Planned Parenthood backers protest Florida defunding bill

But Planned Parenthood rejected Bevin’s claims on Thursday, saying it had fully complied with instructions from the cabinet’s Office of Inspector General by opening the new clinic and beginning to offer abortions as part of the state’s standard licensure procedure. “Abortion facilities are not allowed to commence performing abortions in Kentucky without a license”.

The bill signing comes four years after Republicans made other funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, which the organization said caused it to close five clinics.

Under the legislation that brought a standing room only crowd to the Capitol, Planned Parenthood would lose more than a quarter of a million dollars a year.

The organization says it’s too early to say whether or not it will have to close any locations. They urged the panel to “abandon your plan to issue subpoenas or immediately schedule a special meeting of the Select Panel in order to vote on your proposed use of compulsory process to force healthcare providers and others to disclose the names of doctors, medical students, and clinic personnel”. “Without these subpoenas, the American people and the House itself would be left to speculate about what is going on in the fetal tissue industry. Cruz says go by what candidates do, not what they say”.

Barbara Zdravecky, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood in Southwest and Central Florida, said Planned Parenthood is able to see three times as many low-income women in Collier than what the health department would be able to do. I’ve had women tell me they do some excellent work so I think you also have to put that into account, but I would defund Planned Parenthood because of their view and the fact of their work on abortion. The committee subpoena to the University of New Mexico is along similar lines, requesting identities of employees who have worked with tissue, a list of tissue suppliers, and documentation of any UNM physician who assisted Southwestern Women’s Options as an abortion provider.

Trump – while condemning Planned Parenthood’s abortions and stating he does not support direct taxpayer funding of abortion – continues to praise the supposed “good” Planned Parenthood does, insists on pointing it out, and assures voters he would consider funding some of Planned Parenthood’s activities.

Legislators who introduced the bill said they were prompted by the undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress showing top Planned Parenthood officials selling aborted babies’ body parts. But Blackburn did not rule out that a request might be forthcoming, and Schakowsky said she expected one. “It’s appalling that legislators are pushing their extreme agenda without considering its risky effects”, she said.

“The states can make a real difference”, Cruz said.

“It really is disingenuous to be talking about cuts to health care at an organization that provides religious counseling, but no health care”, she said.

“We have done this because it is part of our mission”, Zdravecky said.