Planned Parenthood said it would be illegal to do so, and Scott’s office pointed out that it is against the law to use Medicaid money for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or if the mother is endangered. Jeb Bush. But the organization does receive funds through the state’s share of Medicaid reimbursements, although that’s a very small number.
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“Despite all the hand-waving about fetal tissue, Tuesday’s hearings were a confirmation that the attacks on Planned Parenthood are a proxy for the larger religious-right movement to reverse the sexual revolution brought to America by feminism and reliable contraception”, argues Amanda Marcotte for The XX Factor.
In 2015 the House has already passed an unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban, measures to defund Planned Parenthood and criminalize abortion providers, and a proposal to severely restrict insurance coverage of abortion, along with several other bills that had anti-choice language slipped into them.
Scheidler also said there’s a long road ahead, and they’re planning another wave of protests all over the country set for October 10th.
Planned Parenthood Federation president Cecile Richards testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Capitol Hill in Washington on September 29, 2015.
“She consistently dodged important questions about the prominence of abortion in Planned Parenthood’s revenue.”
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, claimed that the organisation has been utilising a big chunk of its budget on non-health care expenses that covers among others, exorbitant travels and blowout parties, and largely ignored the issue that generated the hearing, which was the group’s involvement in providing aborted foetal tissue to researchers. Even if that were not true, it’s laughable to suggest that the funding of non-abortion services does not financially benefit the abortion side of this shady outfit.
They are demanding that he continue the fight against Planned Parenthood.
There’s something inherently ironic about a company named MOM’s which donates money to an abortion provider.
The investigations are part of the “political witch hunt going on across the nation”, Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Melissa Reed told reporters during a break in the meeting. For example, the money the federal government gives to PP can be used indirectly to cover operating and overhead costs such as rent and staff salary.
“Health care doesn’t mean Planned Parenthood and Planned Parenthood doesn’t mean women’s health care”, Duffy said.
It is Richards and her fellow pro-abortionists who are obsessed – obsessed with maximizing the killing of babies for profit yet representing themselves as a philanthropic organization dedicated to women’s health.
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President Obama has made it clear he would veto Black’s proposal if it were to reach his desk.
