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(for so-called fiscal conservatives, one has to ask exactly how much taxpayer money they are wasting on these lawsuits)
Jindal Appeals Federal Court Ruling That Saved Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood
Last week, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindals administration filed an appeal notice at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal in New Orleans after a federal judge ordered his administration to cease efforts to strip Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in the state. Late last month, after temporarily blocking Jindals attempts, U.S. District Judge John deGravelles handed down a preliminary injunction requiring Louisiana to continue funding Planned Parenthood.
Jindal, a Republican candidate for president, sought the cancellation of provider agreements between Medicaid and Planned Parenthood, asserting the womens reproductive healthcare provider does not represent the values of the state of Louisiana in regards to respecting human life.
He also cited a series of fraudulent and surreptitiously recorded videos released by anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). The videos, which CMP claim depicts Planned Parenthoods sale of fetal tissue, have been debunked repeatedly. Nonetheless, under Jindals directive, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) issued a notice to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) in August alerting them of their contract termination with Medicaid effective 30 days after the notices date.
The need for affordable access to quality reproductive healthcare in Louisiana could not be more critical. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Louisiana has some of the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease infection in the United States, ranking first in gonorrhea infection, second in chlamydia and third in syphilis and HIV. Last year, the states two Planned Parenthood clinics provided nearly 20,000 STD tests as well as pelvic exams, cancer screenings and contraception to some 10,000 predominately low-income patients.
http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/11/10/jindal-appeals-federal-court-ruling-that-saved-medicaid-funding-for-planned-parenthood/
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niyad
(113,505 posts)remove your post.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)was the only serious way to respond to him. I will put myself on ignore so you won't be bothered with my posts henceforth. Again my apologies for responding to a thread on an internet discussion board.
niyad
(113,505 posts)of him--he writes the material himself for us!!