“A majority of our clients are low-income, dependent on Medicaid for receiving health care”, she said, “In order to afford the medicine and services they need, we need to be reimbursed at a closer rate to the cost of medicine than places like hospitals that get money through private insurance”. He added that the restrictions could leave women without access to critical preventive care like cancer screenings. More are promised. Planned Parenthood has maintained that the videos are deceptively edited and do not reflect the group’s actual practices.
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Before the vote, Sununu urged state officials to find an alternative vendor for the contracts. The agency referred officials to guidance issued by the agency in 2011 on the matter.
In a July 29 statement decrying Planned Parenthood, Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, also urged any woman traumatized by the news coverage of the videos to seek help from Project Rachel (www.projectrachel.com), which is nationwide.
A week after completing a review that found the state group “fully compliant with state and federal law”, Healey fired off an email to her supporters criticizing what she described as political attacks on the organization, which offers health care services including abortions. In past tries by states to block Planned Parenthood funding, federal courts have stepped in to say: you can’t do that. “It is not only that infants, in their mother’s wombs, are deprived of their lives, but also that their corpses are desecrated for profit“. Alabama only paid $4,351 to Planned Parenthood in FY 14 and 15, mainly for contraception.
“I am of course talking about the Center for Medical Progress undercover videos-four of which have been released-that show high level Planned Parenthood executives and abortion providers haggling over the sale price of aborted baby parts“. As a doctor and Alabama’s Governor, the issue of human life, from conception to birth and beyond, is extremely important to him.
The videos are part of a three-year investigation into Planned Parenthood’s involvement in selling pieces of aborted babies to companies like StemExpress, who pass them along to research scientists. The organization has 60 days to appeal. Spokeswoman Jennifer Ardis says the organization has not asked for a hearing at this time.
“CMS reached out to DHH after we canceled the Medicaid provider contract with Planned Parenthood“, Reed said, the Hill reported.
Bentley had not changed his mind on the cancellation, she said.
They’re the only two states to take such action in their Medicaid programs since the videos were released.
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Multiple Republican candidates have called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood following the release of the videos. Most people interviewed don’t seem to know, and when they discover that these centers are run by anti-abortion organizers fear mongering about sex, the differences between how men and women are “wired” and reproductive health, the students recoil. The different sections of the rule appear to overlap and AHCA and Planned Parenthood Florida s could end up fighting it out in court.
