A recent study by the Guttmacher Institute, a leading reproductive health research and advocacy group, estimates that unintended pregnancies cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $11.1 billion a year.
$11.1 BILLION a year is what unintended pregnancies cost the U.S. taxpayers. Do the Republicans who are running on fiscal conservatism know this? Now I realize that $11.1 billion a year is like throwing an ice cube into ocean when it comes to the deficit but…
Also, aren’t the Pro-life religious Republicans trying to prevent abortions as well? And to prevent abortions, the most logical thing to do would be make sure men and women have affordable access to information on family planning and birth control, right?
Mitch Daniels (R) Governor of Indiana had not planned to cut funding to Planned Parenthood -- it was not part of his legislative agenda, but since he cares more about his standing with the “social conservatives” then whether women and men can have access to health screenings, family planning and birth control information, he decided to defund Planned Parenthood.
Mitch Daniels is cutting off $1.4 million in Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, money they need to provide cancer screening and other general health services to 9,300 Medicaid clients, both men and women, in its 28 health care centers across Indiana only four of which provide abortions.
Since Mitch has cut off state and federal funding to Planned Parent he is not in compliance with federal regulations and his entire state could lose all federal Medicaid funds.
I also wonder if Mitch Daniels knows that over half of the Indiana births are financed by Medicaid at a cost of $11,250 per birth. Since he has set his state up to lose all of its Medicaid funding how will these births be paid for?
Medicaid does not allow states to stop beneficiaries from getting care they need — like cancer screenings and preventive care — because their provider offers certain other services.
The changes are subject to federal review and approval, and administration officials have made it clear they will not approve the changes in the form adopted by the state.
Most of the money at stake is federal. The federal government pays about 66 percent of the cost of most services covered by Medicaid in Indiana, but for family planning the federal share is 90 percent — an indication of the importance historically attached to such services by Congress.
Mitch Daniels and the most pro-choice state in America have drawn a line in the sand and are willing to lose $4 BILLION in Federal Medicaid Funds.
How is giving up $4 BILLION in Federal Medicaid Funds considered pro-life when those funds are used to help bring unintended babies into the world and keep already-born people alive?
Latest news about Indiana:
Feds support Planned Parenthood in defunding case
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department entered the court battle over a tough new Indiana abortion law that disqualifies Planned Parenthood of Indiana from the Medicaid program, siding with the organization in its request Thursday for a court order blocking the statute as unconstitutional.
In a brief filed electronically after the close of business, Justice Department attorneys said U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt should grant Planned Parenthood's request for an injunction because it blocks Medicaid recipients' freedom to choose the provider of their choice. The law signed May 10 by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels cuts off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood because the organization provides abortions.
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