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Hillary Clinton wants to end the Hyde Amendment Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” -- the stories our readers have told us they...
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on vacation through September 6. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” -- the stories our readers have told us they especially liked over the last five...
By Dave Andrusko On Tuesday Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation that would give new powers to the director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the state’s Medicaid program, “to decide that certain individuals or entities cannot participate in...
Editor’s note. This appeared at ClinicQuotes. A clinic worker commenting on a graph with states colored different shades based on how many abortions they had: Hey look, a bunch of heat maps of abortion stats in the US! The above shows abortion rates in each state....
By Dave Andrusko As anticipated, on Monday Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast filed a federal lawsuit in response to the October decision by the state of Texas to begin the process to end the organization’s Medicaid funding. Similar court challenges have been filed in...
By Calvin Freiburger Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards has announced that her organization is filing a lawsuit against the state of Texas over its attempts to block Medicaid dollars from going to the abortion giant. “This is illegal and a violation of federal...
Editor’s note. The following update comings from Louisiana Right to Life, NRLC’s state affiliate. Last week U.S. District Court Judge John deGravelle ordered the state to continue using taxpayer dollars to fund Planned Parenthood. On Wednesday, the state Department of...
By Dave Andrusko On Wednesday U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, the same judge who overturned an Alabama law that required abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, ordered the state to immediately restore Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood....
By Dave Andrusko In mid-August pro-life Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson moved to cut state funding of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, ordering the Department of Human Services to sever its Medicaid contract with the abortion provider. Referring to the...
By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics The Medicaid program, which provides insurance coverage for lower income Americans, has expanded under the Obama Health Care law and now covers over one-fifth of Americans. Yet it is now set to face...