Jindal cuts off state Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood – IOTW Report

Jindal cuts off state Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has canceled a contract that provides Planned Parenthood with state Medicaid funds.

Medicaid, the joint federal and state health insurance program for the poor, represents a major source of the group’s government funding, at about 75 percent nationwide. 

In a statement, Jindal said that under his state’s contract with the pro-abortion rights organization, “either party can choose to cancel the contract at will after providing written notice.”

The state says it has given 30 days notice to Planned Parenthood, which is under fire after a series of undercover videos showing officials from the group discussing fetal tissue.

State attempts to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood have been successfully challenged in court in the past.

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6 Comments on Jindal cuts off state Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood

  1. …Jindal said that under his state’s contract with the pro-abortion rights organization, “either party can choose to cancel the contract at will…”

    State attempts to cut off Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood have been successfully challenged in court in the past.

    Those two statements are mutually exclusive. If the contract can be revoked unilaterally, then no court can change that.

    Article 1, Section 10: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

    Remember that court decisions are called Case Law. The power to impair contracts was NOT GRANTED to the federal gov’t and it was DENIED to the state governments. So any court overturning Jindal’s action is an unconstitutional usurpation of power.

    Governor Jindal should just point that out, ignore the ruling, and continue cut off payments to PP.

    Problem solved.

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