Kentucky moves to halt abortions at Louisville clinic

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The state has ordered a Planned Parenthood facility to halt abortions, saying the Louisville clinic needs an agreement with a hospital that could take in women who have complications from a procedure.

Republican Gov. Matt Bevin said in a statement that the facility was "openly and knowingly operating an unlicensed abortion facility in clear violation of the law."

Kentucky has abortion clinics in Louisville and Lexington, the state's two largest cities. State officials said in the letter to Planned Parenthood that its Nov. 19 application to begin performing abortions at its Louisville facility is deficient.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky said in a letter to health officials Friday afternoon that it would work to correct the problems so it can resume services at the Louisville center. The letter to the state Cabinet for Family and Health Services said the facility received assurances from state officials in early December — before Bevin took office — that it could begin providing abortions.

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Published on NewsOK Published: January 29, 2016 Updated: 11 hours ago

[Botany]

1. Why would a woman ever vote republican?

[forest444]

3. What I've noticed about Republican women,

is that they generally hate other women.

[lark]

6. You know, I've noticed that too.

My family is mostly women and all my 14 aunts (including both sides of the family) were pretty close, calling someone sister meant lifetime friend, I was amazed growing up in the south how often that isn't the case, that my family seemed so different than many. I've constantly had women make disparaging remarks about other women in general that were totally wrong and biased. Think too many women are raised to hate their kind and revere men. Crazy!! I am thankful every day for the strong, intelligent, caring women that surround me, including my daughter.

[forest444]

9. Amazing story. Thank you, Lark.

I grew up in Mississippi. What I noticed is that the higher up the social totem pole one goes (and Deep South society, as you know, is still to some extent a caste system), the more vitriolic women are in the way they speak about others in front of their daughters. Unless the young ones are very strong, that inevitably does something to a little girl's psyche.

Right-wing Southern men are only too happy to stand back to watch all that "cat fighting" because it helps direct it away from them and all their shortcomings (all those vices Faulkner, Capote, and Tennessee Williams described, and which many good ole boys generally don't want discussed).

Of course, a lot of those common to people anywhere in the world. The difference in the Deep South being that the element of shame is very pronounced in society, such that people generally feel incapable of forgiving themselves for even small mistakes. Naturally, they grow to resent the idea that they should make amends and especially those who seem to suggest they should (hence, their hatred for libruls).

Anyway, these are generalizations. It's a pathology that's very widespread among white Southerners; but by no means universal. Southerners can often be some of the most deeply understanding, truly humanitarian people you're likely to find.

[Liberalagogo]

7. Here ya go:

[blackspade]

2. Bevins is a plague.

This is what happens when the Democratic Party doesn't stand for anything and runs weak candidates.
It depresses Democratic turnout and allows carpet bagging assholes like Bevins to get elected.
Fuck it's going to be a long 4 years.

[Botany]

8. I might be wrong but the Governor's race in KY last fall doesn't pass the smell test to me

The D was 5 + points going into the election and he lost by 9?

[blackspade]

16. Yes, I agree.

But it would require our corporate Democratic SOS and AG to do something about it.
But they won't because they are bought by the special interests.

[Botany]

19. I'm from Ohio and I know that the state and national Dems. know about "the dirty voting" ...

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.... and they will not do shit about it either. Not only in KY but in Kansas where Brownback
was unpopular w/republicans too because of how he trashed the state and in Wisconsin
where the two metrics to really look @ were Madison and Milwaukee which hade massive
turn outs in the recall Walker race or in Michigan where Synder was very unpopular but
somehow in all those races the republicans won. From some people who are experts in the
field they have told me that the Republicans have at least a 10 point "fudge factor" built into the
system. AKA for a Dem to win he or she has to win by a large enough margin to then win
a close race.

http://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article41620107.html

Republicans know that the demographics and their policies are working against them
so they have to game the system and have a cover story to explain their wins. in Ohio
2004 it was a sudden turn out of people worried about gay marriage in KY in 2015 it was
"the folks" stood w/Kim Davis and the voter turn out was low.

debbie wasserman schultz appointed a women to chair the Florida Dems. who had worked for
DBT (the company that helped to rig Florida in 2000 by removing >50,000 black voters from
being able to vote.) I know that John Kerry's people were told of all the fraud in Ohio in 2004
but for some reason they did nothing. Harry Reid has since praised Kerry for not raising a
stink about OH 2004.

[Politicub]

11. The voters allowed this to happen

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There needs to be culpability for the lazy or those that are so narrow minded that they're waiting for the perfect candidate. People are also going to pay with their lives if the Medicaid expansion gets nixed.

I didn't follow the election enough to know how much the democratic part did to GOTV. But this is a problem that the citizens of Kentucky created.

The people who will suffer because of it are those that often don't have a voice. As citizens, it's everyone's responsibility to stay informed.

People seem to lose sight of the fact that women have the civil right to have an abortion. It's one of the most precious rights since it allows women to control their destiny by being the sole arbiter of when they are ready to start a family.

It makes me angry when things like this happen. The voters could have stopped it.

[blackspade]

17. Our Party is to blame for running terrible candidates and campaigns.

You can't expect voters who are uninformed by a corporate owned media to GOTV when the Party messaging is so bad.
Laying it all at the feet of the voter is a cop-out and gives the folks that actually control the levers of power a pass for their poor performance.
Your post smacks of putting the cart before the horse at best and victim blaming at worst.
Our Party needs to give voters something to vote for.

[Politicub]

20. You can't force someone to run

But I don't know. Perhaps you can.

If someone isn't passionate enough to seek the nomination on their own, what makes you think they will have the fire in their belly to win the general election?

When elections are lost, it is because not enough voters acted in your chosen candidates favor. That's not blaming. It's our system. Is it the democratic PARTY'S fault? I have no idea. I would need to research the race there and what transpired.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. Here is an excellent post by nashville brook about Florida...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7573276

[Vinca]

4. If you don't vote, this is what you end up with.

Bevin is going to ruin any progress the previous Democratic governor made. Put a Republican in charge and put your life at risk. Think Flint.

[Scalded Nun]

5. People of Kentucky, This is what you voted for

More to come, I assure you.

More to lose, I assure you of that as well.

[Politicub]

10. Kentucky moves to strip women of their constitutional rights

That's a more descriptive headline.

[ananda]

13. And seeks to own their bodies.

..

[Politicub]

14. That's a better headline

Move to Kentucky if you want the state to own you.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Why does a clinic need an agreement with a hospital?

The clinic isn't going into the hospital for treatment. The patient does when needed. Will the deny a patient into the hospital? Wouldn't that be illegal?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. Yep. You beat me to it.

[kentauros]

18. It's what they did in Texas to shut down clinics.

It's a money-making scheme for the people at the top. Look for kickbacks to people around the governor or people he hired. He'll get some of it, too.