Meet Rick Perry’s sister, folks.
Posted: July 8, 2013 Filed under: just because | Tags: abortion, Texas 24 Comments
Well, this has been quite the newsday here in Texas…first Goodhair announces he’s leaving the building at the end of this term…now chatter is starting to mount that Perry’s sister Milla Perry Jones stands to profit from SB1’s requiring abortion clinics to upgrade to ambulatory surgical centers.
See the Burnt Orange Report’s blogging on this, which stems from Texas Observer reporting back in October 2012. (Fyi: The Burnt Orange Report is a liberal Texan blog, founded by students at UT-Austin, the burnt orange a reference to the school’s longhorn mascot and colors.)
See also this Houston Chronicle blog report: Perry’s sister an advocate for surgical centers, picked up by the Huffington Post today.
This is the history of abortion law in this country: No Profit Left Behind. Back in 1860s, the AMA (American Medical Association) wanted to exclusively perform abortions and didn’t want to share any profits with midwives and other abortion practitioners, so they led the push to demonize abortion as immoral, even though abortions had been legal and widely practiced–“before quickening” abortions were even accepted by the Catholic church.
Just this weekend I posted that radfem link for you…
Oppression is always tied to resource extraction. Abortion restrictions in the US, from the very beginning, were intended to ensure the dominance of white settlers and the dominance of the medical industry. Since the very beginning of patriarchy, the reproductive capacity of women has been regarded by the men in power as a resource, and controlling women is not just a hobby, or a religious directive – it’s a way to control and facilitate the extraction of resources from female bodies.
This news about Perry’s sister is all so very predictable.
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My daughter and I were just discussing her and Perry’s constant profiteering off the state yesterday. This is another one of his win-wins I suppose.
Since the lunatic and his fanbase have eyes on the WH, the rest of the country might want to familiarize themselves with the Perry family profiteering before the GOP primaries in ’16.
excellent idea! even wingnuts should have some integrity.
thank god Perrys gone hopefully never to return, good riddeince
is he running 2016………….getting ready.
Oh there’s always a peanut choir around him wanting him to run for President…you could hear them belching their sweet nothings when he announced he wasn’t running for another term as governor. Come on, what was it Dubya said…”fool me once, shame on you… fool me–you can’t get fooled again.” Voting for Dubya’s Texas governor cowboy clone in 2016 when you could have Hillary would only prove America is still stuck in its misogyny.
Answers should be demanded of the Perrys. From BOR…
Wow. Very creepy. Thanks, Mona!
Isn’t it? I didn’t particularly care for the “this lady” in the graphic or the “keep an eye on Big Sister” framing in the BOR post, but the family profiteering here speaks for itself.
Bush family was the same.
Ayup… I just commented about Dubya right before this 🙂
Agreed too……..stuck pig.
Of course the “Clinton dynasty” is the only one the fauxgressives ever seemed bothered about… not so much when liberals from Texas like myself said Bush was bad news bears and not as harmless a mosquito or bumbling bee as he was being made out to be.
That’s for sure. I remember it well. One reason I don’t give a damn about the fauxgressives now.
Joseph Cannon’s very pleasing speculation about Perry and events in 2016:
In the past month or so I have been formulating a hypothesis about the anti-abortion forces. Reading articles about hospital profiteering and exorbitant executive salaries I was piecing together the idea that abortions performed in abortion clinics, do not come with facility charges. During the years I spent working in health insurance I learned that every single procedure performed in a hospital or surgical facility is billed with a professional charge (doc’s fees) and a facility charge. However, abortion claims came in with only professional charges because facility charges could only be claimed if the services were performed in a JCAH approved facility. Therefore, corporations were not making any money off of abortions. BINGO! That’s why they want to shut down Planned Parenthood, that’s why they want to stop abortion clinics. When the corporations can start to make money off of abortions the battle will be over, abortions will be just fine. This story about Perry’s sister affirms my theory.
I’m interested in learning more about this. Can you point me to any sites about it?
Blergh! I realize how spammy that comment sounded. I had just never thought of the reproductive rights from a money making standpoint (silly me). I want to learn more and am ill equipped to have any meaningful discussion before then.
Oh, here’s a really perverse one from 2012 about Kansas’ abortion law saga:
Kansas Republicans look to profit off abortion taxes
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/kansas-republicans-look-to-profit-off-abortion-taxes/
Hi Emma,
Believe it or not, money was at the root of the right-wing’s anti-abortion obsession from the beginning. Evangelicals didn’t start attacking Roe v. Wade until a few years after the decision, when they realized they could use it for fund-raising. Here’s an open secrets page that lists anti-abortion fund-raisers and donations.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=Q14++
Another way to make money is to run or invest in those “clinics” where women are urged to give up their babies for adoption and lied to about the “dangers” of abortion. I don’t have time to look for links right now, but you can try googling with keywords. There are some feminist blogs listed on our sidebar.
Emma,
here’s a place to start: http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/history_abortion.html
The article I read about hospital profiteering and the reason why we pay so much more for healthcare in the US compared to every other country on the planet was a NYT article behind a pay wall. I get the Sunday NYT delivered so I saw it there a few weeks ago. The part about the health insurance payments I know from my own experience. I believe the push behind “bringing abortion clinics up to hospital standards” has more to do with being able to charge facility fees for the services rendered than it does either caring about women or giving a shit about the morality of abortion. It’s all about the money.
You can bet a pretty penny that the Churches are gearing up to get more money (as Geo. W. Bush dished it out to them) by establishing “crisis pregnancy centers”………..in every town in the USA.