Bobby Jindal, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination, announced August. 3 that his administration was ending provider agreements that reimbursed Planned Parenthood for providing health services to low-income patients through Medicaid.
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“This money goes to protect the health of Arkansans, and the argument that this is about abortion is a bogus argument”, he said. “Part of her confusion is based on assumptions: “Planned Parenthood has flatly rejected” having done anything wrong”, she says, and no crime is “proved by the videos”.
Carson had previously told CNN that organs and tissue from aborted fetuses aren’t needed for medical research. He basically stated that if Planned Parenthood is going to claim to be a women’s health organization, they need to cease their practice of abortion if they want to continue receiving American’s tax dollars.
The state’s Medicaid program has paid Planned Parenthood for family planning and gynecological services, such as pap smears, as a Medicaid provider during recent years, said state Department of Human Services spokesman Amy Webb.
Federal courts have in the past blocked state attempts by states including Indiana and Arizona to cut Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid, citing the law that gives consumers a choice in providers. In the lengthy video, provided by the Center for Medical Progress, O’Donnell describes collecting and sending samples daily to researchers across the country.
Every Friday at noon, Jennifer Lewis, of Waynesboro and a group of about 20 other people demonstrate on Hydraulic Road, in front of Planned Parenthood in Albemarle County. “We have to take care of women”. Both the House Energy and Commerce and Senate Judiciary committees had asked StemExpress for clarification of its relationship with Planned Parenthood before the announcement.
“I, nor any of the doctors involved with this study, [do not have] anything to do with abortion or what Planned Parenthood has been doing”.
Despite the potential issues facing the governor’s decision to remove funding to Planned Parenthood, J.R. Davis, spokesperson for Gov. Hutchinson, said the governor’s office had not received any calls from legislators in the state defending Planned Parenthood.
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The mounting evidence regarding Planned Parenthood’s legal activities is dissuading at least some lawmakers from wasting their time. No state funds were used for abortions, except in the case of incest, rape or when the life of the mother was at stake.
