Bobby Jindal and his ilk are determined to go back to the 1880's..

The move comes despite the fact that the two Planned Parenthood clinics in Louisiana do not provide abortion

Oh my gosh..you are so right about that

A very telling move.
And a classic Republican move from today's Republican Party. Republican political priorities these days seem to be mostly about destruction of "enemies" , governmental and otherwise, whether or not it makes economic or moral or pragmatic sense. Destruction for its own sake. The very definition of vandalism.

access to birth control and family planning. Planned Parenthood doesn;t do abortions...they make referrals for abortions. Jindal's stupidity can be demonstrated by the following statistics: )from the NYT article by Nicholas Kristof)..."This in a country where half of all pregnancies are unintended, where 30 percent of American teenage girls become pregnant by age 19.

The Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health, calculates that Title X family planning centers prevent about one million unintended pregnancies a year, of which 345,000 would have ended in abortion. It says that every year Title X clinics avert some 53,000 cases of chlamydia and 8,800 cases of gonorrhea, and save the lives of 1,100 women who would otherwise die of cervical cancer.

In other words, Title X prevents an abortion about once every 90 seconds...."
This should be shoved in Jindal's face and read aloud in the state legislature.

don't do abortions, the organization does. So i can understand his decision to cut off PP since he is against abortion and money is mutually interchangable. Doesnt mean I agree with it though

Good luck with that. Repubs hate any woman who will not stay in her place, and will do just about anything to further demean women.
They think women who get abortions deserve to die, so they are systematically removing access to safe abortion. The back alley is preferable to these despicable lowlifes; that way women getting abortions are more likely to get what they deserve-- death.

You hit the nail on the head and stated this beautifully. Every word you say here is 100% true. Some people don't get it yet, but this is exactly how the Repukes think.

He's about the most universally despised politician I've ever seen, in a place where badmouthing politicians is considered a sport.

It's been a long time since a politician has been so thoroughly disliked by all political parties. On top of it, the resentment is abundant that he is little more than a tool for out-of-state interests, and that he abandoned his duties as governor to be a fulltime presidential candidate, while collecting a salary in Baton Rouge.

He lives in front of the TV cameras, advised by people who think "Duck Dynasty" is what America is all about.

Alleged offenses do not under any law I have heard of constitute legal grounds for terminating contracts. This smacks a lot of what the governor of Texas is indicted for. Un-warranred attacks and withholding of state funds to punish your political enemies.
If DOJ does not take this case they are missing their very best chance ever to prove gender discrimination. I suspect he will change his tune shortly if actually sued in state court..

Sounds like the folks won't put up with him and his antics.

...how Louisiana is near the bottom of the wage and jobs scale. Figures.

In Louisiana they would need to import workers. Well, the imports happened, to other states. People in Louisiana had to leave the state and go elsewhere to gain employment. If Jindal touches something bad things results. He has messed with the state employee retirement and again without good results. He did manage to hire his buddies on staff jobs and give them raises, good for nothing loser.

end any hope of a replacement for Planned Parenthood. And now he is cutting off the other access to healthcare. If the women in his state have any sense at all they will toss him out on his ear come election time. And in the meantime they will protest every move he makes.

nuff said.

Abortion since 2010: -30% in Hawaii, thanks to health insurance & affordable contraception +12% in "pro-life" Louisiana #StandWithPP

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) August 3, 2015

Political pro-lifers, who want to pass laws to fix a public health problem, are the biggest impediment to reducing abortions.

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

- Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine Catholic nun

The accurate term is "forced-birther" as in:

"Refuting all the fascist, flatulent, flat-earth, feminophobic forced-birthers takes just two words: Bristol Palin."

HUGE difference

That's the sound my brain made when asking how we ever got ourselves into this situation. Supposedly evolved species.

And this will help...how?

Protest what they don't do by cutting funds to services to women to help prevent the need for that thing they don't do?

is running for the office of President of the United States. Imperial Rome didn't produce elites any more insane and it could at least plead lead poisoning induced dementia for spawning lunatics like Jindal. What the hell is our excuse?

.....this one is the worst.

at the NH Forum slamming Hillary and telling them what a great job he's done in Louisiana. Almost feel sorry for the Republicans who have to choose between these clowns.

How many times?
How many times must I inform people that it is not fucking BOBBY, it's fucking PIYUSH!?!?!?!?
His first name is PIYUSH for the nth time!

What's your point?

the tone of your post comes off in an insulting way just as the right use Obama's middle name.

How would it be if we called Barrack, Barry instead?
Besides, it's a good way to piss off RepubliCONs, and I just LOVE to piss off those damn RepubliCONs!

Have you never known that nicknames exist? We don't call Barack Barry because he doesn't like it and prefers Barack. Jindal prefers his nickname.

Why does it piss republicans off? Why do they care?

When voting for someone the person running should have her/his legal given name on the ballot. Not his/her nickname.
It pisses off Republicans because they want to hear an "American" name, which is really why Piyush has a nickname that is not at all related to his legal given name.

Anything to get the nomination.

from a crooked ass politician.

approved/authorized by HHS, a federal agency. JIndal is breaking the law

that are eventually aborted. You can close PP, but there will always be a place to get an abortion, legal or otherwise, safe or otherwise.

not that they have that sort of thing down there. but sense the Lawsuits coming to bankrupt his state. don't see how this will be effective

my understanding is that they recorded for over an hour and cut it down to about eight minutes

that their elitist make believe is somehow based in truth.

Jindal is a born-again Xian, and those Xian beliefs are always going to override any sense of human dignity, equality or kindness that are the norm for any run-of-the-mill human being.

Xians suck, that's all there is to it.

But he doesn't have the authority to block this right?

Himself right the fuck out of office.

I didn't think anyone could be worse than Blanco, but Jindal makes her look stellar in comparison.

It's never about abortion. It's about keeping women pregnant and tied to children so they can't be political and economic competition.

They're afraid of us.

for right wing women. Why do they support disguising keeping women pregnant and uncompetitive with men by hiding behind anti-abortion rhetoric

No risk, right? If they're not expected to compete with men, they can stay in their little protective bubbles of being taken care of, of being a lesser human being, but it's okay as long as you have someone to take care of you, right? Maybe they're damned insecure.

I dunno. I doubt that's really it but I've got to wonder.

The disaster named Bobby Ass Wipe Jindal .

He's been a dip stick since he appeared on the scene, and still is! I guess it's because some nut un the RNC decided to give him the chance to do the Pub response to Obama, he thinks he's got some edge. He's a jack a** and it has nothing to so with his race. I heard even the people of La. don't like him!

I would free New Orleans from the state that has always treated it like a slave to exploit. Vive New Orleans, and to Hell with Louisiana!

... would have cut off his dad nine months before his birth, we wouldn't be dealing with his bullshit now.

equate to one unwanted birth?

This piece of scum has done the math, apparently.

But then again, what Rethuglican isn't a piece of crap??

You know, after decades of this stuff, I can truly say that I hate their guts.

A desperate political move to get anyone to pay attention to him. And he doesn't care who it impacts.

Pretty pathetic.

At least he's only LA's problem. He will never get elected president.

this is what happens when you elect an idiot poser to office.

Jindal would have America destroy within a year if he was President, he doesn't have the intellect to run a household.