‘Planned Parenthood Is Flailing': Bobby Jindal Fights Back After Louisiana Sued for Terminating Medicaid Contract

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Heritage Foundation:

Planned Parenthood announced it will sue Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for terminating its Medicaid contract with the state.

 

“Planned Parenthood is flailing,” said Mike Reed, Jindal’s communications director, in a statement to The Daily Signal. “This lawsuit is without merit and the state will aggressively defend our right to cancel the contract.”

 

The lawsuit is the latest in a series of efforts Planned Parenthood has made to exonerate itself following allegations that it is engaged in the sale of fetal body parts.

 

Jindal, a Republican, ended Planned Parenthood’s contract with Louisiana following the release of several undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress depicting Planned Parenthood officials’ discussing the sale of fetal body parts at the organization’s affiliates.

 

Elizabeth Slattery, a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said that “even though the Obama administration is attempting to pressure states not to cut Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding, states are within their rights to do so if Planned Parenthood has violated the law.”

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Kansas Cut Planned Parenthood’s Funding. Then the Obama Administration Retaliated.

 

More people are paying attention to Planned Parenthood’s government funding following a series of undercover videos. But the fight over public funding for the abortion giant has been brewing for quite some time and is likely to get more rancorous. Case in point: Kansas.

 

The state legislature and governor successfully moved to divert $300,000 in public funds away from Planned Parenthood in 2011. Their actions have not gone unnoticed: The White House has since responded to the state by cutting its Medicaid funding by nearly the same amount.

 

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law legislation that funded local health clinics instead of Planned Parenthood, meaning overall funding for health care was not reduced. In fact, the bill also directed another $300,000 to the Sen. Stan Clark pregnancy maintenance initiative program, which “awards grants to not-for-profit organizations for programs that provide services for women which enable them to carry their pregnancies to term.

 

http://dailysignal.com/2015/08/28/kansas-cut-planned-parenthoods-funding-then-the-obama-administration-retaliated/