Obama Administration Rejects Indiana’s Ban on Medicaid at Planned Parenthood

The Republican Party’s total war on women’s rights suffers a setback
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Indiana’s GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels tried to pull a fast one and ban the use of Medicaid funds at Planned Parenthood clinics, because as we all know, the best way to help the economy and create jobs is to take away women’s reproductive rights and destroy Planned Parenthood.

Ahem.

Today the Obama administration rejected Indiana’s ban and informed Daniels of something he probably already knew: that this far right legislation violates federal law.

In a letter to Patricia Casanova, director of the state Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning, Dr. Donald Berwick, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that Indiana’s ban violated a provision of the law allowing that “beneficiaries may obtain covered services from any qualified provider that undertakes to provide such services.”

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1 darthstar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:41:01pm

Yay!

2 Kragar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:41:03pm

ITS LIKE HE DOESN’T EVEN CARE ABOUT GOD’S PLAN!

Thank Crom.

3 Obdicut  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:41:08pm

Cue “states’ rights!” blather.

4 freetoken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:42:46pm

Surely there will be GOP Presidential candidates which will try to use this as part of their anti-Obama-at-all-costs platform. Question is, who will be first? (Bachmann?)

5 windsagio  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:42:53pm

Dude’s got his eye on the ball, gotta admit. Imagine the crazed focus it takes to stay after PP for 40 years.

6 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:45:06pm

Obama wants to take away your right to choose your own doctor!

Oh, wait.

7 Kragar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:46:28pm

Next up, Indiana changes the regulations for what is considered a “qualified provider.”

8 makeitstop  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:49:03pm

re: #7 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Next up, Indiana changes the regulations for what is considered a “qualified provider.”

You know there’s an end-run in the works. Hopefully, that’ll get smacked down, too.

9 freetoken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:49:48pm

Not really off topic… a press release that’s got wide coverage today:


Early hominin landscape use

So far, ranging and residence patterns amongst early hominins have been indirectly inferred from morphology, stone tool sourcing, comparison to living primates and phylogenetic models. An international team of researchers including Sandi Copeland, Vaughan Grimes and Michael Richards of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig/Germany have now investigated landscape use in Australopithecus africanus (with fossils from sites dating between 2.8-2.0 million years ago) and Paranthropus robustus (with fossils from sites dating between 1.9-1.4 million years ago) from the Sterkfontein and Swartkrans cave sites in South Africa using strontium isotope analysis. This method helps identify the geological substrate on which an animal lived during tooth mineralization. (Nature, June 2nd, 2011)

The researchers show that a high proportion of small, but not large, hominin teeth had non-local strontium isotope compositions. Given the relatively high levels of sexual dimorphism in early hominins, the smaller teeth probably represent females, indicating that females were more likely than males to disperse from their natal (i.e. where they were born) groups. This is similar to the dispersal pattern found in chimpanzees, bonobos, and many human groups, but dissimilar to that of most gorillas and other primates.

[…]

So, our ancestors had a lot more in common with chimpanzees than we’ve known before.

Why is this not off-topic?

A non-trivial portion, indeed a big share, of the Abrahamic religions is concerned with… sex. Yes, really.

The attack on Planned Parenthood is, I offer, about sex. Or more completely, about how PP breaks the sexual taboos of certain ancient religions.

Accepting that we really are primates, and that sex is part of our being of the Animalia kingdom, would go a long way to releasing the tension around these issues.

10 b_sharp  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:50:21pm

re: #4 freetoken

Surely there will be GOP Presidential candidates which will try to use this as part of their anti-Obama-at-all-costs platform. Question is, who will be first? (Bachmann?)

It’s been shown that the subconscious brain makes a decision first and the conscious brain catches up shortly after. This means that crap can escape an orifice, based on a decision made by the subconscious brain, before the conscious brain can analyze and potentially stop the crap from flowing. The quicker the conscious brain, the more rational the decision.

What does that say about people like Bachmann?

11 anonymous gun expert  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:52:14pm

I would go with “the govt. is forcing planned parenthood down our throats” but that doesn’t sound right

12 freetoken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:52:37pm

re: #10 b_sharp

What does that say about people like Bachmann?

Australopithecus

13 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:53:54pm

re: #12 freetoken

Australopithecus

Missing Blink.

14 b_sharp  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:54:02pm

re: #12 freetoken

Australopithecus

ROTFLMAO!

You’ve been reading my mind.

15 b_sharp  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:54:40pm

BBL

16 Jack Burton  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:55:47pm

re: #2 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

ITS LIKE HE DOESN’T EVEN CARE ABOUT GOD’S PLAN!

Thank Crom.

Isn’t he a compound interest program? Kind of bloat-ware? Cant play games for nothing?

17 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:56:10pm

re: #9 freetoken

Our social structure changed an awful lot when we settled down and started “owning” land and beasts.

When children were raised jointly by the entire clan which was migratory and held no land or animals, paternity was not such a vital issue, it was in the interest of the entire group to see that as many children as possible survived.

But when it came to the matter of inheriting property, then paternity became a major issue: who was to inherit the property? I am sure tht is the basis behind the moral strictures that were adopted by these people who were just coming from the nomadic to a settled way of life.

18 freetoken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:02:56pm

re: #17 ralphieboy

I’ve always presumed that the paternal domination of land inheritance since the development of agriculture was just the transition from the tribal property claims of the roaming primate groups, whose defense is left to the larger male members of the group. So maleness == territory.

Anyway, back to PP. I’m not a fan of abortion, but few people really are. Yet I also know that women need reproductive health care more than men, and PP can provide it, especially in areas otherwise poorly served by the commercial medical industry. I find the attack on PP by the American right-wing to be a combination of a subversive and overt attacks of women in this country.

19 freetoken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:03:55pm

re: #18 freetoken

PIMF “on women”

20 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:05:29pm

These people are not just against Planned Parentood as an institution, they are against the very concept of planned parenthood.

21 prairiefire  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:07:31pm

More bad Medicaid news for the Republicans. Everybody hates the Ryan budget:[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com…]

22 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:07:58pm

Meanwhile, Drudge Report is totally ignoring the Weiner story.

That’s very odd. Something’s up.

23 darthstar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:08:59pm

re: #22 Charles

Meanwhile, Drudge Report is totally ignoring the Weiner story.

That’s very odd. Something’s up.

Drudge ignoring Weiner? That’s not normal for him.

24 Obdicut  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:09:27pm

re: #22 Charles

Not just jealousy? Doesn’t he have some sort of man-spat with Brietbart?

25 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:09:51pm

re: #22 Charles

Meanwhile, Drudge Report is totally ignoring the Weiner story.

That’s very odd. Something’s up.

Did he ever cover it? Most of his weekend coverage was scary black people stuff. Maybe he’s bailing.

26 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:10:01pm

Of course, as soon as I post that, I go there and discover that he now has some articles linked. But it’s not the big story, which is still very odd. These kinds of trashy scandals are Drudge’s meat and potatoes.

27 darthstar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:10:15pm

re: #21 prairiefire

More bad Medicaid news for the Republicans. Everybody hates the Ryan budget:[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com…]

It’s what the Republicans in congress think that matters. The voters only need to know that the communist secular gays will get them if they don’t elect more Republicans…beyond that, they’re irrelevant.
/

28 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:10:45pm

re: #22 Charles

Meanwhile, Drudge Report is totally ignoring the Weiner story.

That’s very odd. Something’s up.

He has three links up, all on the question of whether or not the Representative can say if it’s his picture or not.

I do have to agree that this poor man has probably endured a lifetime of teasing over his last name, which if I recall correctly means “Person from Vienna” (According to an Austrian friend of mine, who used to like to giggle that her boyfriend was a “Wiener,” because he was from Wien.”)

29 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:11:00pm

Dudge has 2 stories at the top of the center column

IT MIGHT BE MY WEINER!

‘This Could Be The End For Him’…

‘Have You Ever Taken A Picture Like This Of Yourself?’…

30 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:11:37pm

re: #27 darthstar

communist Islamist secular gays will get them if they don’t elect more Republicans.
/

31 dragonfire1981  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:12:54pm

What’s sad about this is that in taking this totally logical and expected action, they’ve played right into the GOP’s hands, because now the right wingers can just claim that Big, Bad Barack and all his socialist buddies in Washington are doing everything they can to “Destroy America.”

Sigh.

32 darthstar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:14:28pm

re: #28 EmmmieG

He has three links up, all on the question of whether or not the Representative can say if it’s his picture or not.

I do have to agree that this poor man has probably endured a lifetime of teasing over his last name, which if I recall correctly means “Person from Vienna” (According to an Austrian friend of mine, who used to like to giggle that her boyfriend was a “Wiener,” because he was from Wien.”)

This means nothing to me…

33 researchok  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:15:37pm

See Locker’s latest page:

Scorn slinging is profitable but morally bankrupt

Great read.

34 researchok  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:23:47pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

Dudge has 2 stories at the top of the center column

I was surprised to see CNN’s Jack Cafferty slam Weiner. He really ripped into him.

Our world.

37 Obdicut  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:27:05pm

re: #35 Stanley Sea

Too bad they couldn’t avoid that whole ‘whore’ thing.

38 TedStriker  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:27:30pm

re: #23 darthstar

Drudge ignoring Weiner? That’s not normal for him.

*rimshot*

39 darthstar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:27:41pm

re: #35 Stanley Sea

Check out the welcome the heathens in NYC left on Sister Sarah’s bus!!!

Cool that they took a picture of it, and that it wasn’t actual “vandalism” (like spray painting her bus with “media whore” - that would simply get her more sympathy from her handlers at Fox.

40 makeitstop  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:28:14pm
41 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:29:01pm

Sorry to go OT early, but this guy is a bad ass!!

I’ve been through five deployments. I’ve fought the Muqtada militia, everybody you can think of, so weapons getting pointed at me, it doesn’t really bother me anymore,” he said. “I took the weapon away from him and put him on the ground and the rest was history.”

Heh. He was also offered a job with the Sarasota PD after he gets out.

[Link: www.myfoxtampabay.com…]

42 darthstar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:29:50pm

re: #37 Obdicut

Too bad they couldn’t avoid that whole ‘whore’ thing.

It gives Sarah something to focus on…”they called me a whore, in front of my CHILDREN! One of whom is DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED! And another is AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN!” She loves a good dip in the pool of sympathy.

43 makeitstop  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:32:51pm

re: #42 darthstar

She loves a good dip in the pool of sympathy martyrdom.

FTFY.

44 Obdicut  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:33:06pm

re: #41 Cannadian Club Akbar

Heh. I don’t approve of vigilantism in general, but that dude obviously has both the expertise and the drive. Make him a cop, ‘cuz he ain’t going to stop doing that otherwise.

45 engineer cat  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:33:47pm

i support plant parenthood

vegetables have rights too ya know

46 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:37:49pm

It’s odd that Daniels went after PP funding since he was the guy who said the GOP should declare a truce over social issues so they could focus more on the economy. He got slammed by the “base” for it, of course. Didn’t he also announce he wasn’t interested in running for POTUS in 2012? Has he changed his mind on that?

47 researchok  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:39:48pm

re: #46 funky chicken

It’s odd that Daniels went after PP funding since he was the guy who said the GOP should declare a truce over social issues so they could focus more on the economy. He got slammed by the “base” for it, of course. Didn’t he also announce he wasn’t interested in running for POTUS in 2012? Has he changed his mind on that?

Right now, I think Daniels would equivocate if you asked him what the time was.

He’s looking to see which way the wind is blowing.

Shocking, isn’t it?

48 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:40:01pm

re: #44 Obdicut

Although not in the story, the gunman threatened his oldest son. Dude wasn’t happy.

49 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:41:16pm

re: #45 engineer dog

i support plant parenthood

vegetables have rights too ya know

What about the carrots?

50 calochortus  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:41:24pm

re: #46 funky chicken

It’s odd that Daniels went after PP funding since he was the guy who said the GOP should declare a truce over social issues so they could focus more on the economy. He got slammed by the “base” for it, of course. Didn’t he also announce he wasn’t interested in running for POTUS in 2012? Has he changed his mind on that?

He said he’s not running because his wife and daughters didn’t want him to.

51 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:42:11pm

re: #50 calochortus

He said he’s not running because his wife and daughters didn’t want him to.

Very plausible.

52 calochortus  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:42:19pm

re: #50 calochortus

re: #50 calochortus

re: #50 calochortus

Hit ‘post’ too soon. I haven’t heard anything about him changing his mind.

53 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:42:28pm

re: #29 Killgore Trout

As for the last question, no I have never taken a pic of my underwear, or let someone else take a pic of me in my underwear, or naked. I tell my kids over and over and over…never, never pose for anything like this, and never, never take your pic like that. My son has lots of fb friends who have taken pictures of themselves in bikini suits in their bathroom mirrors (?) and posted them online. I just don’t get it. With all the creeps out there, what are they thinking?

54 calochortus  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:43:02pm

re: #51 Cannadian Club Akbar

Very. I wouldn’t want to be married to a presidential candidate.

55 webevintage  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:43:23pm

YEAH for HHS…..

(Am I the only one who thinks the Weiner weiner picture looks odd…like it is growing out of his right hip?)

56 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:44:17pm

re: #53 funky chicken

It gets worse. There are parents who encourage their teen and preteen girls to pose in bathing suits, which get posted online, hoping they get a modeling contract.

57 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:50:45pm

re: #3 Obdicut

Cue “states’ rights!” blather.

Then re cue: federal powers smackdown. Right on to that.

58 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:53:02pm

Obama loves abortionists

59 funky chicken  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:53:24pm

re: #55 webevintage

YEAH for HHS…

(Am I the only one who thinks the Weiner weiner picture looks odd…like it is growing out of his right hip?)

I was thinking tennis ball myself. Or unfortunate hernia.

60 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:55:02pm

re: #28 EmmmieG

He has three links up, all on the question of whether or not the Representative can say if it’s his picture or not.

I do have to agree that this poor man has probably endured a lifetime of teasing over his last name, which if I recall correctly means “Person from Vienna” (According to an Austrian friend of mine, who used to like to giggle that her boyfriend was a “Wiener,” because he was from Wien.”)

I think with that spelling it’s more related to wine. Like, wine-merchant?

61 wrenchwench  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:55:41pm

re: #58 ralphieboy

Obama loves abortionists women

ftfy

62 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 3:56:51pm

re: #42 darthstar

It gives Sarah something to focus on…”they called me a whore, in front of my CHILDREN! One of whom is DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED! And another is AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN!” She loves a good dip in the pool of sympathy.

Yeah and just where IS Baby Trig, these days? Gone are the endless photo ops of him as a stand-in for a flour sack.

63 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:00:19pm

re: #36 researchok

My take

Wow, Townhall published that? I know the mainstream cons are starting to really despise her, but dang.

64 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:01:57pm

re: #62 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin


I am glad that he is being left out of the family circus

65 researchok  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:04:36pm

re: #63 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Wow, Townhall published that? I know the mainstream cons are starting to really despise her, but dang.

Townhall publishes lots of stuff like that.

66 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:04:46pm

re: #64 ralphieboy

I bet he is, too. Poor little buddy, having to be born into a family of hams like that.

67 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:08:20pm
68 ProBosniaLiberal  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:09:46pm

re: #67 Cannadian Club Akbar

While what they are saying is true, I very much dislike Accuweather.

There is a second disturbance in the Caribbean.

69 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:11:54pm

re: #68 ProLifeLiberal

While what they are saying is true, I very much dislike Accuweather.

There is a second disturbance in the Caribbean.


more political turmoil at our doorstep?

70 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:12:14pm

re: #68 ProLifeLiberal

While what they are saying is true, I very much dislike Accuweather.

There is a second disturbance in the Caribbean.

I know about the Caribbean. These guys are the best about storms.
[Link: www.fsu.edu…]

71 Cannadian Club Akbar  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:18:36pm

bbl.

72 TedStriker  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:25:11pm

re: #62 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

That’s not cool at all…Sarah may be an execrable POS that never saw a photo/media op she didn’t like, but bringing the kids who can’t defend themselves (Trig and/or Piper) into arguments about her is dirty pool.

73 Skeetghazi  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:31:54pm

re: #50 calochortus

He said he’s not running because his wife and daughters didn’t want him to.

Kind of a weird story w/his wife. She left him & the kids, got remarried iirc, then came back. Prime for sleaze attack.

74 researchok  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:38:16pm

re: #73 Stanley Sea

Kind of a weird story w/his wife. She left him & the kids, got remarried iirc, then came back. Prime for sleaze attack.

Huge bullseye target

75 b_sharp  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:43:04pm

re: #17 ralphieboy

Our social structure changed an awful lot when we settled down and started “owning” land and beasts.

When children were raised jointly by the entire clan which was migratory and held no land or animals, paternity was not such a vital issue, it was in the interest of the entire group to see that as many children as possible survived.

But when it came to the matter of inheriting property, then paternity became a major issue: who was to inherit the property? I am sure tht is the basis behind the moral strictures that were adopted by these people who were just coming from the nomadic to a settled way of life.

Very similar to my own ideas.

76 TedStriker  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:45:05pm

re: #62 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

re: #72 talon_262

After careful rereading of your post, OCIHACOSP, it dawned on me that you weren’t really picking on Trig, but commenting on how Trig was with Sarah at almost every public appearance during the 2008 election season. Geez, I’m a bit dense today…

With that, I concur with your question, because while I’m appreciative that Trig is out of the spotlight, I’m curious how he’s doing; for all of Sarah’s flaws and foibles, I hope her and Todd are taking good care of him (which they most likely have).

77 Obdicut  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:45:57pm

re: #76 talon_262

Talon, you’re a hell of a dude. I dig your style, man.

78 calochortus  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:48:09pm

re: #73 Stanley Sea

Kind of a weird story w/his wife. She left him & the kids, got remarried iirc, then came back. Prime for sleaze attack.

Yes, yes it is. At least if he doesn’t run it remains their own business.

79 b_sharp  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:52:19pm

re: #45 engineer dog

i support plant parenthood

vegetables have rights too ya know

D’oh!
Donuts are people too.

80 zora  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 4:57:42pm

re: #22 Charles

i read where rush seemed to have brushed off the whole mess. even he won’t cosign this bull.

81 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 6:17:42pm

re: #72 talon_262

Did you say the same thing to #42? The post was in response to that. #42 was obviously parody.

82 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin  Wed, Jun 1, 2011 6:20:10pm

re: #76 talon_262

re: #72 talon_262

After careful rereading of your post, OCIHACOSP, it dawned on me that you weren’t really picking on Trig, but commenting on how Trig was with Sarah at almost every public appearance during the 2008 election season. Geez, I’m a bit dense today…

With that, I concur with your question, because while I’m appreciative that Trig is out of the spotlight, I’m curious how he’s doing; for all of Sarah’s flaws and foibles, I hope her and Todd are taking good care of him (which they most likely have).

Every so often there are pictures of him, though not as many as the other kids. Makes sense, since he’s so little. I’m actually a big fan of his.


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