A federal appeals judge says Texas cannot ban Planned Parenthood from receiving state funds.
Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith agreed Friday that there’s sufficient evidence the state’s law banning Planned Parenthood from participating in the state’s Women’s Health Program is unconstitutional. He let stand an injunction blocking Texas from enforcing it.
Smith had stayed the injunction earlier this week so he could review it.
Read more at Official Wire. By Chris Tomlinson.
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Another tyrant Judge overrules the Law making bodies of the United States. What these tyrants do is despicable.
Texas should demand the that the Judge show them where it says in the Constitution that taxpayers have to pay for abortions whether they want to or not.
The United States of America will have to make a determination of what constitutes murder. The trying to define when life begins is in fact a side line issue; what is pertinent is that a life is terminated, soul or no soul.
The only time a termination of life in the womb should be considered is when another life is at risk, or if there is concern that to allow the life to continue would constitute cruel punishment to the innocent. Even then, there are considerations of history that could be used to debate such considerations such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak2jxmhCH1M.