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11-15-2017, 06:14 PM
Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Letting Arkansas Block Medicaid Funding from Planned Parenthood
A federal appeals court upheld a three-judge panel’s ruling Monday that Arkansas can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request, brought by three Planned Parenthood Great Plains patients, to reconsider the August decision which vacated an injunction preventing Arkansas from stopping Medicaid payments to the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) decided to end the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood in 2015 following the release of undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress which showed the abortion group’s alleged trafficking in unborn baby body parts.
"It is important for the state to have the clear authority to terminate Medicaid providers who act in unethical ways and in violation of state policy," Gov. Hutchinson said in a statement. "The decision early on to terminate Planned Parenthood as a provider was the right decision, and I am delighted with the decision of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming the right of the State to take this action."
Judd Deere, a spokesman for Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, supported Monday's ruling in a statement (http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/nov/14/court-refusal-lets-state-halt-agency-fu-1/) to Arkansas Online.
"Attorney General Rutledge is pleased with the court's decision to deny the request for rehearing, which reaffirms that Planned Parenthood and the three patients it* recruited could not contest in federal court Arkansas's determination that a medical provider has engaged in misconduct that merits disqualification from the Medicaid program," Deere said in an email.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/11/14/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-letting-arkansas-block-medicaid-funding-from-planned-parenthood-n2409544
A federal appeals court upheld a three-judge panel’s ruling Monday that Arkansas can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request, brought by three Planned Parenthood Great Plains patients, to reconsider the August decision which vacated an injunction preventing Arkansas from stopping Medicaid payments to the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) decided to end the state’s Medicaid contract with Planned Parenthood in 2015 following the release of undercover videos by the Center for Medical Progress which showed the abortion group’s alleged trafficking in unborn baby body parts.
"It is important for the state to have the clear authority to terminate Medicaid providers who act in unethical ways and in violation of state policy," Gov. Hutchinson said in a statement. "The decision early on to terminate Planned Parenthood as a provider was the right decision, and I am delighted with the decision of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming the right of the State to take this action."
Judd Deere, a spokesman for Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, supported Monday's ruling in a statement (http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/nov/14/court-refusal-lets-state-halt-agency-fu-1/) to Arkansas Online.
"Attorney General Rutledge is pleased with the court's decision to deny the request for rehearing, which reaffirms that Planned Parenthood and the three patients it* recruited could not contest in federal court Arkansas's determination that a medical provider has engaged in misconduct that merits disqualification from the Medicaid program," Deere said in an email.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/11/14/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-letting-arkansas-block-medicaid-funding-from-planned-parenthood-n2409544