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Friday, July 8, 2011
Hard News Planned Parenthood sues North Carolina
Posted By Mustang Sally, Mayor of Bang Town on Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:38 AM
Late yesterday afternoon, news broke in Raleigh that "two Planned Parenthood affiliates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to invalidate part of the new state budget that cuts it off from federal or state funds for family planning."
According to the MSNBC:
The budget written by Republicans in control of the General Assembly for the first time in more than a century states that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates are forbidden from receiving any contracts or grants from the state health agency. The lawsuit filed in Greensboro's federal court by Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina contends the group is being punished for its abortion-rights advocacy, saying that violates its free-speech protections.The organization is barred by law from using public money to perform abortions and uses the government contracts to provide family planning or teen pregnancy prevention services, yet is being singled out because Planned Parenthood supports abortion rights, the lawsuit said. Efforts to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood affiliates in North Carolina are similar to those in Kansas and Indiana, which were also met with federal lawsuits, the group's attorneys said.
Right on! Planned Parenthood does more than provide abortions, for some women this is the only health care they can afford. Why doesn't the GOP get that?
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