{"id":28534,"date":"2012-07-11T21:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html"},"modified":"2012-07-11T21:55:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T03:55:55","slug":"free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","title":{"rendered":"Free speech for me, but not for thee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is all about the Personal Freedom, don&#39;t you know? \u00a0Rough riders and\u00a0marshals\u00a0and cowboys and the independent Westerner who speaks his mind and fights for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Which is, of course, why Texas is basically gagging doctors and clinics who receive state women&#39;s health money from even <i>talking<\/i> about abortion to their patients. \u00a0Because, y&#39;know, freedom of speech is really cool and patriotic, except when it&#39;s for things that are legal but we don&#39;t really like. \u00a0Yay, Texas!<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2FDMWTwomen-e1342031104982.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/07\/11\/514891\/texas-seeks-to-stop-doctors-from-talking-about-abortion\/'>Texas Seeks To Stop Doctors From Talking About Abortion<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTexas Gov. Rick Perry (R) effectively defunded his state\u2019s Planned Parenthood earlier this year by barring it and any other \u201cabortion affiliates\u201d from receiving funds under the Texas Women\u2019s Health Pr&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gyUGUxFQDsR' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas is all about the Personal Freedom, don&#39;t you know? \u00a0Rough riders and\u00a0marshals\u00a0and cowboys and the independent Westerner who speaks his mind and fights for freedom. Which is, of course, why Texas is basically gagging doctors and clinics who receive state women&#39;s health money from even talking about abortion to their patients. \u00a0Because, y&#39;know, freedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/11\/free-speech-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free speech for me, but not for thee&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43581,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/15\/license-plates-and-free-speech.html","url_meta":{"origin":28534,"position":0},"title":"License plates and free speech","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Jul-14 9:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting (split) ruling from the 5th Circuit, confirming the idea that license plates with messages, symbols, etc., are personal speech by the person displaying them\u00a0(not state speech by the government issuing them), and therefore Texas cannot block\u00a0license plates by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, including the Confederate flag.Aside from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30696,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/rah-rah-zis-god-bah.html","url_meta":{"origin":28534,"position":1},"title":"Rah! 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