Maryland first to mitigate any Planned Parenthood cuts

They also passed a ban on fracking and voted to give the state attorney general more power to sue the Trump administration – allowing him to go around the governor if necessary.

Under the new measure, Maryland will mitigate any federal cuts to Planned Parenthood by directing $2 million from the state’s Medicaid budget and $700,000 for the state’s general fund to family planning services.

Attorneys general from 16 states came out Thursday in support of a Planned Parenthood lawsuit challenging an OH law that would deny state and federal funds to organizations providing abortions.

The omnibus spending bill carrying Pence’s Planned Parenthood defunding measure passed the House on February 19, 2011 by a vote of 235 to 189. Six clinics have closed since then, in Burlington, Cumberland, Hudson and Morris counties. Would you join us by making a donation today to this important work?

Because most community health centers are funded nearly completely through Title X funding, many centers would shut down under the proposed resolution.

This represents the thirteenth documented time in 2017 that Planned Parenthood has transported a patient from one of its abortion facilities to the emergency room. In addition, from 2009 to 2013, breast cancer cases climbed 6.3 percent among all New Jersey women, 8.1 percent among black women, and 25.8 percent among Latinas, the report noted.

In the 650 Planned Parenthood health centers that exist in the United States, women and men are able to receive sexual and reproductive health care, HIV testing, mammograms, education, as well as abortions.

Planned Parenthood celebrated the original Obama-era rule, hailing it as a safeguard to ensure reproductive health care for people regardless of whether they have insurance.

“They are going to take us down”, she said at the Tiburon Golf Club in North Naples.

These barriers to healthcare, when combined with racism and classism, have left communities of color particularly at risk, added Loretta Winters, president of the Gloucester County NAACP. “They are hell-bent on holding women back”, Davis said.

The state Department of Health and Attorney General’s Office declined to comment to HuffPost.

Taking away these funds could result in the closing of clinics in various states. The organization relies heavily on federal funding, and with a Republican House and Senate, the continuation of that funding is unlikely.

“The largest source ($553.7 million, or 43%) was from government reimbursements received from government programs for health services provided (e.g., Medicaid) and grants (e.g., the Title X Family Planning Program)”, said CRS.

In Nevada, state lawmakers and health advocates have promoted bills to allow women to access 12-month supplies of birth control and require all health insurers to cover contraceptives at no extra charge.

I know firsthand that Planned Parenthood health centers are an irreplaceable resource for lifesaving cancer screenings, prevention, and referrals for women in California. The U.S. District Court for OH sided with Planned Parenthood in August, and OH appealed to the Sixth Circuit. “If the U.S.is willing bomb Syria for gassing babies to death, the least we should do is stop enabling the dismemberment deaths of babies in America with our tax money”.

Republicans in Congress, who have been fighting for years to strip funding from Planned Parenthood, are newly invigorated in this effort thanks to the GOP control of the House, Senate, and White House.

Moira Pyhala, president of the Planned Parenthood advocacy club at UAA, expressed the importance of keeping affordable health care providers not only in Anchorage, but all over the nation.

More than 400 people rallied in front of the Texas Capitol on Wednesday, calling on state legislators to stop trying to block Planned Parenthood from offering reproductive health services. She apparently has no problem trampling all over my rights as a taxpayer to help fund these very valuable facilities and the important work they do to help people making sensible and sometimes very hard family-planning decisions.