The federal government has sent warnings to 10 states that it is illegal to cut off Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for medical services without evidence of wrongdoing.
It is laughable — dishonest is more like it — when Republicans say they are all about the fetus, not about punishing adult women who make legal medical choices.Latest example: Missouri.
Federal Judge Kristine Baker today issued a preliminary injunction against the 2015 Arkansas law that aimed at ending abortions by medication in Arkansas.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office has filed for permission to appeal a January order from U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker that granted class certification in the case concerning Gov. Hutchinson's efforts to cut off Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood.
The New York Times reports that David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, anti-abortion activists who made surreptitious and apparently heavily edited vidoes of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue, were indicted today by a Houston grand jury called to investigate Planned Parenthood.
Federal Judge Kristine Baker heard arguments today from Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to make a class action for all its Medicaid patients in the lawsuit aimed at preventing the state from refusing to cover non-aboriton medical services at the organization's two clinics in the state.
Federal Judge Kristine Baker today extended until March 14 her temporary order that blocks the state from enforcing a new law that would likely end the use of a pill to end early stage abortions in Arkansas.
Planned Parenthood of Arkansas's political affiliate, PP Voters of Arkansas, has announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. This follows a national endorsement by the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
A federal judge has called a temporary halt to a state law aimed at preventing drug-=induced miscarriages by abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood.
Civilians and police officers were hospitalized after Colorado Springs police officers responded to a 911 call about an active shooter at a local Planned Parenthood location. The standoff has continued for hours, with nine people admitted to hospitals.
A Portland woman broke up a Planned Parenthood protest by counter-protesting about services she's been provided at the clinic, including birth control pills and treatment for urinary tract infections and yeast infections. Particularly and loudly she screamed, "Yeast infections!"
In addition to barring poor women from using Planned Parenthood in Texas for general medical services, the state of Texas — in raids coordinated with accompanying news reporters — has gone after medical records of poor women who've received abortions. It's an assault on women's privacy and dignity.