Audrey Griffin "Judge blocks Texas from defunding Planned Parenthood"
Judge blocks Texas from defunding Planned Parenthood
Summary: A while ago a video was release by an anti-abortion group supposedly showing a Planned Parenthood employee planning to sell fetal tissue. The activists who released this video to the public were indicted for using fake identification a few months following and the video was never proven to be in any way factual, yet it has often been cited as evidence that Planned Parenthood engages in illegal and immoral activities and therefore should be defunded. However, Houston judge Sam Sparks just ruled in favor of Planned Parenthood, allowing for the Texas chapter to again begin receiving Medicaid funds. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to appeal the ruling.
Analysis: As a pro-choice young woman who lives in Texas it is very encouraging to see decisions like this being made in the current political environment, especially in this state. It makes me sad that a lot of people will believe whatever they see in the news and manipulate it to support anything they believe. It is already law that none of the government funding Planned Parenthood is allowed to go towards abortion in any way, shape, or form. Even besides that, abortion is an extremely small portion of the function the organization plays. This can be synthesized to the recent presidential election, with President Trump's pro-life rhetoric and the fact that a big reason Trump won the election was due to the dispersal of false information about both candidates through the internet.
It's amazing the lengths people will go to to prove their point.
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