{"id":70632,"date":"2015-08-13T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=70632"},"modified":"2015-08-13T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T16:08:00","slug":"obama-administration-states-defunding-planned-parenthood-are-breaking-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/obama-administration-states-defunding-planned-parenthood-are-breaking-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama administration: States defunding Planned Parenthood are breaking the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Obama Administration has reacted to two states\u2019 decisions to defund Planned Parenthood with a warning, claiming\u00a0that they are breaking federal law, Life News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2015\/08\/12\/obama-admin-threatens-alabama-and-louisiana-after-they-de-fund-planned-parenthood\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to federal Health and Human Services Department spokesman Ben Wakana, \u201cLongstanding Medicaid laws prohibit states from restricting individuals who have coverage through Medicaid from receiving care from a qualified provider,\u201d such as Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Live Action News has <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-alabama-governor-terminates-states-medicaid-agreement-planned-parenthood\/\">previously reported<\/a> that Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Governor Robert Bentley of Alabama chose to break their states\u2019 Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood in the wake of undercover videos revealing the organization\u2019s practice of selling the remains of aborted babies\u00a0(allegedly doing so for profit) and illegally altering abortion procedures to obtain organs in optimal condition.\u00a0Authorities in both states contend that, contrary to Wakana\u2019s claim of illegality, the terms of their Medicaid contracts allow for the termination of the states\u2019 relationship with their Planned Parenthood affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>As Live Action has also <a href=\"\/news\/why-isnt-white-house-watching-planned-parenthood-videos\/\">covered<\/a>, despite the administration\u2019s unwavering defense of the abortion giant during the ongoing scandal, Press Secretary Josh Earnest admitted he had not actually watched the undercover videos and indicated other White House officials have not been willing to, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama Administration has reacted to two states\u2019 decisions to defund Planned Parenthood with a warning, claiming\u00a0that they are breaking federal law, Life News reports. According to federal Health and Human Services Department spokesman Ben Wakana, \u201cLongstanding Medicaid laws prohibit states from restricting individuals who have coverage through Medicaid from receiving care from a qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":56460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4178,19,695,20,4691,2536,4176,4561,3704,741,2819,4175,14,2533],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama administration: States defunding Planned Parenthood are breaking the law - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Obama admin says fed&#039;l law prohibits states from &quot;restricting individuals&quot; from receiving care at PP; states say they have right to end Medicaid contracts.\" \/>\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\/obama-administration-states-defunding-planned-parenthood-are-breaking-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama administration: States defunding Planned Parenthood are breaking the law - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Obama admin says fed&#039;l law prohibits states from &quot;restricting individuals&quot; 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