If abortions at the Columbia clinic are shut down, the only abortion provider in Missouri would be the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis.
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State Solicitor General James Layton argued Wednesday that there’s no harm in allowing the state to immediately revoke the license because no abortions are being performed there anyway, a fact that Laughrey instead cited in her ruling in Planned Parenthood’s favor.
The goal of that was just politics, DeGette said.
Ryan called the incident “appalling” and said “justice should be swift”.
But after Boxers remarks, Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican named the chair of that committee, denied that the investigation was in any way linked to Planned Parenthood: Read the resolution establishing the select investigative panel on infant lives, she said.
“The deplorable practices at Planned Parenthood have been exposed to Americans”. Top Republicans behind all four House inquiries did not reply to requests for comment or declined to discuss the future of their investigations, which are set to be reprised next year.
“I’m concerned that kind of rhetoric incites people to do things that are harmful to others”, said Watson Coleman (D-12th Dist.).
After Planned Parenthood was exposed selling aborted baby parts, Governor Robert Bentley announced on Twitter in August that Alabama would also be cutting all state taxpayer funding to the abortion company.
The videos also inspired a torrent of Internet-based death threats against the doctors seen in them, according to a legal complaint filed by the National Abortion Federation, a trade association.
“I don’t think you can ever assume that you’re safe, but you try to be as safe as possible”, Carhart, who has become particularly well known because he provides late-term abortions and works in Nebraska and Maryland, told Reuters.
“The incendiary language and rhetoric being used associated with this committee is disgusting”, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said at a press briefing Tuesday, minutes after the House held a moment of silence for last Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs.
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“There have been so many threats we haven’t even been able to keep up with them – we’ve had to hire an outside security firm”, said the group’s president, Vicki Saporta. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson in October issued a preliminary injunction ordering Alabama to, at least temporarily, restore Medicaid funding. This has nothing to do with the select committee or pro-life movement. Republicans on the education and workforce committee, which is not formally investigating the group, nevertheless grilled the health secretary, Sylvia Burwell, about the sting videos in a budgetary hearing on 28 July.
