The protest was originally organized by people angry at Planned Parenthood in light of the recent online videos alleging the organization is involved in selling fetal tissues. Kurt Schaefer, also is investigating.
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The scariest thing Mr. Schaefer’s done on the record lately is to release the name of a doctor whom he says was identified by the state Department of Health and Senior Services as the person responsible for abortions at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia.
Federal law allows Medicaid reimbursement on abortions only when a woman’s life is in danger or when the pregnancy is caused by rape or incest. That seemed to be the case this weekend when Satanists launched a counter-protest against pro-life demonstrators outside Planned Parenthood facilities in Detroit and Ferndale, Michigan, the Washington Examiner reported Sunday. Planned Parenthood of Central and Southwest Florida is suing to block the state from imposing any penalties on the clinics. Stripping the funding from Planned Parenthood, as Jeb Bush and other Republicans have proposed, would add to the burden.
Iowa City’s Planned Parenthood location was one that participated.
The pro-life protesters hope to end Federal taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, which now receives over half a billion dollars per year. “Politicians who have tried to do this in other states have failed”.
“The doctor who is doing the abortions doesn’t actually have admitting privileges at any hospital within 30 miles, which is a state law”, Hoffmeyer said. But according to the organization, it does not donate fetal tissue for medical research in any of the four states. In the latest inspired move, Republican state legislators in Ohio have introduced a bill to make it illegal for a woman to terminate her pregnancy because she has discovered that the baby would have Down syndrome.
“I am passionate about upholding the sanctity of human life from the womb to the tomb”, I said on the news that reached hundreds of thousands later that day. It’s called Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood federation of America President Cecile Richards defended the organization in a video statement released last month. Never before in the history of legalized abortion has the unethical, unjust, violent and ugly world of Planned Parenthood been so graphically exposed.
Julieta Slater says it’s not about being a mother, It’s is a health care issue. Each year, they provide contraception to more than 8,200 patients, administer more than 10,700 sexually transmitted infection tests and provide more than 2,300 breast exams.
Melissa Flournoy, the Louisiana state director of Planned Parenthood, told the protesters, “We know that for Gov. Jindal, health care is not a priority”.
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“Extremists who oppose Planned Parenthood’s mission and services are making outrageous and completely false claims”.
