Deuell Asks AG: Can State Ban Abortion Affiliates?
State Sen. Bob Deuell wants Planned Parenthood's clinics out of the state’s Women’s Health Program, which provides family planning services — but not abortions — to impoverished Medicaid patients. And he says a 2005 law should exclude them already.
But for years, the state’s Health and Human Services Commission has allowed those clinics to continue participating, disregarding the legislative mandate for fear that barring them might be unconstitutional. Deuell has asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to clear up the matter, hoping it will free up the agency to push Planned Parenthood out.
“My primary motivation is for ...
Comments (11)
Bob Brown
This move smells like election season smoke.
Lorna Williams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Would you rather have people running around with babies for the state to support.I feel that Planned Parenthood provides a great service for those who would'nt be able to afford it otherwise.
Evelyn White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Keep 'em pregnant, barefooted, and at home. What a neanderthal.
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is election season smoke. He is trying to force the issue of abortion to forefront. What he seems to want is a Abbot to rule in a way that will cause a lawsuit on abortion in the middle of election season. It is a lawsuit they will loose just like the EPA and AZ SB 1070. But it allows them to stir a divisive issue and fire up some of their typical fearmonger politics in the middle of the election.
Mr Duell is my senator and he is never heard of except for when he is running.
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
For an alternative to this type of election time grandstanding SD 2 voters have a choice and a very good one in Kathleen Shaw.
http://www.kathleenshaw.net/
Scott Chase via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sen. Deull is a physician and ought to be praising PP for providing needed medical services. The 2005 law prohibits abortions and he knows that. I wonder if he's trying to set up his own practice group to get the state funds that PP would lose if he's successful.
Irene Solnik via Texas Tribune on Facebook
read the Handmaiden's Tale
Donna Floyd-Hickson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So if its not "their Way" its no way at all at least give people a choice its something that they not us have to live with just saying No ain't going to do it even God gives us a choice when u educate people they make better choices when u just say don't do this they going to do it anyway are politicians so out of touch with our society ills that they filll that punishing people for their lifestyle is going make a better society even the bible says let the tares and the wheat grow together then GOD says He will seperate us, He is the only one who is Righteous and just we all fall short, Republicans think they r more righteous than anyone else they are the biggest hypocrites of all.
Glenda Parks via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just moved back to Texas and this man is my senator. What an embarrassment! Legislation or regulation based on personal likes and dislikes rather than outcomes is so petty.
ShastaZ
Deuell is so out of touch. I get my yearly well-woman visits at PP, and they do cancer screenings, mammograms, blood pressure and diabetes tests... I've gotten my annual flu shot there before, too.
PPs are good at using Medicaid $ to take care of people, those 'comprehensive health centers' are not -- just read the newspaper on their track record.
This dude always seems to be on the wrong side of smart medical care for his constituents, which makes me fear for any patients he may still have, since the guy is an MD.
Oy vey.
Heather Paffe via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This madness has been coming from Deuell for years. It really needs to stop.