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\"2010-affiliate-header-90380\"On Friday, Planned Parenthood\u00a0of the Heartland and\u00a0the American Civil Liberties Union\u00a0filed suit<\/a> against Arkansas, in an effort to stop\u00a0\u00a0the state from cutting off taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood via Medicaid. Arkansas was one of five states which moved to cut funding <\/a>to the abortion giant\u00a0earlier this year, as evidence of the organization’s unethical and illegal practices went public.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to change the subject, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards offered some of the usual\u00a0rhetoric<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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Governor Hutchinson has no business telling women in Arkansas where they can and cannot go for cancer screenings, birth control, HIV tests and other care. It\u2019s insulting, it\u2019s outrageous, and it\u2019s exactly why we\u2019re fighting in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, in Congress, and anywhere there are efforts to block our patients from accessing the care they need.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As Richards mentions, Planned Parenthood has taken similar legal action in Alabama and Louisiana. What she\u00a0fails to mention is that\u00a0no one is actually trying to tell “women in Arkansas where they can and cannot go for cancer screenings.” States are simply taking appropriate action to halt\u00a0funding to an organization which has been – and continues to be – exposed as having\u00a0little to no\u00a0regard for the law, for basic ethics, or for women’s health and well-being.<\/p>\n

The White House has already warned<\/a> states against defunding Planned Parenthood. But presidential candidate and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, along with\u00a0Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, have committed to stand their ground and allow the\u00a0issue to play out in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Planned Parenthood\u00a0of the Heartland and\u00a0the American Civil Liberties Union\u00a0filed suit against Arkansas, in an effort to stop\u00a0\u00a0the state from cutting off taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood via Medicaid. Arkansas was one of five states which moved to cut funding to the abortion giant\u00a0earlier this year, as evidence of the organization’s unethical and illegal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":73929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[575,695,5167,1655,3553,2536,246,741,703,14,2533,3286],"yoast_head":"\nPlanned Parenthood sues Arkansas over taxpayer funding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the ACLU have filed suit against Arkansas, to try to stop the state from cutting off Medicaid funding to PP.\" \/>\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\/planned-parenthood-sues-arkansas-taxpayer-funding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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