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Subscribe to RSSIndiana Governor Mitch Daniels announced Friday afternoon that he will sign a bill that will drastically cut Planned Parenthood funding in the state by preventing Medicaid funds from being used for abortions. In a statement, Daniels said:
I supported this bill from the outset, and the recent addition of language guarding against the spending of tax dollars to support abortions creates no reason to alter my position. The principle involved commands the support of an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers, as reflected in greater than 2:1 bipartisan votes in both legislative chambers.
I commissioned a careful review of access to services across the state and can confirm that all non-abortion services, whether family planning or basic women’s health, will remain readily available in every one of our 92 counties. In addition, I have ordered the Family and Social Services Administration to see that Medicaid recipients receive prompt notice of nearby care options. We will take any actions necessary to ensure that vital medical care is, if anything, more widely available than before.
Any organization affected by this provision can resume receiving taxpayer dollars immediately by ceasing or separating its operations that perform abortions.
The decision is certain to fuel speculation about a potential presidential run by Daniels who has drawn the ire of conservatives by calling for a "truce" on social issues.
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Meanwhile, what's the current unemployment rate in the state of IN?
Dontcha love love the priorities?
Wage War on Womens rights *check*
Bust Organized Labor * check*
Balance the budget off the backs of the working poor & additional tax breaks for the wealthy *check*
Sign bring your gun to work bill into law *check*
That should put him on the fast track to the WH!
Careful, Feisty, you are talking about no jo's hero, and we all KNOW how accurate she is.
So much for the "reasonable" republican. Guess he's also vying for the whack-job vote.
Indy:
I LMAO at these clowns falling all over each other to be first in line! ;o)))
I hear ya Feisty. These bufoons are gonna damage themselves so much just to win the primary that none of them will have any chance in the general. Americans don't want crazy.
Shhhh - let that be 'our' little secret m'kay Indy!
Let them nominate any of the current contenders and it will be 1996 all over again! lol
Lets hope they don`t want crazy. I`m surprised there are so many.
There has always been language in the spending bills against the use of Federal Funds for abortions.
I certainly hope the Cabbage Patch Gov; as I affectionately refer to him as, doesn't get the idea that he's ready to be President of the United States.
Indiana, the state where "sundown towns" used to warn all non-whites to be out of sight or out of town by dark or face arrest, assault or worse. Indiana, the state which was basically run by the KKK in the 20s. Outside of Bloomington or Indianpolis it's still even more backwards and bigoted than the deep South of today.
Little confused on your post. You saying that the Indiana of today is a bigoted as the Indiana of the 30"s and that the people of Indiana support this position and keep eleceting people like Daniels. Indiana was won by Obama in 2008.
Hey Cincinnati Slim, I'm a small town Indiana girl and I'm trying very hard to bring our rural area out of the "dark ages". My daughter and future son-in-law tell me I don't see the racism that still exists because I myself am color blind. But I do know that my bi-racial granddaughter is well received every where that we take her, which includes the Lutheran church that my husbands ancestors established when they came here from Germany. We took my three year old step grandson to Easter services and he is not bi-racial, but African-American and he won the hearts of the whole congregation when he walked up to pastor and without prompting stuck his hand out to shake pastors hand. Sometimes people try so hard to make sure they are not construed as racist that they tend to over do it.
Now, regarding Mitch the new far right *itch....I've crossed party lines and voted for him because of his fiscal conservatism and social moderation. I think the guy just made a big mistake because he is about to loose the moderate swing votes, like mine! And if he does run and win the republican nomination, I will be among the first to step up and denounce his credentials as a representative of all the people. I just don't understand why Indiana politicians hate women rights!
Once again the theme for the Republican stage is set the candidates are pathological lier's ...racist's and psychopaths !
Daniel says, "he will sign a bill that will drastically cut Planned Parenthood funding in the state by preventing Medicaid funds from being used for abortions." The amount of money used to pay for abortions is a very small amount of the total. He uses the word "Drastically" very loose. Another lie is what it really is.
Planned Parenthood is NOT allowed to use Fed funds for abortion. They provide a wide variety of medical services to women who cannot afford medical care. BTW...only 3% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion related. Oh...if you are pro life, you should really get behind this organization and the excellent work they do in preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Amen, Ira! I called my state legislator and asked her not to vote for the bill (hb1210) but she did vote for it. My niece works for Planned Parenthood in Michigan (I know we all need to move), and both my 18 year old nieces get their birth control from planned parenthood. I believe this is a sad day for Indiana. Why is it they only care about stopping abortion when they should advocate ending unwanted pregnancies. I know a young women who was kicked off medicaid when her daughter was a year old because she makes $13,000 a year which is too much to qualify. They wouldn't even pay for her to get birth control. Now she is expecting again and being pregnant she again qualifies for Medicaid assistance. And don't say she should get a better job, she works and attends school full time, graduating in the next week. She is also not out sleeping around, she is married to another full time student who works only part time and makes only a few thousand dollars a year. Would birth control have been too much to ask?
Mit Daniels better known as Indiana's 'Little Hitler' what a piece of work, "oh please run for president" LoL...
Let the rest of country know how you really take care of business, picking on women, teachers, union laborers and
ordinary working folks. You will be another shinning example of the crazies.
I hope all people has had their fill of Republican governors so far. Let this be a lesson in future elections, even if the Dem. is not your favorite, they are still better than a Republican any day. Look at all the things they are taking away and they did not let you know when they were campaigning.
Makes your head explode, doesn't it? Sad truth is these people DID tell the voters what they were going to do. Walker in Wisconsin did say he was going to take collective barganing rights away from unions and he still got elected. Look at ME, TX and FL..they elected men who said they would do exatcly what they are now doing. If you vote for a right wing conservative candidate or a Tea Party member what do you expect the outcome will be. Sensible people would never have voted for these folks. Now we hace buyers regret. Too bad or as they are doing in Wisconsin....RECALL all of them.
The republician/tea party elected Rick Scott as governor of Florida, who's company was forced to pay more than 1.7 billion dollars for defrauding the Federal Medicare and Medicaid programs. Scott claims that he did not know that his company was incorrectly billing these programs. He left his CEO position with a $10 million severance package, including stock shares worth $300 million and $1 million a year consulting position. During the investigation, Scott pleaded the fifth to almost all of the questions. But this is the person that won the election. He now calls himself the CEO of Florida and has shown us over and over that only the rich and corporations count. I hope that those who voted for him learned their lesson. I am not a big fan of any politicians but I hope that we can find someone who will represent ALL citizens and not just the far right or left. I will not vote for a republican who has tea party backing EVER!
Pass a law? It's already the law that Federal funds CANNOT be used for abortion. This falacy was used by KYL and others in the budget fight where he wanted Planned Parenthood defunded, and he had to redact the comment. It was a flat out lie. Just a slimy attempt to deprive poorwomen of the medical care they need.
....additionally, Idiana was one of the states hit hardest by the recession and they are far fron digging themselves out of the hole. At this momennt in history, why would he choose to deprive some of the neediest Americans of the heathcare they cannot affort. By doing this, you are really setting up the "Death Panels" you were screming about when HCR was up for debate. Hypocrites.
Mitch Daniels,is not Eugene Debs,"Workers of The World UNITE"this is a example of Compassionate Conservatism,?? Huey Long was better then motercycle Mitch, and his backward majority from the General Assembly.not many votes from the Northwestern IN. "rustbelt." for Mitch
The republicans want to remove any and all support for a poor family or person to feed, clothe and educate a child but forces them to have that child. Women in desperate circumstances forced to bear a child because of this law should drop the baby off at the Governor's mansion and let Grandpa Mitch provide a good Chirstian home.
Seems to be a national Republican theme. Make the unions powerless cause they are traditionally pro democratic and want to take away their power. Defund the programs for the poor cause they really do not have a political voice...who does speak for them? Go after every program they dislike cause they say there's no money. Hey...repeal the Bush tasx cuts and make the richest 1% of Americans pay the same percentage of taxes they paid under Clinton. Funny...when he left office there was a $277 billion dollar surplus.
Can anybody name a single orphanage operated by any Christian religion in any major city in the US. Does anybody know if any of the Catholic hospitals in the US offer the other services PP provides, free to poor women. Just asking? I really want to know, I have not found any yet, and everybody I know (3 couples have had to leave the country and spend a fortune to adopt. Could we privatize this and sell the babies, if there is a buck to made the captains of industry will save some of the unborn. The leaders of the religious community just give lip service to abortion, they have the resources and facilities, but they don't save babies, and place them in homes. When abortion activists start building orphanages, instead of bombing clinics in the name of God, I'll consider them to be Christians.
Forrest, Lutheran services of Indiana does offer adoption services. Don't know about any other organizations here in Indiana, but they did a wonderful job in assisting my cousin and her husband in their adoptions process.
Forrest Grump...
Just in NY to name a select few...Just Google it...sorry guy..
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MY hat is off to those Churches that are actually putting their faith in action in a positive way. This kind of real effort is very weak in my Diocese. One question though, are these orphanages, or just agents which make very exclusive and very expensive arrangements between private parties.
It's so disgusting how Republicans like Mitch Daniels grin and pretend to "call for a truce" while they continue to stab the American middle-class in the back!! (and the poor)
Yeah, run for Persident, Mitch -- you lying, snake-eyed scum. The national media will rip you a new *******. All of your sleazy dealings will be brought to the light -- for all to see. (like allowing BP to dump tons of toxic waste into Lake Michigan, firing teachers & cops and lying about jobs.)
The new Rush Limbaugh/FOX NEWS anti-abortion propaganda is:
"--You're selfish if you don't pump out babies. --Otherwise we'll have to import more foreign labor to cut the grass!"
Seriously -- how sick is that argument?!?
Somebody from the mid-west told me that recently, and compared Sweden to Idiocracy... (they think that's the premise for "Idiocracy" -- rather than too many hillbillies having babies)
I listen to Rush Limbaugh, and never heard this outrageous quote, this is just usual liberal mantra , making outrageous claims of "conservative" quotes, which are either misquotes or outright lies, hoping if repeated enough times it will stick. When are you liberals going to demand that the ones who are having the sex, hence creating the children you want the tax payers to pay to kill, take responsibility for there own actions? You liberals claim to be pro-choice, so why do you act as though, these people don't have any CHOICES not to have "unwanted" pregnancies? Back in the 70's when Roe vs Wade became law, there were not as many choices available to prevent "unwanted" pregnancies. And there is one proven method of prevention, keep your pants on. But instead of demanding society act more "responsibly", you liberals blame the "evil rich" for not wanting to fund the killing of children. You liberals demand that others respect your rights as long as it's only YOUR rights that are being respected. Others have the right not wanting to have their taxes to pay for the murdering of "unwanted" children, whether it is a "religious" reason or personal reasons, others have that RIGHT. You see in a democratic society, the door swings both ways, and you liberals cannot demand your rights to be repected, when you are unwilling to respect the rights of others. PERIOD......
Mruseurhead - Without you telling me, I could have predicted you'd be one who listened to that wacko, Rush Limbaugh. I can't believe anyone in their right mind listens to him. You are being brainwashed.
As the baby boomers age there are not enough births in this country to sustain the current level of population. I believe that is what this war on women reproductive rights is about. Restrict access not just to abortion, but birth control, and the millionaire and billionaires of the nation will be able to replenish their supply of minimum wage, undereducated and easily manipulated pool of workers in order to continue to line their own pockets.
And for the record, I am against abortion but I do believe in individual choice. I strongly advocate prevention in the fight against abortion!
That argument would make more sense if those restrictions you claim were in place. Unfortunately, abortions are legal, and the last time I checked, condoms and birth control pills are readily available. In most states "the morning after, (opps) pill", is also passed out at your local pharmacy. Hell, they pass out condoms at grade schools at tax payer expense. And a 14 year old girl can get pregnant, have an abotion, and by law the parents won't even be notified. And unless you were born under a rock, everyone knows full well, before commiting the "act", why pregnancy happens in the first place. Billionare's don't force people to drop their drawers, so again WHY are you blaming them for others acting "irresponsibly". As I said, liberals need to focus the "blame" on those who are responsible for having unprotected sex, not place the blame on those unwilling to fund, the act of killing unborn children.
It is annoying when you liberals try to claim that all these women who want, "abortions on demand", as being "victims", who have no responsibility for their actions. It is also annoying your "denial", that the unborn children being killed, are not the true "victims" here.
Mruseurhead..
"not place the blame on those unwilling to fund, the act of killing unborn children"
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First, the term unborn children. Unborn, not alive and not yet children. Under Roe v Wade, the law of the land, not children until 26 weeks. Stop using the term. It's unborn embryo's.
Unless something is done to terminate the unwanted pregnancy, we ALL pay for the child. Typically, it is the young who want abortions. You don't find a whole lot of married and older women running to the clinics. They're smart enough and can afford to buy thier choice of birth control devices. As for the young, if the unwanted pregnancy is not terminated and the pregnant woman cannot afford to provide for the child which is typical, we ALL pay for that child via the cost of providing all needed medical services and the cost of providing food and shelter and all the rest. So either way you are funding the pregnancy and the time thereafter. Your argument is circular.
No, you are wrong I am using the proper term, "fetus" is simply a scientific term for an unborn child. It is scientific terminology for different stages of the development of an unborn child. It was never intended by the scientific community to be used as a term to describe something less than, an unborn child. The term was bastardized by the liberal feminist movement, to try and minimize the reality of what abortion is, and that is the termination of life by aborting (killing) an unborn child. Sorry but murder is murder even if called by another name. And so what if "we all end up paying" for the unwanted children. Maybe if we as a society were forced to pay, maybe we would be less likely to condone the promiscuous behavior rampant in society today. By taking away the threat of an unwanted pregnancy, there is no longer a reason to act responsibly.
First, you said children and not fetus...read your post. They are first zygot's that become emyo's that grow into fetusus. During the first 21 weeks they are non viable outside the womb. These are not children. One day, if born they could become children. No one is killing children as you and all anti abortionists promulgate. Add the fact that that most pro life laws exclude rape and incest as a reason for an abortion and violates a woman's right to privacy and you can take your religious fervor and anger back to wherever you pray and fight it out there. Here in the secular world. where fed funds cannot pay for abortions, it's a federal law, I'd prefer to keep religion out of my government and law and go by what that antiquated document, the Constitution has to say on the subject.
What puzzles me about the abortion issue is this. If it costs $500 to $995 for an abortion under Medicade and $250,000 to raise a welfare baby to the age of 18, and on top of that the child is unwanted and will probably go into foster care which is never good at best, why would they pass such a law. And why does government think it needs to concern itself about what goes on between a woman's legs.
Mruseushead: What happened before is that women went to back alley butchers to get abortions and many of them bled to death from botched abortions. You may be too young to remember that. Women who want an abortion will get one no matter what. We still have choice over our body no matter how much government wants to deny women rights. The abortion laws were changed initially for humanitarian reasons. The conditions of abortion were so heinous.
And so your point is abortions are more "cost efficient" and so you have been able to do the impossible, placing a price on human life. Liberals tout the "women rights" issue but deny the rights of someone who is unable to ask for their rights, and that is the unborn child. You speak about the "heinous conditions" of past abortion practice's, but fail to give a second thought about the "heinous" way an unborn child dies, as it is ripped to pieces by a high powered vacuum. I was born in the 50's and have seen alot in my life, when I was a teenager and attending a local county fair, I visited a "pro-life" exhibit, and pictures of jars filled with tiny limbs, the results of a child being torn out of a womb, by your "professional" means of abortion. And your right, the women who had the abortion done in a "clinic" survived, but from the evidence I saw in the jar, the unborn children didn't fare so well. The women you spoke about had several choices before they chose to get their "back alley" abortions, #1. abstain from sex, #2. use protection, #3. place the child up for adoption. The child was given no choice, it simply died.
One more time, Federal Funds CANNOT pay for abortions.It is a Federal Law. Your're tax payer dollars are not paying for them. What's your point and keep tha religious stuff to yourself.
I realize that you liberals believe in free speech, only if it is your liberal agenda that is allowed to be heard. #1. You are not the boss of me, so kiss my @ss. #2. You are an idiot, because if you used your mind to think of facts instead of trying to tell others what to do, it does not take to much intelligence, although probably way more than you have, to realize if none of Planned Parenthood was funded, whether maintenance cost or whatever, they would have to close their doors and not would not be able to provide abortions. Its called "cooking the books" or "creative financing", tax dollars are being used to finance abortions. So since were playing, who can tell who what to do, "keep your liberal lies" to yourself. And by the way, I am not a particularly religious person, and attend no church, I (unlike you) simply think that it is wrong to kill children, and respect your right not to care.
The Rightwing delusion:
If any money goes to any organization that has anything to do with abortion then by default it goes to abortion. The businesses are not smart enough to be able to keep track of the funds and how they are spent. 70% of PP income comes from donations and only 5% of all their money is used for abortions.
Just like their mantra to get the government out of my personal life and decisions. They fought the HCR bill to the extent that anyone woman who receives even one dollar from any government agency would not be allowed to purchase a health care insurance plan that covered abortions even if she were barren.
The same is true with public sector unions. The Conservatives say that the tax payers pay the union dues because they pay their salary. If you follow this logic then the people that pay taxes also should have a say in any money the government employees spend … which car they can buy, what political party they can contribute to, what religion they can make donations to.
They want the government out of our lives except when the government suites their needs and then they want to take away or limit the rights and freedoms of those that do not agree with them.
Mruseurhead - I was born in 1935 and used abstinence until marriage. There weren't any large families in the town where I was raised so they must have been using birth control. It wasn't something people talked about. During those times abortion was illegal. The people who had them either went to another country if they had the money or they went to a back alley abortionist. My point being that the abortions are going to happen no matter what. Given the choice, since I'm barren and would have loved a child, I probably wouldn't ever have had an abortion, but I defend a woman's choice over her body. I don't think these things should be legislated one way or another. The government needs to get out of people's sex life and bedroom and get on with the business of jobs, the economy, debt ceiling, defict, getting us out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and keep our nose out of other countries.
As you said...it doesn't take too much intelligence to write the crap you wrote. BTW...you are telling others what to do based on your non factual comments. You need to start reading the law and the statutes regarding federal dunding. Kyl had to radact his stements....which were similar to yours....cause they were lies. You own a computer...look this stuff up and stop ranting about a subject you have zero knowledge about or will listen to reasonable comments from the other side.
....and why do you keep referring to everything I say as liberal lies...
Classy comment...kiss my ass.
No less classy than than telling others others what to do and who made you God, and all knowlegable. There is nothing "unfactual" about what I wrote, you claim Federal Funds cannot by law used to fund abortions. I am well aware of the law, but as I said before, if clinics such as Planned Parenthood received no Federal Funding, from Medicaid or other tax supported Federal Agencies, planned Parenthood would not be able to afford to remain open. You just keep spouting your mantra " Federal Law" prohibits it and expect other to believe it outright, without thought, why, because YOU wrote it? Again WHO are YOU????
And if you checked the subject being commented on, the Bill being discussed is insure Medicaid funding is not be to used for abortions. So if what I wrote is untrue, why are pro-choicers screaming about the de-funding?? HELLO, is there anybody in there, the lights are on, all be it dimly.
Hey...I'm here and the lights are shining brightly.
Why you ask? Because it's the only way the poor in this country can get free medical services. Medical services...Planned Parenthood provides free medical services to women including mamograms, gynecological services etc. It's one of the only ways the uninsured can get medical services. Planned Parenthood's abortion activities is only 3% of what they do and NONE of it is from fed funds. Privately funded. Medicare provides a wide variety of medical services to men and women who have no insurance. Medicare is federally funded and, there too, not a cent can be used for abortion. What part of this redundant conversation do you not get. Google, read up on it and stop spouting nonsense. Thanks and have a nice day
Nah. Don't beieve it. I'm wrong. Sorry for confusing you with fact. Have a good delusional day.