When playing "The Game", I prefer to start with facts, then point out the obvious Elephants in the room. Since Texas is a one-party state, for reasons beyond me, we can pretty much look at the same Elephant this entire time and the magnicificent beast is the Texas GOP.
So, let's go to the elephant's mouth:
http://oig.hhsc.state.tx.us/
So, what the GOPers do not realized is that very recently all Texas data is being reported publicly and archived not only by the offices involved, but by the Internetz as well. Have you seen our work on Texas Officer Related Injury Report?
Here is what we want:
http://oig.hhsc.state.tx.us/...
Download and save, search for Planned Parent Hood. Search for Gulf Coast, the Planned Parenthood who supposedly slinging baby parts like tacos after midnight. Not a single Planned Parenthood location or personal is listed in the exclude list.
This is important, because that was supposedly the basis for yesterday's GOPnacht across Texas.
Texas Cuts off Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood
By WILL WEISSERT, ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN, Texas — Oct 19, 2015
http://abcnews.go.com/...
Texas health officials sent a letter to Planned Parenthood affiliates saying the clinics were potentially "liable, directly or by affiliation, for a series of serious Medicaid program violations" highlighted in the videos.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered an investigation after the footage, which Congress also is investigating, was released by an anti-abortion group that alleges Planned Parenthood illegally sold fetal tissue for profit.
Planned Parenthood blasted the decision, noting that thousands of women seek non-abortion health care services through Medicaid at its clinics statewide. The organization also has denied allegations levied by the Center for Medical Progress, saying the videos were deceptively edited.
"It is completely outrageous that Texas officials are using these thoroughly discredited, fraudulent videos to cut women off from preventive health care, including cancer screenings, HIV testing, and birth control," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement.
If there were serious violations the Inspector General Office would place Planned Parenthood and all associated personal on the Exclusion list, by law. Inspector General Bowen updated the list October 12, 2015, where is the evidence? There are no entries for Planned Parenthood or their personal because there are no violations.
This is all an extensive lie.
See, Inspector Bowen and Gov Abbot know federal law prohibits defunding abortion providers from Medicaid which is why they are going the Exclusion route based on baby selling.
Literally selling baby. Only Hot Wheels.
So now we know two things:
1) The Governor and Inspector General are lying every time they say Planned Parenthood or personal is Excluded from Medicaid per their own Exclusion list. This is most likely because they know they can be sued for tangible reasons instead of the intangible lawsuit they want to challene Roe vs Wade.
Forget you not this one thing, all this is about getting a court case to challenge Roe vs Wade. The other side is serious, they have a 50-state plan and they want this as one the major issues in the Presidential race next year.
2) Abbot and Bowen based their raid on a video from a discredited propaganda house using 15 year old discredited propaganda that has already made the journey to a congressional hearing once where the evidence was laughingly discredited
Let's think about that for moment. The GOP broke HIPAA law and disrupted business based on a fake video from known discredited propagandists. The GOP is really just trying to scare up a Scarlet Letter list, because they are that dark agers.
The GOP Dark Agers have been at this all summer.
State Leaders Order Investigations Into Fetal Organ Preservation
by Edgar Walters July 15, 2015
http://www.texastribune.org/...
After an anti-abortion group on Tuesday released an undercover video showing an executive at Planned Parenthood discussing how to preserve an aborted fetus’s organs for medical research, Gov. Greg Abbott announced an investigation into the alleged practice.
“The video of a high-level Planned Parenthood executive discussing the details of internal abortion procedures — including harvesting of baby body parts — is unnerving and appalling,” Abbott said in a statement. “In light of the video, I have directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to conduct an immediate investigation of this alleged practice in addition to a separate investigation ordered by the Texas Office of the Attorney General.”
LOL WUT. Again? Are we seriously doing this again.
I am the Pepperridge Farm of Texas, the Donkey of the Lone Star Farm, I remember.
Heck, I'll even use J.C. Willke, former President of the National Right to Life Committee in a piece he wrote in 1999 and is still present on his Life Issues Institute website which is cohort in the whole fake video fiasco with the rebranded Center for Medical Progress.
It's the same knuckleheads, anyway, here's abortion wonderwall:
Baby Parts for Sale
A batch of eyes by UPS – 30 livers by FedEx
By J. C. Willke, MD,
Life Issues Connector: July 1999
http://www.lifeissues.org/...
After fighting abortion for 30 years I thought I had seen and heard it all, but not so. Here is a new development, a coordinated high-tech industry functioning for the specific purpose of obtaining and selling high-quality fetal organs for research.
Partial-Birth abortions seemed to be so horrible that most of us wondered how such procedures could be defended. Many of us chalked it up to the fact that the pro-abortion advocates and the abortion industry didn't want to give one inch for fear that their whole house of cards will fold. I, among others, felt that their resistance to forbidding this gruesome procedure was a fear of a domino effect. If we stopped this one, then we'd stop the next and the next and the next and they didn't want it to start. But now we have evidence of a very clear additional reason why they want these late-term abortions to continue. The reason is that this is the one method that gives them intact fetal bodies from which they can obtain organs for research.
The story was broken recently by Life Dynamics under the guidance of its director, Mark Crutcher. A lady came to him with a story, which he has verified. The name of the informant cannot be revealed, as she is still involved in the work that she has exposed. Her story is dramatically recorded in a video just released by Life Dynamics. In it, this woman under the pseudonym, Kelly, tells her story. Her back is to the camera and her voice is electronically altered to prevent her identification. She worked for “an outside source, hired with a team to go in [to late term abortion clinics] to dissect and procure fetal tissue for high-quality sales.” Read on as Kelly describes her macabre profession. “What we did was to have a contract with an abortion clinic that would allow us to go there on certain days. We would get a generated list each day to tell us what tissue researchers, pharmaceutical companies and universities were looking for. Then we would examine the patient charts. We would screen out the ones we didn't want.
Mark Crutcher is a known liar from Denton, Texas. He will lie and say anything to put abortionists in a bad light. He has been several discredited as Mark Crutcher would claim in 1999 that:
“We would sell the tissue to private contractors. They in turn would sell to other universities and researchers. There was a high demand every week to buy such fetal tissues. It was shipped by UPS, FedEx, Airborne and sometimes by special couriers. Sometimes we would take the specimen in a box to the airport and put it on as regular cargo, to be picked up at the destination.” And did these shipping companies know they were transporting baby parts? “No. All they knew was that it was just human cells. But it could be a completely intact fetus. It might be a batch of eyes, or 30 or 40 livers going out that day, or thymuses
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And then the obvious question. Kelly is still working for this company, so why did she come and tell this story to a pro-life group? One day when she was working, “A set of twins at 24 weeks gestation was brought to us in a pan. They were both alive. The doctor came back and said, `Got you some good specimens, twins.' I looked at him and said, `There's something wrong here. They are moving. I don't do this. This is not in my contract.' I told him I would not be part of taking their lives. So he took a bottle of sterile water and poured it in the pan until the fluid came up over their mouths and noses, letting them drown. I left the room because I could not watch this.” But she did go back and dissect them after they were dead. She said, “That's when I decided it was wrong. I did not want to be there when that happened.” And then it happened again and again. “At 16 weeks, all the way up to sometimes even 30 weeks, and we had live births come back to us.” And then? “Then the doctor would either break the neck or take a pair of tongs and beat the fetus until it was dead.”
That story sound familiar? It should, it is the same story the Center for Medical Progress is peddle. Know why? I bet you do. That's right, Mark Crutcher is the spiritual godfather of CMP's videos, they even said as much!
David Daleiden: Why the Catholic man behind the Planned Parenthood videos went undercover
By Patti Armstrong - Catholic News Agency - Wednesday, July 22, 2015
http://www.washingtontimes.com/...
In 2013, at the age of 24, Mr. Daleiden founded the CMP to investigate in-depth bioethical issues. “Human Capital” is its first project.
Part of the preparation for the project included studying Life Dynamics’ research from 15 years ago. That organization, founded in Texas in 1992 by Mark Crutcher, had paid an employee of a fetal tissue-collection organization to provide evidence of illegal practices at a Planned Parenthood facility in Overland Park, Kan.
The story got the attention of ABC’s 20/20 and a congressional investigation was opened. But it soon became politicized and poorly managed, so the issue was dropped.
Mr. Daleiden said that became a learning experience for the “Human Capital” investigation. “There was plenty of evidence, but because they [Life Dynamics] went after the middleman and the investigation fell apart, Planned Parenthood got away.”
No, Life Dynamics did not fail because they went after the middleman, they failed because it was obvious the tape had been edited and their source paid to lie:
Abortion foes’ dirty tactics
KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI SATURDAY, NOV 4, 2006
http://www.salon.com/...
Life Dynamics is the same group that in the late ’90s promoted the myth that abortion providers illicitly traffic in the sale of fetal tissue. In March 2000, sparked by a report on “20/20″ that included the Life Dynamics claim, Congress launched an investigation of the supposed traffic. But the inquiry floundered when the star witness, a medical technician, admitted under oath that he’d lied on camera to “20/20″ about witnessing fetal tissue smuggling and that he had been paid more than $20,000 by Life Dynamics. “By the end of the hearing, even the legislators who were opposed to choice said that Life Dynamics had no credibility,” says Vicky Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation.
So Governor Abbot, Inspector Bowen and Mr. Daleiden think Texans can't remember 20 years ago or can't use The Google.
Wrong Hot Wheels.
Center for Medical Progress is literally peddling a 20 year old lie. The same lie Congress investigated 15 years ago and found nothing and will find nothing today.
This is about the hard-religious right usurping rule of law to install a Theocratic system on women's health. For reasons beyond me, the Talibaptist of Texas are intent on not letting working class women have access to quality healthcare.
Maybe they all have serious Mommy issues or are fascinated with women's vaginas to the point they find it scary and therefor banned, banned I say!
Dark agers all.
So to wrap up the wondering rant:
1) This is a 20 year old tactic by the exact same knuckleheads
2) Planned Parenthood and none of the personal are on the official Excluded list
3) The raid the Inspector Generator conducted yesterday was based on the 20 year old propaganda that got a recent High-Def remake
4) Governor Abbot's new nickname is Hot Wheel because he has denied services to accessibility needs Texans in the rural hinterlands
Any Texas Democrat of note, especially say a Castro or such, should really point these realities out and drive home the fact that by law, since Planned Parenthood is not on the Exclude list, they cannot be defunded.
It is time for Hot Wheels and Inspector Bowen to put up or shut up.
The Texas GOP is entering a dark realm even for them. RickPerry was a jack ass, but based in reality and law. The Abbot Regime is based on absolutely nothing. Not even written record.
Abbot either believes his own lies or has realized he is now trapped by a base that is to ignorant to realize the Texas GOP is lying to them, or want to be leave the lies about Planned Parenthood so badly to validate some internal hatred they have disconnected with reality and basic rule of law.
Faith-based governing if you will.
Otherwise known as Theocracy.
And that's exactly what yesterday day was, a Talibaptist theocratic raid on Planned Parenthood because the Texans working their did not adhere to the Talibaptist GOP's religious beliefs.
Dark road indeed Hot Wheels, but you have gotten the attention of the old school leftist populists. We ain't like progressives, we got a fiddle in the band. You have done messed with Texas women. And no matter how far the Texas boy roams, it's them Texas women who bring us home.
And you are trying to put a scarlet letter on our yellow roses. Not on my watch. And prepare thy butt Hotwheels, my watch has just begun.
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