The U.S. government has warned states moving to defund women’s health group Planned Parenthood that they may be in conflict with federal law, officials said on Wednesday.
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The state follows Alabama and Louisiana, which are revoking a contract with Planned Parenthood using state Medicaid dollars, and New Hampshire, which zapped $650,000 in state taxpayer funding.
“I, nor any of the doctors involved with this study, [do not have] anything to do with abortion or what Planned Parenthood has been doing”.
The language in the contracts allows either party to cancel the contract at will with 30 days notice.
Previous released videos by the CMP revealed senior Planned Parenthood personnel discussing the harvesting and selling of fetal tissue and organs.
Just recently, candid videos of Planned Parenthood employees were exposed by the Anti-Abortion Group Center for Medical Progress.
Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson is now being pinned down for experimenting with aborted foetal tissues for a research he conducted back in 1992.
Louisiana officials have argued the move doesn’t violate federal law because other Medicaid providers offer the same services as Planned Parenthood. Federal courts have overturned previous attempts in Arizona and Indiana to disqualify Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
Also on Friday, California-based StemExpress, which works with Planned Parenthood, said it is cutting its ties with the country’s largest abortion provider. The organization had previously received money for sex education funding.
“We value our various partnerships but, due to the increased questions that have arisen over the past few weeks, we feel it prudent to terminate activities with Planned Parenthood“, spokesman Beau Phillips wrote in a statement.
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Planned Parenthood’s vice president of communication, Eric Ferrero, said the organization helps patients who want to donate tissue for scientific research, while costs of tissue recovery and preservation sometimes are reimbursed, always “with full, appropriate consent from patients and under the highest ethical and legal standards”. “I think people should go back and read about Margaret Sanger who founded this place – a woman Hillary Clinton by the way says that she admires”. The actual target has always been programs that make contraception and other non-abortion sexual health care affordable to women.
