Indiana case before U.S. Supreme Court could help red states defund Planned Parenthood

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The Health & Hospital Corp. of Marion County's appeal to Supreme Court could prevent Planned Parenthood from suing states that ban it from Medicaid.

that Marion County’s public health agency is pursuing could make it easier for red states across the country to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.

For years, Planned Parenthood has successfully used a federal law passed after the Civil War to block efforts to ban the reproductive health care provider from receiving Medicaid funds because it provides abortions. That’s one reason why Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and 21 other Republican attorneys general have intervened., Rokita argues that Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit in 2011 interfered in a matter that should have been worked out between the state and federal health officials.

 

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Poor people, and women, or whoever politicians single out, don't get too worked over this; you are being used as political pawns right now, and after the mid-terms, you will be forgotten, thrown away like last month's magazines.

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