| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/08/01, 8:56 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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A judge has slammed the book shut on a two-year legal battle between Indiana and Planned Parenthood, ruling that the state cannot prohibit family planning clinics from accepting Medicaid funds. Former GOP Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law in 2011 that prevented Medicaid enrollees from using funds for routine procedures such as breast exams and STD testing at Planned Parenthood, which also performs abortions. Tuesday's ruling means that Indiana has no more legal options to appeal—the Supreme Court has refused to hear the case. But if the high court agrees to hear a challenge to a similar law in another state, Indiana's zombie law could come back to life.
"Over and over again, courts have said that states cannot block people from getting preventive health care at Planned Parenthood, and the vast majority of the American public agrees," said Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund in a statement. "All women, no matter where they live, should be able to get quality, affordable health care from the health care provider they know and
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