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Texas anti-choice advocates won
another victory in their sustained war against women when a Texas judge ruled
that Planned
Parenthood could no longer accept Medicaid, the federally mandated
insurance program for low-income Americans.
The ruling, of course, stems
from the widespread belief among Republicans and their supporters that Planned
Parenthood sells baby parts on the black market.
Not since the 1980s, when
countless Americans believed that Satanists were secretly murdering 50,000
children a year, has something so obviously false been believed with such
fervor.
And just like the “Satanic
Panic,” the idea that Planned Parenthood sells baby parts on the black market
is a false, politically motivated claim that has no factual evidence to support
it, but benefits conservatives across the country.
In Louisiana, thankfully, a
judge actually ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood and issued a two-week
restraining order, which would require that state to continue making Medicaid
payments to that organization.
He said, of the ongoing legal
battle between Planned Parenthood and the state of Louisiana, that the group
should have little trouble proving that attempts to defund them are purely
political.
He maintained that there is no
evidence that the group even performs abortions in Louisiana, that they sell
baby parts, or that the videos, which “prove” the allegations were even shot in
that state.
Bobby Jindal, governor of
Louisiana, candidate for the Republican nomination, and historically on the
wrong side of liberal rights and science, has vowed to continue the fight
against a group that is empirically proven to do nothing in his state but
support women’s health through affordable cancer screenings and other services.
As the Republican war against
women continues, their candidates, in between slinging mud at each other,
constantly attack Planned Parenthood, and Republicans at the federal level have
tried to defund the group as well. It’s not working, of course, because
Americans aren’t as stupid as Republicans think we are.
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