A federal judge in Arkansas sided with Planned Parenthood on Friday, issuing a temporary injunction ordering Gov. Asa Hutchinson to continue funding for the three Medicaid patients who signed onto the lawsuit.
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“There’s been a lot of talk recently in Congress about defunding Planned Parenthood, and we just want to show how integral this organization is to supporting women’s health and to providing services, especially for low-income women who otherwise wouldn’t be able to have access”, Zhang said.
“At this stage of the proceedings, the court finds that the threat of irreparable harm to the Jane Does, and the public interest, outweighs the immediate interests and potential injuries to (the state)”, Baker wrote.
Republicans such as John Boehner and Carly Fiorina have been especially vocal about their positions in the debate around Planned Parenthood.
The Republican Party introduced the Continuing Appropriations Resolution of 2016 in early September, hoping to block government funding of Planned Parenthood for one year. All Medicaid-funded abortions undergo postpayment review, Soura said, and while that review isn’t complete, he suspects a few of the 222 abortions won’t meet federal guidelines. The federal funding being invested in Planned Parenthood is not going to waste. Planned Parenthood insists it doesn’t profit, but its staff, in heavily-edited segments, can appear glaringly insensitive at best when discussing compensation.
The Student Health Center offers numerous same services as Planned Parenthood, like sexually transmitted infections tests, pregnancy tests, birth control and vaccines for human papillomavirus and Hepatitis B. The Planned Parenthood in Columbia also offers the morning after pill and abortions.
“I’m proud to stand with Planned Parenthood”, “I’ll never stop fighting to protect the ability and right of every woman in this country to make her own health decisions”.
What’s more, Ye Hee Lee admitted that mammograms aren’t even a core service that Planned Parenthood provides.
After five conservative Republican men on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to severely restrict the standing of American women to contest job discrimination against them, most Republicans in Congress oppose civil rights proposals that would support women in their cases for equal justice involving fair pay and treatment on the job.
Thousands are expected to attend these protests with the objective of creating awareness of the barbaric practice of abortion and the sale of aborted baby body parts – a scandal that has erupted in recent weeks due to undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. Women older than 40 typically receive mammogram referrals, but women in that age bracket represented only about 7 percent of Planned Parenthood’s clients in 2013.
The organization has said it did not violate any laws and that any money it received was to cover transportation costs.
She also said the state had provided no evidence that the Arkansas clinics had engaged in improper or illegal activity.
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He’s anxious that the program might lose its funding, but Planned Parenthood officials have committed to funding the program for the next school year, Nyawelo said.
