“Brownback is using health care as a political football, and it’s Kansans who will pay the price if he’s not stopped. “Governor Brownback’s own administration, including the Board of Healing Arts and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment vindicated Planned Parenthood of the egregious allegations made against it in 2015,” McQuade said in her statement. In January, a Houston grand jury convened to investigate Planned Parenthood instead indicted two of the anti-abortion activists involved in the making of the videos.
Similar investigations in other states, including Missouri, have also cleared Planned Parenthood clinics. Earlier this year, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts said it was not taking any action against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri after failing to find evidence of wrongdoing. Kansas’ move comes after anti-abortion activists last summer released highly edited videos purporting to show that Planned Parenthood clinics illegally sold fetal tissue for profit. “Denying Kansans on Medicaid access to Planned Parenthood services flies in the face of the clear federal guidance that protects the rights of patients to see their provider of choice.” Brownback to punish the women and men who have freely chosen Planned Parenthood for their health care for decades,” she said. Sam Brownback of using health care “as a political football.” In a written statement, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, Laura McQuade, denounced Kansas’ decision and accused Gov. Courts in four states have blocked those moves. Just two weeks after the Obama administration warned states that ending Medicaid funding of Planned Parenthood may run afoul of federal law, Kansas on Tuesday terminated the Medicaid contract of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri.Įleven states, including Missouri, have now cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.
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