The attacks on Planned Parenthood, whose efforts in women's health include 97% of their activities as normal health care for poor and indigent women, are a clear waste of virtually everyone's time. The problem is that the attacks keep popping up and wasting our time, not to mention putting people into situations where they need the help and no one is there to help.
So why the attacks? Because the other 3% involves anything from just information about abortion, to actually providing abortion services for those in need, which is, once again, a specific person's health care rights.
Now let's just sit back and think about that for a minute. We're not talking about some type of leniency supposedly given on abortions subjects because they are illegal.
No, we're talking about presenting abortion, yet once again, as if it is, in fact, illegal.
So let us say this out loud. Planned Parenthood fosters nor commits any illegal acts, follows the law and does so in compliance with all the laws of all the states in the nation, but also they adhere to all Federal Laws.
Why people still believe that abortion is illegal I don't know, but the fact is that the people espousing their undying hate for abortion providers seem to more easily break the laws than those simply trying to provide women's reproductive health care. People, mostly doctors, have been murdered as if they are fair game for providing health care services, which are legal in all 50 states.
However, all of the murders committed by anti-abortion forces are illegal in all 50 states, and in fact, all of the world. How anyone can justify the murder of a single person in support of the sanctity of life just doesn't make sense.
Now events have continued to evolve in this Komen/Planned Parenthood situation, the results being that the Komen Foundation have backed off their original premise and reinstated the donations they have been providing.
I see no reason for the Komen Foundation to any longer be trusted in their efforts to provide women's reproductive health care because they can obviously be influenced by the darker side of anti-abortionist.
How not? This is an obvious invasion of a Foundation which has done good work in a field that is totally legal, and that invasion of anti-abortion sentiment had severely damaged the Foundation's reputation and made their actions suspect. Either there will be watchdogs constantly paying attention to them, or they have destroyed a Foundation whose provided services have protected millions of women's reproductive health care.
Whomever designed this little effort to deny women their rights to legal health care obviously had more ambition than brains.
The battles have been fought on the Federal level and abortions are legal. Congress battled for years and have been able to place roadblocks on taxpayer dollars being used for a woman's reproductive health, but still abortions are legal.
And so the religious right have done everything they can to reverse established law, becoming almost terrorists in their efforts and apparently lack of concern for life, all in the name of fighting to be able to be called pro-life.
The Republicans have, for 30 years, been on the attack against anything that provides women with their full rights in a country where the women have a 53% majority of all voters. Just the search for the right words to describe a clearly defined ideological difference has played a part of the rest of their agenda.
Rather than accepting what has been re-affirmed as legal for at least 40 years and moving on, they continue to fight the same battles using different words to describe the same disdain for the rule of law.
Having gone through all of there efforts in the Federal and state law to overturn Roe v Wade, they have succumbed to tactics to again create a divisive environment which supposes that abortions are illegal. So they infiltrate all avenues even unto having an adverse effect on the ability of a Foundation to provide donations' distribution and, in effect, taking away the rights of those who have donated money to help supply women with their reproductive medical rights.
This is the point of the entire conversation, which is the ability of some to manipulate or outright deny the rights of others, and it appears that some simply revel in the ability to do so.
The evidence is simply too large to ignore. The 2010 midterm results created a Republican rush on the State level to institute new laws by hook or by crook, using tactics worthy of all of the crony institutions which, over the years, have been supposedly abolished in the 50s and 60s.
Just recently a Congressional committee public hearing on natural gas fracking was turned on its head by the Committee chairman denying America citizens the right to film the proceedings. Since we're talking about Congress, and we're talking about public hearings, all of this will be covered by C-Span and be available in their video archives, but our aging or stagnant Republicans believe they still have the power to stifle the power of the people by using stupid delaying tactics.
Instead of creating an environment where they control everything in secrecy, they simply bring it more forcefully to the attention of the public. Natural gas fracking isn't any different than the sanctity of a woman's right to reproductive health. Both are efforts to support the ideology of one group of people to control the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans.
In the case of this one Committee chairman, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), we have an obvious and unacceptable effort to deny an American the rights he was given by the Constitution. Josh Fox's original Gasland documentary should not have created a situation where Mr. Fox was handcuffed and physically removed from a Congressional hearing because one Republican had the power to step on Josh's rights.
And the same efforts to step on Josh Fox's rights is the same effort now promoted by the infiltration of the religious right into institutions who truly care about their efforts to apply the rights of all under the Constitution.
Let's get this straight. Congress has the right to call recipients of government funds to testify as to the dispersal of those funds, and that is fine. It does not represent an official Congressional investigation into any sort of wrongdoing unless one were to get a subpoena stating that such an investigation was for the purpose of determining the extent of any criminal acts using taxpayer funds.
The fact that such a Congressional committee brought forth a hearing just prior to the fact that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation determined that they would stop funding any organization under federal investigation simply defies logic. The timing is simply too close to have been a couple of disparate actions falling into place in such a manner as has panned out. And only one word defines all of the subsequent actions.
There has not been any investigation. There has only been calling for a Congressional Committee hearing orchestrated by one Republican Representative from Maryland. This man's constituency is about 712,000 Marylanders, yet he is willing to use his power to adversely affect millions of Americans from the entire country.
This seems somewhat of a stretch to me on how one should wield the power of a single Representative, regardless of his place in the Republican political circle.
So what it shows to me is that the Republicans will continue to fight this fight no matter how far down into the depths of depravity they have to descend.
In the meantime, with no net gain or loss, the Republicans continue to fight the fight that was fought and decided in the US Supreme Court in the 1973 Roe v Wade battle.
Perhaps they are just trying to tie up the US Supreme Court by continuing to test law that has already been decided.
The Supreme Court has not taken up the mantle of being a bastion of Republican law, but American law.
Come on guys. Everyone is watching and there are no closed mics nor video cameras that aren't running. If you say something or have questionable actions taking place on your command, you are responsible for the repurcussions.
