Planned Parenthood uses just 3% of its resources on abortions. The other 97% covers pap smears, cancer screenings, and birth control. You know, services for women's healthcare.
But conservative Indiana politicians hate Planned Parenthood so much, they'd put a million of their constituents at risk.
Indiana became the first state this year to cut off all government funds to Planned Parenthood, fulfilling conservatives' goal of financially weakening organizations that provide abortions. Other conservative states have considered such action in recent years but backed away under the threat of loss of all federal money for their Medicaid programs.
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The Obama administration directed Indiana this week to drop its ban on Planned Parenthood, which the legislature passed this spring after becoming considerably more Republican and conservative in last fall's midterm election. The Department of Health and Human Services said the state cannot legally pick and choose which agencies provide health care to people covered by the federal-state program. The warning letter cited a federal statute that directs the withholding of all Medicaid funding from a state if it violates federal law.
How much money does Indiana stand to lose for its poorest constituents? $4.3 billion.
So, let's take account. In order to prevent a very small number of abortions provided by Planned Parenthood, Indiana conservatives are willing to gut women's healthcare options, and cost a million of their citizens access to healthcare through Medicaid. Yes, that's how much more Indiana conservatives care about unborn fetuses over living, breathing, human beings.
And this same BS is going on all over the country.
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