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[GK86]

Link. Full article at link.

Kansas cannot cut off Medicaid funding for two Planned Parenthood affiliates, a federal judge said Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kansas, issued the temporary ruling in a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and the organization’s St. Louis regional affiliate.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment planned to cut off funding by Thursday for health services offered at Planned Parenthood facilities, such as exams and cancer screenings, for poor patients receiving health coverage through the state’s Medicaid program. Medicaid funds do not cover abortions.

 

[RPGamer92]

inb4 Republican tears

 

[Slayven]

Good,

 

[rokkerkory]

You want to cut exams and screening? WTH is wrong with you?

 

[Volimar]

Republicans having the worst day ever.




Till November.

 

[HK-47]

Dont you know states rights are more important than women's rights?

 

[woolley]

You want to cut exams and screening? WTH is wrong with you?

Life is only precious when it's in the womb, fuck everyone else.

 

[aeolist]

Life is only precious when it's in the womb, fuck everyone else.

medicaid cannot pay for abortions anyway, this is entirely about trying to destroy PP and cut low-income women off from any reproductive healthcare whatsoever

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

You want to cut exams and screening? WTH is wrong with you?

Destroy PP by any means necessary. This is the level of evil we're dealing with here.

 

[gdt]

That sounds fucking evil.

 

[Eye for an Eye]

The same thing is happening in Florida.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-blocks-key-parts-florida-150834236.html

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle issued his ruling just hours before the law passed by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature was due to take effect.

Planned Parenthood challenged three parts of the law that Gov. Rick Scott signed into law earlier this year, including one that prevents any state or local funds from going to an organization if that organization also provides abortions. Planned Parenthood officials estimated that provision would prevent its clinics from receiving about $500,000 to pay for health-care screenings and a school dropout prevention program.

Hinkle in his ruling said the provision is "based not on any objection to how the funds are being spent ... but solely because the recipients of the funds choose to provide abortions separate and apart from any public funding."

"The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that a government cannot prohibit indirectly - by withholding otherwise-available public funds - conduct that the government could not constitutionally prohibit directly," Hinkle wrote

 

[lightskintwin]

It amazes me how people can claim any moral high ground and be a Republican.

 

[_Ryo_]

Good. Republicans are pure evil nowadays. I mean what they were trying to do here is clearly insane and unconditional. Public funds do not go to abortions, ergo you aren't allowed to cut other unrelated funds based on the fact that the organization does perform abortions.

 

[Hippo_PRIME]

Republicans, especially at the state level, are so clearly anti-poor and anti-women. How does this even happen in the 21st century? It's outrageous that a major political party in the US can take a stance of, "Filthy poors don't deserve cancer screening," and a sizeable portion of voters nod along.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Suck it ladyhaters.