Terminating Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid provider agreements restricts access by not permitting them to get services from providers of their choice, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Louisiana and Alabama both announced last week that they were ending payments to Planned Parenthood through Medicaid.
The organization says losing the contract will significantly impact the services it provides to 12,000 Granite State women.
“I think she certainly should consider recusing herself if anything further about Planned Parenthood comes to her office”, Fox said. Planned Parenthood has 60 days to appeal the decision. While Gov. Scott Walker and the state legislature have redirected about $1 million annually from Planned Parenthood to a Women’s Health Block Grant, the abortion giant’s affiliate in Wisconsin still receives between $15 and $16 million in taxpayer money annually, mainly through Medicaid and Title X “family planning” funding.
The Obama administration is strong arming a group of states who dropped funding for Planned Parenthood in their Medicaid programs following the release of series of gruesome videos showing fetal organs being sold for profit.
The department cited a 2011 memo in which agency officials declared that that federal law does not permit states to exclude health providers from Medicaid based on the range of health services they provide, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Another shows a Planned Parenthood official claiming that staff can alter abortion techniques to obtain intact fetuses for donation.
In the latest video, a former tissue procurement technician says she was told to acquire fetal tissue without consent at a Planned Parenthood clinic in California.
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, another Republican candidate, said on Tuesday abortions should not be federally funded, but he “would look at the good aspects of” Planned Parenthood. New Hampshire has also pledged to defund the abortion provider.
Your editorial states, “Once again, a rush to judgment has overwhelmed the facts”, referring to a proposed launch of a criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood’s harvesting and selling of babies’ body parts, and yet it appears your editorial has rushed to judgment and has rushed to “spin” a pro-choice agenda.
Without that funding, many women, many of them low income, would lose a source of low-cost health care. The remaining 97 percent comprised contraception, STD testing and treatment, cancer screenings, pregnancy tests and other noncontroversial services.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, one of 17 contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, earlier this month was the first to lead his state to cut funding of Planned Parenthood, following a failed effort to do that in the U.S. Congress.
“There are many other organizations that exist to help women with their health issues – pap smears, mammograms, et cetera”.
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The mogul suggested the government only defund the portion of Planned Parenthood dealing with abortions.
