Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Medicaid Removal

[TexasTowelie]

Planned Parenthood’s Texas affiliates on Monday filed a federal lawsuit to keep state health officials from booting them from the state’s Medicaid program.

Following Texas’ announcement in October that it would stop funding any care for poor women at Planned Parenthood clinics — a response to what state officials called “acts of misconduct” revealed in undercover anti-abortion videos — the women’s health organization is asking the courts for a reprieve.

Ten patients joined Planned Parenthood in the lawsuit, according to the organization. Kendra Hudson of Houston, a patient spokeswoman, said a pap smear she got at a Planned Parenthood clinic allowed her to identify an abnormal growth and prevent it from developing into cancer.

"They were the provider that I trusted and felt comfortable with," Hudson told reporters on Monday. By cutting off Medicaid funding to the women’s health organization, Planned Parenthood argues that thousands of other women could lose access to similar services they couldn't get elsewhere.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/11/23/planned-parenthood-sues-texas-over-medicaid-fundin/

[randys1]

1. Women will be killed if the GOP has their way, it is what the GOP wants to do, kill Women.

[SusanCalvin]

3. I think they just don't care.

As long as they can please their corporate and religious masters they don't care who gets killed.

[RayLib]

2. Their POV

Replace 'women' with 'babies' and 'GOP' with 'PPP', and you just came up with a GOP talking point! We can articulate our position than these simple polemics, I hope?