Planned Parenthood sues Texas, other Republican states over Medicaid de-funding

“The gruesome harvesting of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood will not be allowed in Texas and the barbaric practice must be brought to an end”, said Texas Governor Greg Abbott of the pending Medicaid de-funding.

After videos were released depicting Planned Parenthood officials across the nation discussing how their providers obtain fetal tissue for medical research, the state moved to cut Medicaid funding from the women’s health organization.

“Preventing health centers affiliated with Planned Parenthood from treating women, in Texas or other states, will without question keep women from getting important preventive care and screening services”, Lawrence said.

“By canceling Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid contract, these politicians are telling women where they can and cannot go for reproductive health care”.

Texas chapters of Planned Parenthood and almost a dozen individual patients filed a lawsuit against the state Monday over the government’s plan to cut Medicaid funding.

The lawsuit was field Monday morning in federal court in Austin.

Three days after receiving notice of their pending exclusion from the Medicaid program, Planned Parenthood was served with massive document requests and subpoenas for patient records, doctors’ notes and test results.

Planned Parenthood is now trying to hang onto Medicaid reimbursements at its Texas clinics, including those that don’t perform abortions.

An extension through the end of February would provide enough time for the clinic’s abortion provider to apply for other privileges or for Planned Parenthood to hire another physician with admitting privileges, McQuade said. It will also severely impact more than 13,000 women who depend on their reproductive health services.

The report correlates some of those self-induced abortions to a lack of acess to a clinic because so many have closed since state lawmakers passed stricters laws governoring abortion clinics. “In addition, each is wholly irrelevant to [the Planned Parenthood affiliates] and to their qualifications as Medicaid providers”. She also wanted to make the matters clear, saying Texas’ move is against the federal law.

On Twitter-verse, a message about home abortions due to the closure of abortion clinics.

Federal courts have issued temporary injunctions stopping Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana from cutting off Medicaid funding while litigation advances. The feds ultimately halted their $9-to-$1 match for the program, forcing Texas to relaunch the program with state dollars alone.