Oklahoma Cuts Off Federal Funding For Planned Parenthood

[appleannie1]

The Oklahoma State Department of Heath has just announced that it will end its WIC contract with the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliates, effectively cutting off the federal funding that the organization’s clinics rely on to provide health services to low-income women.
The WIC program — which uses federal funds to provide food vouchers to low-income pregnant women, mothers, and young children — has been in partnership with three out of the four Tulsa-area Planned Parenthood clinics for the past 18 years, and the dissolution of the contract may force those clinics to close.The state’s Department of Health did not give a reason for the contract’s termination, saying only that it will not be renewed for “business reasons.”
Jill June, the president of Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa, told the Tulsa World that she believes the decision to end WIC funding to her organization was politically motivated, as anti-choice legislators across the country work to target Planned Parenthood affiliates as a central tactic in their ongoing War on Women:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/04/958951/oklahoma-cuts-off-federal-funding-for-planned-parenthood/


War on women? What war on women? They are determined to take women back to the middle ages.

[Ilsa]

1. Poor women and poor families just don't stand a chance in republican states. nt

[appleannie1]

2. Very true. And they also believe it is a duty for the woman to please the man. Pregnancy is

a trophy showing off how virile they are.

[Walk away]

3. They are starting in the Low Info Red States but they will be in Pennsylvania...

before we know it. I never thought I would see the day. When I was seventeen I walked to my local Planned Parenthood for my first PAP smear and breast exam. I received birth control pills and condoms and went to a great class on how to use them. I have never had an unwanted pregnancy or any sexually transmitted disease thank to the good folks at P.P.!

I donate something to them every year. I'm just hoping to pass on to others the good life and health that P.P. gave to me.

[Viva_Daddy]

4. How does a State cut off Federal Funding?

[Princess Turandot]

5. Often, there are state $$ matching requirements for these types of grants..

state puts in a $1, Feds match it. Without the state contribution, there's no fed match.

[OldDem2012]

6. This is what the GOP wants to do nationwide if Romney gets elected. nt.