East County News Service
April 8, 2017 (Sacramento) -- California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with 15 fellow attorneys general, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio et al v. Hodges before the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals on Thursday. The amicus brief defends a woman's right to access essential healthcare services, including reproductive health services, and a qualified healthcare provider's right to participate in offering publicly-funded health services to all people.
Specifically, the brief challenges an Ohio law which excludes qualified healthcare providers that offer services to women, including abortion services, from participating in publicly-funded health programs unrelated to abortion – including breast and cervical cancer prevention programs.
“A woman, not politicians, should decide what is in her best interest when it comes to her health. There is no rational basis for a state to deny women the right to choose among qualified health care providers,” said Attorney General Becerra. “And no arbitrary state law should exclude those qualified health care providers from offering essential services to anyone who needs them. I urge the Court to find this misguided state law unconstitutional.”
Attorney General Becerra joined the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai'i, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia in filing the amicus brief.
A copy of the brief is at oag.ca.gov/news
Comments
General Welfare does not mean government intervention
General welfare can then mean anything anybody in government wants, that is NOT what the Constitution means or says. I am not a serf and NOT funding planned parenthood is NOT unconstitutional
The Constitutions "promote the general Welfare"
The US champions human rights! USA!
nothing in the law prohibits reproduction rights
the idea that women in the USA do not have reproduction rights is beyond inane. just like the hobby lobby case that pushed a 100% false narrative, access is one thing, who pays for it is another.
planned parenthood does NOT do what they claim to and like too many other organizations are funded by taxpayers with ZERO Constitutional basis. do what you want, don't expect me to pay for it.
We pay for all kinds of things for other people
through heatlhcare such as paying for smokers' ailments, people who do risky sports and have injuries, drivers who speed and get hurt in crashes, Viagra for men who are impotent, etc. So why not birth control for women? Why this sexist attitude of only wanting to deprive women of funding for their medical needs?
In many states and counties, women in the U.S. no longer have broad reproductive rights. In some rural areas Planned Parenthood is the only place to go to get a Pap smear, mammogram, or birth control. It makes no sense to cut funding for clinics that are often the only ones providing those services. The US already does NOT pay for abortions, so cutting the rest is just punitive to women, period.
Cutting aid to women overseas can put lives and health at risk, for instance in areas where AIDs or ZIKA are rampant, or for a woman who nearly died in childbirth and can't get birth control to prevent future pregnancies. Inability to choose how many children to have, with access to birth control, can doom families to a lifetime of poverty. All children should be welcome and wanted. When they're not, and birth is forced, we wind up with tragic situations where parents in some of these countries have abandoned children in forests, sold them into slavery or killed them.
money to non citizens outside
money to non citizens outside of the control of the USA does not promote the general welfare
nobody is denying women access to healthcare. again access is not who pays, to combine them is a sign of evil intentions and a desire to steal from one person to give to another. people go to jail for that as they should
The US government was established, in part,
So hey there, quick request:
Can you not refer to my religion as treating women as "baby factories"? Especially during Holy Week? Thanks.
quick answer: No
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