawBob]

12:13 PM on 05/03/2012

Thankfully we have a President that will veto these bills if they were to pass the Senate. The Republicans seem to care only about abortion and gays.

[gaydood]

12:34 PM on 05/03/2012

goffy huh