MO Republicans still want to restrict Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood after abortion ban Read
Despite Missouri’s sweeping abortion ban, some Republicans are still attacking Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid reimbursements. Multiple bills attempt to block funding to abortion-affiliated facilities, like Planned Parenthood, from different avenues.
One would prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements and another would create a constitutional amendment to stop all Medicaid reimbursements from going to the facility, with voter approval. A third zeroes out funding for Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood in the budget.
Similar attempts to cut reimbursements to Planned Parenthood have been struck down by the Cole County Circuit Court as recently as December, after the legislature approved zeroing out the facility’s Medicaid reimbursements in March 2022. Another attempt to cut Medicaid reimbursements through the budget was struck down by the Missouri Supreme Court in 2020.
Planned Parenthood provides services like pap smears, STD testing, birth control and other reproductive and preventative health care for Medicaid patients, according to the organization’s website. Even before Roe v. Wade was struck down, abortion services weren’t covered by Medicaid, except in cases of rape, incest or if the patient’s life was in danger.
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