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Planned Parenthood Sues Alabama: State Has No Choice But to Fund Us
Sunday, August 30, 2015 6:50
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Planned Parenthood Southeast on Friday filed a federal lawsuit over Gov. Robert Bentley’s effort to cut off Medicaid payments to the organization’s Alabama clinics.
The organization said Bentley’s effort penalizes low-income women who seek contraceptive and preventative health care services at the clinics. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Montgomery. It accuses Bentley of violating a federal law that they said requires Medicaid patients to have their choice of provider to receive family planning care.
“We’re in court today because each and every patient, and her ability to make her own deeply personal and private health care decisions, matters,” said Staci Fox, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast.
Source: http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/planned-parenthood-sues-alabama-state-has-no-choice-but-to-fund-us/
