Judge Ends Indiana-Planned Parenthood Battle.

[elleng]

Source: nyt/ap

A judge on Tuesday made permanent her order barring Indiana from denying Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics, ending the state's two-year legal fight.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt issued his permanent injunction after the U.S. Supreme Court in May refused to hear Indiana's appeal in the case. Days later, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued an administrative ruling siding with Planned Parenthood.

Indiana had sought to prevent Medicaid enrollees from accessing health care at clinics operated by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky because the organization provides abortions.

Planned Parenthood, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, had argued that a 2011 Indiana law targeting the organization should be blocked because it probably conflicted with a federal Medicaid statute that protects patients' rights to make their own decisions about health care providers.

"This decision recognizes the rights and liberties of health care providers and the women they serve," said ACLU of Indiana Executive Director Jane Henegar.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/30/us/ap-us-planned-parenthood-indiana.html?hp

[warrant46]

1. Religious fanatics and their evil dogma

The American Taliban and their acolytes unfortunately like Zombies will be back

[SkyDaddy7]

2. SO TRUE!!

SO SAD!!

[Auntie Bush]

3. Thank goodness for people like Judge Pratt.

[CTyankee]

4. thank god for the ACLU. They have some of the cream of the crop of top law schools in this

country who devote themselves to work on cases like these!

I worked for the ACLU both in the national office in NYC and the DC office and their attorneys were the best and the brightest. I remember briefly meeting Ruth Bader Ginsburg who was counsel for the ACLU's Women's Right Project way back in the mid 1970s...

[Liz_Estrada]

10. Yes, thank god or dog or the FSM for the ACLU!

As a Hoosier, it's gratifying to have a victory like this, and to think that the little bit I send them each month might have helped.

[RainDog]

5. How much money do conservatives waste fighting religious wars thru govt?

How many states have to deal with this bullshit, over and over again?

If a religious person opposes health care for women - they have that right to be assholes.

They don't have the right to expect this nation to enforce their asshole views.

[Hekate]

6. That is a real victory. Good news. nt

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. Permanent? That means that it is ripe for an appeal. It doesn't mean "permanent" in plain English.

[Indianademocrat91]

8. It is Permanent

The State Supreme Court already refused to take it up so it is dead

[AnotherMcIntosh]

11. These people are like rust. They don't give up. They'll be back.

[sheshe2]

9. Great news elleng!

Thanks~

[davidpdx]

12. A good win for the women in Indiana

People in other states are going to have to start fighting harder as the pukes come after PP on a state by state basis.

[elleng]

13. PP will fight back.

We've all got to support it.

[Left Coast2020]

14. I hope this helps arguements for cases in other states.

A little momentum for womens rights.

[elleng]

15. With similar facts it might, as its a Federal court decision.

'Indiana had sought to prevent Medicaid enrollees from accessing health care at clinics operated by Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky because the organization provides abortions.

Planned Parenthood, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, had argued that a 2011 Indiana law targeting the organization should be blocked because it probably conflicted with a federal Medicaid statute that protects patients' rights to make their own decisions about health care providers.

"This decision recognizes the rights and liberties of health care providers and the women they serve," said ACLU of Indiana Executive Director Jane Henegar.'

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Brave, female judge. The crazies will be going after her now.

[iandhr]

17. She was appointed by Barack Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Walton_Pratt

Next time some moron here thinks of posting that there is no difference between Obama and Bush remember this.

[Scurrilous]

18. K & R