Texas Officials Raid Planned Parenthood

[niyad]

(is there a person with two arcing brain cells who believes their bs excuse for doing this?)


Texas Officials Raid Planned Parenthood


Just three days after Texas officials announced their plan to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, investigators from the state’s Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) raided a handful of the women’s healthcare provider’s clinics, demanding patients’ records and billing details as well as employee information.




Last week, state officials from the Texas Office of the Inspector General (a division of the HHSC led by Stuart Brown) served subpoenas to Planned Parenthood facilities in Brownsville, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and ordered to surrender documents – including Medicaid records dating back to 2010 – to authorities within 24 hours. Though it has not been confirmed, local sources report officials are investigating suspicions of misspending of federal Medicaid funds on the part of the women’s healthcare provider.

On Monday, in a letter to Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas, the HHSC and Inspector General Brown (with support from Gov. Greg Abbott) announced the state will cancel contracts between Medicaid and the women’s healthcare provider, accusing the organization of no longer capably “performing medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal, and ethical manner,” citing surreptitiously recorded videos of Planned Parenthood facilities which falsely claim to depict the trafficking of fetal body parts. Should Texas proceed in withdrawing Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the state will not only be in violation of federal law, but it will also cut off access to quality reproductive healthcare to tens of thousands of Texas women.

“Governor Abbott’s political grandstanding is on full display this morning,” said executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes Yvonne Gutierrez Thursday. “Representatives from the Texas Office of Inspector General showed up at Planned Parenthood centers in Brownsville, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio looking for an excuse to take healthcare away from thousands of women and men who rely on Planned Parenthood for preventative care.”

An avalanche of anti-abortion legislation and state and federal investigations has descended on Planned Parenthood since the release of several deceptively edited and repeatedly debunked videos by the anti-abortion group Center of Medical Progress (CMP) and its leader David Daleidan. To date, all investigations – including those carried out in Texas – have found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Planned Parenthood. On Thursday, Ken Lambrecht, Capital Region Chief Executive Officer of Planned Parenthood Texas fingered the attacks on Texas clinics as “politically motivated”, dismissing the action as “a fishing expedition.” Officials from the HHSC have declined to comment (of COURSE they have, because this is the truth!. fuck those woman-hating gestational slavers)

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/10/29/texas-officials-raid-planned-parenthood/

[CatWoman]

1. Feds: Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid May Be Illegal

The Obama administration has warned state officials that pushing Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program could put Texas at odds with federal law.

Officials with the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services contacted the state Medicaid director on Tuesday to give notice that removing Planned Parenthood from the program "may be in conflict with federal law" because poor women who obtain family planning services through Medicaid would be limited from receiving health care from the qualified provider of their choice.

The feds' intervention comes a week after Texas health officials announced they were working to boot Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, the joint state-federal insurer of the very poor and disabled. This would cut off taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood clinics that provide well-woman care, like cancer screenings, birth control and pregnancy tests. Planned Parenthood clinics that accept Medicaid dollars are already barred from performing abortions.

Three days later, Bowen’s office delivered letters and subpoenas to Planned Parenthood facilities across the state, requesting information on specific services provided to Medicaid patients, appointment books and ultrasound records for Medicaid patients who had donated fetal tissue after obtaining an abortion.

http://www.texastribune.org/2015/10/28/feds-kicking-planned-parenthood-out-medicaid-may-b/

[niyad]

3. these woman-hating assholes are so arrogant that they simply do not care. is it going to take

federal troops to bring them to their senses? they may be creating the real situation that they feared in jade helm 15, and wouldn't that be a kick in their behinds?

[Rex]

2. Yes Texas, we've come to this extreme. From Jade Helm 15 quackery to the real and deadly

deal of shutting down health clinics. WTF is up with RAIDING a health clinic? RAIDING?

How far we have fallen. What a disgrace.

[niyad]

4. no war on women, right?? right--it is an all-out campaign of terror.

[gordianot]

5. How about violation of HIPPAA I thought medical records are protected, even in Texas?

[niyad]

6. don't forget when that woman-hating bastard phil klein in kansas demanded all the clinic records.

apparently, women have no rights in this area when the woman-haters want their information.

[smirkymonkey]

7. +1000

[joeybee12]

8. Abbott and his thugs are scum...knr

[hifiguy]

9. Eeyup, it's the Stasi, now.

[dembotoz]

10. Kristallnacht

[Takket]

11. doesn't a judge need to issue a warrant for a raid?

Who issued the warrant and on what grounds?