Obama Administration vs the State of Indiana

Hot Air has the facts and the figures:

The White House has threatened to hold $4.2 billion in federal Medicaid funds from Indiana unless it restores Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider, claiming — as does Planned Parenthood’s national leadership — that the decision leaves women without reliable gynecological care.

However:

According to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, their 28 clinics serve less than 1% of Indiana Medicaid patients.

Well, why would we let facts get in the way of a good story filled with emotional, knee-jerk reactions.

Here is the Huffington Post reaction the Indiana's defunding of Planned Parenthood:

Thousands of low-income Planned Parenthood of Indiana patients were left fending for themselves Tuesday to pay for birth control, breast exams, Pap tests and other medical services while a court battle continued over a new state law that eliminated the organization's Medicaid funding.

Nicole Robbins, a 31-year-old single mother who has been a Planned Parenthood client for six years, said she had intended to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic in Indianapolis on Tuesday to pick up a 2-month supply of birth control pills. Then, the Medicaid recipient learned that the more than $100,000 in private donations the group had raised since May 10 had dried up.

The Ivy Tech Community College student from Indianapolis who is pursuing a physical therapy degree said she's not sure how she'll pay for her birth control.

Update I:

Human Events has the Lila Rose video right here.

Live Action, the activist group that famously caught Planned Parenthood personnel on tape offering contraceptive services, and advice on evading the law, to people they thought were pimps with underage prostitutes, decided to make some phone calls to Indiana Planned Parenthood clinics, and ask the staffers if there were readily available alternative providers that could still accept Medicaid patients for women.  Without exception, all 16 locations they contacted admitted that Medicaid patients still had access to these services.


Update II:

On June 24, U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled that Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood should be restored.

The state of Indiana is expected to challenge this ruling.