{"id":3682,"date":"2011-06-11T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2013-03-30T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T11:42:27","slug":"update-tn-shelby-county-to-decide-planned-parenthood-funding-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/update-tn-shelby-county-to-decide-planned-parenthood-funding-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: TN Shelby County to decide Planned Parenthood funding this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>TN State Health Commissioner Susan Cooper has granted Shelby County (where Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region is located) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2011\/jun\/11\/decision-planned-parenthood-memphis-delayed-week\/\">until Friday June 17 to respond<\/a> to the Governor&#8217;s request that county health departments take over all publicly-funded family planning services. PPGMR receives upwards of $700,000 a year in taxpayer dollars. <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/breaking-tn-only-one-county-short-of-defunding-planned-parenthood\/\">Yesterday<\/a>, Davidson County (where the Nashville branch of PP is located) announced it was taking over family planning services, effectively stripping $335,000 from Planned Parenthood:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Davidson County decision was cheered by anti-abortion activists. Senate Speaker and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said, \u201c<strong>We are at long last moving towards the final stages of the Planned Parenthood shell game.<\/strong> It has always been the ambition of Republicans in the legislature to defund this organization. I\u2019d like to praise the governor for working to completely turn off the spigot of taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was this little gem from Planned Parenthood, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month when it appeared the defunding amendment was added to the budget, Planned Parenthood of Memphis called the move a \u201ccalculated, politically motivated maneuver\u201d and said it was \u201coutrageous that extremists\u201d in the legislature would deny women access to preventative health care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except if the legislature is just changing the provider from Planned Parenthood to county health departments, that&#8217;s not denying anyone access to care&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TN State Health Commissioner Susan Cooper has granted Shelby County (where Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region is located) until Friday June 17 to respond to the Governor&#8217;s request that county health departments take over all publicly-funded family planning services. PPGMR receives upwards of $700,000 a year in taxpayer dollars. Yesterday, Davidson County (where the Nashville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[689,14,690],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UPDATE: TN Shelby County to decide Planned Parenthood funding this week - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/update-tn-shelby-county-to-decide-planned-parenthood-funding-this-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPDATE: TN Shelby County to decide Planned Parenthood funding this week - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TN State Health Commissioner Susan Cooper has granted Shelby County (where Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region is located) until Friday June 17 to respond to the Governor&#8217;s request that county health departments take over all publicly-funded family planning services. 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