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I have to hand it to Texas, they don't give up easily. Still quoting the undercover video from the case they already lost in court.
So what's the plan for the 11,000 people who no longer have care, Planned Parenthood should just walk away and watch the disaster.
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In a critical step in a longstanding fight, Texas formally said on Tuesday that it was ending Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood, a move the group said could affect 11,000 patients.
The office of inspector general for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued a final notice terminating Planned Parenthood’s enrollment in the state-funded health care system for the poor. If it is not stopped, the termination will be effective in 30 days.
In a statement on Tuesday night, the office of Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Texans expect that when taxpayer dollars are granted to health care providers, it is only to those who demonstrate that the health and safety of their patients come before a profit motive that puts women at greater risk.”
The termination notice, signed by the inspector general, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., cited violations that found Planned Parenthood was unqualified to provide medical services “in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner.”
The notice cited “extensive undercover video” obtained from a Planned Parenthood center in April 2015. The secretly recorded videos purported to show officials trying to illegally profit from the sale of aborted fetal tissue and discussing the issue with abortion opponents who posed as representatives of a biomedical firm. Planned Parenthood has said that the videos were deceptively edited and that the group did nothing illegal or unethical.
No, this just has to do with just Texas no longer providing funding to PP at the state level. Obama is attempting to protect PP Title X funding at the Federal Level, congress has threatened to block just their funding. Title X funding was a put in place during the Nixon administration to provide health care for low income people, PP accounts for around a third of the funding. I don't see how you just remove funding for PP but not the other clinics.
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Originally Posted by whogo
Those people will just go elsewhere for care.
So what problem have they solved, are the other clinics prepared to provide care for 11,000? What is their basis for removing a perfectly qualified provider. So much time and effort wasted and they are playing games with peoples lives who can ill afford to be inconvenienced.
Hard to believe they are still using a video to make their case.
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