Indiana Will Defy Obama Admin Order to Not De-Fund Planned Parenthood

An interesting story from http://www.lifenews.com/ about Planned Parenthood defunding in Indiana. This follows this post about Planned Parenthood defunding in Texas.  For more that you can do to get involved click  HERE and you can also get a very interesting book HERE!

Indiana Will Defy Obama Admin Order to Not De-Fund Planned Parenthood


State officials in Indiana say they will defy the decision by the Obama administration asking it to not proceed with implementing a new pro-life state law that would revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business.



Yesterday, the top Medicaid official in the Obama administration denied Indiana’s use of its new state law that would deny millions in taxpayer dollars to the Indiana affiliate of the nation’s largest abortion business.



Governor Mitch Daniels signed the law, which would cut off anywhere from $2 million to $3 million the Planned Parenthood abortion business receives in federal funds via the Indiana government through Medicaid. Daniels said that “any organization affected by this provision can resume receiving taxpayer dollars immediately by ceasing or separating its operations that perform abortions.”



However, the Obama administration told the state it can’t implement the new law, with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick denying a request to deny funds saying the federal Medicaid law stipulates that states can’t exclude providers based on the services they provide.



But Marcus Barlow, a spokesman for Indiana’s Family and Social Services Administration, told National Journal, “The way the law was written, it went into effect the moment the governor signed it. We were just advised by our lawyers that we should continue to enforce Indiana law.”



Berwick told the National Journal, “We fully expect Indiana to comply with the law,” in response to the comments from Barlow.



Planned Parenthood has sued Indiana over the new law and U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, who has said she would rule by July 1, is expected to hold a hearing Monday on the law. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/02/indiana-will-defy-obama-admin-order-to-not-de-fund-planned-parenthood/