Gov. Robert Bentley’s move to take state Medicaid dollars away from Planned Parenthood didn’t go unnoticed.
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“We’ve said all along that Planned Parenthood follows all laws and has very high medical standards, and that’s what every one of these investigations has found. This campaign by anti-abortion extremists is nothing less than a fraud”.
Ben Carson defends the medical research use of a 17 week old fetus in his published academic paper from 1992.
The Arkansas contracts involved services including nurse practitioners, pharmacy and family planning and were delivered through the Arkansas Medicaid program.
Planned Parenthood, which provides healthcare services to millions of women at hundreds of centers nationwide, has denied any wrongdoing.
Read Saturday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
“When states accept federal money, they have to accept the conditions the federal government puts on them”, said DiPippa.
“The allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from tissue donation is not true”, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said in a statement. All those supposedly outraged Republicans in the Senate, for instance, didn’t draft a bill to ban fetal tissue research or donation.
By now many of your readers have seen or heard of the disgusting undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood executives haggling over the price of body parts of aborted babies.
The anti-abortion group also released multiple internal documents from Stem Express that detailed its work with Planned Parenthood.
Olivia Watkins Hwang, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana health department, cited a state law that allows the termination of any Medicaid provider agreement within 30 days.
Dr Jen Gunter, an obstetrician-gynecologist, strongly condemned the GOP hopeful in her blog.
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, has recently been exposed in videos of manipulating abortion procedures so that they can retrieve unharmed baby parts in order to sell them.
“My primary responsibility in that research was operating on people to obtain diseased tissue for comparison to banked tissue samples”, Carson said of his 1992 study in a statement Thursday.
Pink has been known for her frank opinion on issues and won’t let others change her mind amidst the latest Planned Parenthood controversy.
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The mounting evidence regarding Planned Parenthood’s legal activities is dissuading at least some lawmakers from wasting their time.
