Arizona Takes A Big Step Back. WARNING, GRAPHIC!

[HairOfTheDog]

That's just ignorant, especially in this broken health care system. You shouldn't have to give up your house and job because you get sick.

It's a neocon knee jerk to suggest that there shouldnt be universal health care in this country, and btw VERY LITTLE MONEY that flows to PP goes to abortions.

Wish you lefties would become a little more ambidextrous, might make it easier to discuss this without it becoming polarized.

I'll repeat it for the slow and retarded, cutting off PP funding doesn't change the level of abortions around the country (which is minimal) doesn't stop the law of the land from being the law of the land. All it does is prevent women from getting decent healthcare.

It would be nice if you troglodytes could stick to the discussion, which is about what happens when you deny a woman the basic right to health care simply because she cannot afford it, to a stupid morality equation involving abortion equals womenarewhores.

It's quite ignorant.

Let's stay away from the topic of universal health care as well then - if we want to stick strictly to the topic in the OP.

Yes, you are correct. Cutting off tax funding for PP in Arizona does not DIRECTLY affect women's access to abortions. Those tax contributions are NOT used for abortion services anyway.

Reading the OP, the message is clear, imo. Governor Brewer wants to weaken PP because it is the largest abortion provider in the country. She is anti-abortion and she is making a strong political statement. Although the state tax dollars don't fund abortions, they strengthen PP's ability to operate as a whole (which includes their abortion services operations). In order to propopate her anti-abortion agenda and weaken PP, she is denying a large group of women access to birth control, female testing, and family planning education services. In so doing, she is robbing Peter to pay Paul imo; some or all (or more) of those saved tax dollars will go towards supporting children born of women who were denied PP's birth control and planning services, imo.

Ms. Brewer made this a moral and political issue without regard for female/family health. She is not alone; other states have done the same. While PP is the intended target because it is an abortion provider, it is my opinion that the low-income women and families of the state are the ones who will be hardest hit by the arrow. Ms. Brewer probably doesn't care; she is likely courting the hard core money conservatives. She is a short-sighted political dipshit, imo.