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The unbelievable harassment of the largest healthcare provider for American women has been taken to a new low in Texas:
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:
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http://www.alternet.org/gender/texas-officials-raid-several-planned-parenthood-offices-demand-addresses-employees
randys1
(16,286 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)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)race
The adult world, i.e. all but teaparty, has their eyes on Texas.
This is embarrassing
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Right away.
niyad
(113,284 posts)niyad
(113,284 posts)bother to pretend that there was actually some legitimate reasons for this terrorist assault on PP and women?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They make me absolutely sick. They have to be stopped, this can no longer be tolerated in this country.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Federal troops should be sent to protect Planned Parenthoods. This is terrorism.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)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.
edhopper
(33,575 posts)ever tore of this shit?
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)niyad
(113,284 posts)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)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)Dam fedral gubmit!!!
Is there some kind of RW goofy juice seeping into the Texas water supply? Or maybe widespread advanced gun culture psychosis?