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LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:48 PM Oct 2015

Texas Officials Raid Several Planned Parenthood Offices, Demand Addresses of Employees

The unbelievable harassment of the largest healthcare provider for American women has been taken to a new low in Texas:

Texas sent agents to Planned Parenthood facilities on Thursday seeking documents, the group said, calling it a "politically motivated" move that comes on the heels of the state's Republican leaders barring it from receiving Medicaid money.
Members of the Texas Office of the Inspector General made unannounced visits at Planned Parenthood health centers in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, staying in some cases for several hours and giving Planned Parenthood 24 hours to deliver thousands of pages of documents stored at its facilities across the state, the organization said.


Some of the information they were seeking is both bizarre and possibly dangerous for Planned Parenthood employees. From Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region Chief Executive Officer Ken Lambrecht:
Lambrecht said Texas had requested what Planned Parenthood sees as unnecessary information such as the home addresses of all its employees as well as their salaries and bonuses.


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http://www.alternet.org/gender/texas-officials-raid-several-planned-parenthood-offices-demand-addresses-employees
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LiberalArkie

(15,715 posts)
3. The police have learned how to project power. Back in the 60's all we got was fire hoses,
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:58 PM
Oct 2015

black jacks and cattle prods. We got hurt, but it usually healed. Now they just fill you with lead.

Like the article said, they want all the employees names, addresses, pay etc.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
4. Federal troops need to be sent to Texas. And this weekend Texas is hosting the Formula ONe
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:00 PM
Oct 2015

race

The adult world, i.e. all but teaparty, has their eyes on Texas.

This is embarrassing

niyad

(113,284 posts)
6. on what possible grounds did they even attempt to justify this F****** BS? or did they even
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:21 PM
Oct 2015

bother to pretend that there was actually some legitimate reasons for this terrorist assault on PP and women?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
11. This is terrorism. Terrorism of women and anything that benefits them.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:20 PM
Oct 2015

They make me absolutely sick. They have to be stopped, this can no longer be tolerated in this country.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
8. Were they wearing their brown shirts and storm trooper boots?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:30 PM
Oct 2015

Religious zealots have infiltrated too many government offices and will be the eventual downfall of our free country. We are becoming no better than the Middle East countries that we despise for their lack of freedoms due to religious intolerance.

niyad

(113,284 posts)
12. kick for necessary visibility for this HEINOUS TERRORIST WAR ON WOMEN--make no mistake--
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 12:18 PM
Oct 2015

that is EXACTLY what this is. if they are not stopped, we are only going to see more of this insanity.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
13. When folks say "only people should have constitutional rights",
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 01:08 PM
Oct 2015

this is the kind of scenario I give them as an example.

Planned Parenthood, like a corporation, is not a "natural person". But it most certainly should have constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

moondust

(19,979 posts)
14. Probly part of that Jade Helm.
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 02:42 PM
Oct 2015

Dam fedral gubmit!!!



Is there some kind of RW goofy juice seeping into the Texas water supply? Or maybe widespread advanced gun culture psychosis?

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