Obama Admininistration Helping its Best Friend – Planned Parenthood

Last week, the Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee passed a motion requiring that state tax dollars (GPR) and federal Title V monies for family planning be allocated to public health departments. Recipients may not in turn provide these funds to organizations that provide abortion services or abortion referrals, or any organizations that have affiliates that provide abortion services of abortion referrals. This motion pretty much eliminates any of these monies going to Planned Parenthood of WI or any of its affiliates.

Other states are also passing measures to defund Planned Parenthood. In Indiana, a new law deprives PP of IN from receiving federal funds given to the state through Medicaid. There were numbers of other provisions in the Indiana law, all of which are being challenged in court by PP. PP alleges that the law would violate existing contracts and put PP in the position of having to choose between performing abortions and receiving taxpayer dollars. Are we all crying here?

Enter the Obama administration which is mulling over entry into the legal challenge. An Obama official told the New York Times that the administration will not approve changes in the Indiana law and appears ready to threaten Indiana’s Medicaid funds.

The impact of the Indiana law is already being felt — Medicaid recipients who have gone to PP in the past must now find another service provider. PP claims, as it always does, that women will be denied services. In fact, Indiana has over 800 Medicaid service providers.

PP doesn’t like being squeezed. Its “halo” is becoming tarnished, and rightly so. For too long, PP has sold the public on the concept that it helps women. Federal and state statistics reveal that abortion is big business for PP, and it, along with its friends in the Obama administration, will claw and fight to keep its status as the country’s abortion giant.

Barbara Lyons