Judge: Planned Parenthood videos 'baloney' in Medicaid fightd

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Judge: Planned Parenthood videos 'baloney' in Medicaid fight
Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Updated 5:15 pm, Tuesday, January 17, 2017


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge deciding whether Texas can block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid dollars scolded attorneys Tuesday for rehashing the debate over secretly recorded videos that Republicans across the U.S. — Texas included — have used to try defunding the nation's largest abortion provider.

"You can give me all this baloney you want," said U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who became visibly frustrated after a Planned Parenthood employee testified for an hour about discussing fetal tissue research on the videos, which were filmed and heavily edited by anti-abortion activists posing as founders of a fake biomedical startup.

Come Saturday, Planned Parenthood will stop receiving Medicaid money in Texas unless Sparks blocks the ouster. His decision is expected later this week.

Federal judges across the U.S. have so far stopped other Republican-controlled states from similarly cutting off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood. That list includes Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Kansas.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Judge-Planned-Parenthood-videos-in-Medicaid-10862799.php

[Scalded Nun]

1. They'll just shop for a friendlier judge, even though this is through federal channels

It's the GOP model in Texas.

[cstanleytech]

2. Yup they keep going from state to state trying get one judge somewhere to say its ok

and then they will try to use that to cripple PP its just to bad that PP cant sue them personally or file a RICO case against the Republicans for this BS.

[Gothmog]

3. Sam Sparks is a great judge-these tapes are all fake