State, Planned Parenthood Reach Agreement on First-Term Abortion Definition

“With nearly half of its total revenue coming from taxpayers, Planned Parenthood further enriches itself by selling organs and other tissue from infants robbed of their lives by abortion“. The council’s governing board will vote on the letters at its next, not-yet-scheduled meeting.

“AHCA’s new interpretation is grossly inconsistent with years of previous inspections and outside of both the regulations and accepted medical standards”, Planned Parenthood’s executive director, Laura Goodhue, said in a statement earlier this month. The governor does not directly control the agency, but she appoints all of its board members.

They found three have performed procedures outside the scope of their licenses and one has not kept proper records on disposing fetal remains.

And guess what? None of the states investigating Planned Parenthood in the wake of the videos have found any wrongdoing either. “If they were serous about reducing abortions, they would work with Planned Parenthood to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies”.

Planned Parenthood says they’ve been following the 2006 rule defining the first trimester as the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and the first 14 weeks since a woman’s last menstrual cycle. Federal law allows abortion providers to be paid for processing fees. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) confirming that HHS knows of “no violation” of federal fetal tissue laws “in connection with the research done at our agencies”. Thus the “second-trimester” abortions the agency is accusing the offices in question of performing happened between the 12th and 14th weeks. Planned Parenthood has denied that, saying it facilitates legal tissue donation at a few of its locations. They respectively provided 37 percent and 33 percent of the 2014 abortions.

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC).

A rally Tuesday to support Planned Parenthood drew Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul and top Hudson Valley Democrats to Yonkers. More than 200,000 people visit Planned Parenthood websites each day for important information about reproductive and sexual health care, including where to find a local health center for breast and cervical cancer screenings or birth control.

Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire and Utah are all threatening to cut off state funding, which is supposed to help supply services to some Medicaid patients in their respective states.