Bentley Cuts Off Planned Parenthood Funding

[moobu2]

Source: AP via local news WKRG.com

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is cutting off state Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood in the face of undercover videos that implied the group was selling fetal tissue to research groups.

In a statement Thursday, Bentley calls Planned Parenthood’s practices “deplorable.” He says he doesn’t want Alabama to be associated with the group.

A letter from Bentley says the state is terminating an agreement with Planned Parenthood Southeast to serve as a Medicaid provider.

State money to Planned Parenthood has gone to birth control for low-income women, but the exact amount wasn’t immediately clear.

The Alabama Medicaid Agency says Planned Parenthood has provided women on Medicaid with contraceptives such as IUDs and birth control shots.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced a similar decision this week.

http://wkrg.com/2015/08/06/bentley-cuts-off-planned-parenthood-funding/

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[SummerSnow]

1. Next thing you know, they'll start female genital mutilation

to stop low income women from having babies

[jmowreader]

21. FGM doesn't prevent women from having babies

It takes all the pleasure out of baby-making and turns it into an agonizing duty, but it in no way causes the woman to become infertile.

[SummerSnow]

23. I wasnt saying that FGM will prevent pregnancy..

I was saying how they just up the ante on so many women issues regarding their bodies . FGM wouldn't be off the table.

[Skittles]

2. republicans are fucking idiots

[riversedge]

3. Stupid and dumb Republican Governors!

[bulloney]

4. Has this video of PP illegally selling fetal tissues been debunked or not?

If so, then these clowns like Bentley and Jindal have basically given a death sentence to their political careers, showing that they will take stories they know were fabricated and use the lies to accomplish their political agendas. The way these governors are making such decisions leads me to believe there must be an element of truth to the PP videos.

What is it?

[riversedge]

6. Indiana investigated PP and found nothing wrong.

[blackspade]

14. Of course it's been debunked.

But this won't effect these GOP hack's careers because the fucking M$M gives them cover with shitty articles like this.
Articles that don't tell you that the claim against PPH was bullshit to begin with!

[geek tragedy]

20. The voters in Talibama and Loseriana don't care about facts and law and stuff like that

They're rabidly anti-choice regressives who vote for whomever is the biggest asshole.

They will vote Republican no matter what, for the rest of our natural lives.

It's impossible to overstate how politically safe it is to attack women's health providers in those backwaters.

[Marthe48]

24. as I understand it

Planned Parenthood FACILITATES paperwork that allows the parent(s) of the aborted fetus to CONTRIBUTE fetal tissue for research.
Planned Parenthood doesn't buy or sell fetal tissue. PP does charge a small fee for collecting and preserving the tissue, if the abortion happens to be one of the procedures that is 3% of all service PP provides annually, nationally.
The research is legal. The tissue is not sold, it is contributed.

*Idiots like McConnell, Hatch, Upton, Bush (43), McCain, and Lamar Smith have all voted in support of fetal tissue research in the past. Mitt Romney is associated with Stericycle, a company that disposes of fetal tissue as 'medical waste'. But, as usual, the idiots don't realize that their voting record is available and people can see how they voted.

[bulloney]

27. Jeb Bush's family has had a long association with PP. His grandfather was secretary back in the 40s

Hypocrites! Of all the candidates, Jeb should understand the mission and services of PP, but he'd rather pander to his mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging voting base.

This is why the Republican party is doomed to failure in the long term. The only reason it hasn't happened by now is because of shady elections in key states and gerrymandering. Eventually that cannot be sustained and they're screwed unless they change.

[Marthe48]

30. Keep hoping to see fewer Repugs younger than I am.

I can't for the life of me figure out who's voting these horrible people into office.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I don't see why

UnPlanned Parenthood seems a better option to them.

[Skittles]

9. they are anti-women

they do NOT think ahead

[justhanginon]

7. And so the republican war on women goes on and on and on, day after day.

I am a male and this just absolutely disgusts me. I cannot imagine how it must make women feel when they take these actions that affect their lives and health in a very real way. At some point, in some way, this must mindset stop.

[Grassy Knoll]

8. These Idiots Need a Shot Of a Million Poppys

[question everything]

10. Pleae add (Alabama) to the title. Thanks (nt)

[appalachiablue]

11. K & R. No words for this horror-

[Fred Sanders]

12. Another phoney GOP Fundie political charlatan abusing truth and using distorted propaganda from a hate group to pander to other Fundies.

Another Big Lie so big and so repeated even the truth can be suppressed to create and justify obvious mischief evil...where and when have we seen that happen before?

[Marthe48]

25. Control the media control the message

and it just gets harder and harder for the truth to be heard. 2 states have already debunked the stupid lie video, but do you hear that on the evening news? I haven't. I haven't heard that on the news at all.

[blackspade]

13. Fucking asshole

What a cynical/dumb fuck.

"Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is cutting off state Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood in the face of undercover videos that implied the group was selling fetal tissue to research groups."

And what is this bullshit? The 'undercover' videos were lies and should have never been given traction by the M$M.

And this:

State money to Planned Parenthood has gone to birth control for low-income women, but the exact amount wasn’t immediately clear.

The Alabama Medicaid Agency says Planned Parenthood has provided women on Medicaid with contraceptives such as IUDs and birth control shots.

Holy fucking shit. Really? So the fuck what? Why is this part of the story if not to stock the fires of wingnuts.
It's a shitty attempt to link birth control with abortion, both of which are legal and none of anybody's fucking business but a woman and her doctor.

We fucking live in a dystopian future of our own making.

[Triana]

15. How many states now: Louisiana, Alabama...

....?

Any state run by the American Taliban will likely follow suit.

[turbinetree]

16. We now see the faces of right wing hypocrite gods....................

and it is evil-----------------pure evil.
They have now decided upon themselves to continue the attack on a woman, a human being that has rights, and one of them is the right to privacy---------------


Honk -------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. I'm not sure that they can do this

Daniels tried this here in Indiana (I believe) a few years back and the Federal Courts shot it down because Medicaid rules are supposed to allow women flexibility in how/where they obtain their medical care through Medicaid. I could be wrong about this but I hope somebody files a lawsuit. The thing that pisses me off the most about this is that these videos have been debunked and PP has not been actually charged with/convicted of any criminal wrongdoing (unless I've missed something).

[PatrynXX]

18. always play Judas Priests' Breaking the Law right about now

not PP but 2 Governors so far..

so are they going to stop funding Exxon too? that actually puts the money to abortions or Welles Fargo etc. nah.. has nothing to do with abortion or the video

[KT2000]

19. I suppose their state

needs more pregnant low income women and late stage cancer victims. Smart thinking.

All those pulling funding over those videos should be denied any medical treatment that relied on fetal tissue used in the research.

[BlueMTexpat]

22. Just another GOPer

***hole!

[tenderfoot]

26. Yet they yammer on about Sharia Law

[Vinca]

28. The stupidity makes your head ache.

[maxsolomon]

29. They were always looking for an excuse to do just this.

This will do. Things are going to get worse before they get better.