See Hope v. Perales , N. See Alaska v. Planned Parenthood , 28 P. Health Care Cost Containment Sys. Rights v. Myers , P. Maher , A. Wright , No. Clinic for Women, Inc. Sec'y of Admin. Gomez , N. Ellery , No. BDV Mont. May 22, ; Right to Choose v. Byrne , A. Johnson , P. Dep't of Human Resources , P. Celani , No. SCnC Vt. Like many other businesses and nonprofits, Planned Parenthood has been hurt by the pandemic.
Other clinics have felt the strain, too. If lawmakers do not do so, Planned Parenthood said as many as six of its other clinics across the state are at risk of closure. Rebecca Gibron, the chief operating officer of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, said the financial problem has been building for years due to inadequate reimbursement rates, but the pandemic pushed the organization over the edge.
While the closures still leave open more than two dozen Planned Parenthood locations throughout Washington state, it means some counties — including Mason County, where Shelton is located — no longer have a Planned Parenthood location. Now, a Shelton resident who wants to visit Planned Parenthood must travel to Olympia, roughly 25 miles away, or to Bremerton, about 35 miles away, for an appointment.
Dudash said many of the people who relied on the health center in Kent also will have difficulty getting to another center. A good number also are lower income and rely on public transit, which means even a few extra miles can make for a much longer and more inconvenient trip, said Dr. That patient instead was able to get an evaluation at the Kent center that was closer to her, Berry said. Now that the Kent center is closed, that same person would have had to go farther and potentially delay their treatment, Berry said.
A longstanding provision known as the Hyde Amendment excludes Planned Parenthood and other medical providers from using federal dollars to pay for most abortion services, except in instances of rape, incest or when a woman's life is in danger. Abortion opponents argue that even these types of federal payments mean that the government is indirectly supporting abortion, so they have pursued various legal and regulatory approaches to shut down the federal funding streams that currently support organizations like Planned Parenthood.
Indeed, estimates show that the organization receives about 40 percent of its funding from the government. Planned Parenthood gets most of its funding through Medicaid reimbursements and from Title X, a Health and Human Services grant program that funds comprehensive family planning services. Those who support defunding Planned Parenthood cheered when Congress and Trump in effectively overturned an Obama administration rule that had been written to prevent state and local governments from pulling federal funding from Planned Parenthood and other clinics.
But Kinsey Hasstedt, a senior policy manager with the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-issues research organization, said this move was more symbolic than something with a solid legal effect. The question will play out in the courts. Meanwhile, other developments in the past year have been less favorable to those advocating for defunding. In the Republican effort to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, provisions to effectively defund Planned Parenthood were typically included, notably in the " skinny repeal " bill that came close to passing the Senate.
But in the end, none of the bills passed. In the omnibus spending bill that Congress passed and Trump signed in March , defunding supporters were unable to attach a provision to curb federal funding for Planned Parenthood and groups like it. Then, in August , the Senate voted down an amendment to a spending bill sponsored by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Finally, in December , the Supreme Court decided not to hear a pair of cases related to state efforts designed to keep groups like Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding.
In the cases at issue, states argued against the rights of individuals to legally challenge state moves to curb federal funding, including Medicaid dollars, to Planned Parenthood. In the absence of a high court ruling, lower court rulings stand, and they mostly sided with the rights of individuals to challenge state actions.
So the Supreme Court's non-decision was seen as a victory for the Planned Parenthood side. Unlike the other developments listed here, the court's decision was outside the purview of the Trump administration, but it could have had a substantial impact, said Sara Rosenbaum, a health law and policy professor at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health. Now that Democrats have taken control of the U.
House of Representatives, defunding Planned Parenthood through Congress is even more unlikely. One move involves proposed regulations for Title X funding that would, among other things, block funds for Planned Parenthood and other providers that offer abortion services. Another effort involves proposed administration regulations to two separate monthly bills to be sent to people who bought Affordable Care Act marketplace plans that include abortion coverage -- one bill for the bulk of their health coverage, and a second bill exclusively for abortion services.
That adds extra hassle for people who use ACA plans to get services at Planned Parenthood, offering an indirect avenue to de-fund the group and reduce coverage of abortion generally, Ely said. O'Steen, executive director of National Right to Life, an anti-abortion group. The bottom line is that the Trump administration's chances of carrying through on this promise are smaller now that Democrats control the U.
House of Representatives. If the regulatory proposals are finalized, we'll reconsider, but for now, we rate this promise Stalled.
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Email interview with Kinsey Hasstedt, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, Jan 3, As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump promised to defund Planned Parenthood. Private donations and grants make up a small share of the nonprofit's funding.
These donations help Planned Parenthood maintain its sliding-scale fee system, which allows it to charge for its services based on a patient's income. Planned Parenthood facilities across the country have faced bomb threats , arson , vandalism and other attacks over the past few years.
In , an anti-abortion group called the Center for Medical Progress caused an uproar when it released a series of videos that it alleged showed that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue. The director of the group, David Robert Daleiden, along with a fellow center employee, Sandra Susan Merritt, posed as employees of Biomax Procurement Services, a fictitious company they created by registering false documents, including fake driver's licenses. In the clips, they are seen trying to encourage Planned Parenthood representatives to admit to profiting from the sale of fetal tissue.
The two pro-life activists described themselves as "citizen journalists," but federal investigators determined that the videos had been selectively edited.
The activists later released a full version and a transcript of one video that showed a Planned Parenthood official denying claims that the organization makes a profit off the tissues. Richards also denied the allegations, saying that Planned Parenthood's tissue donation program "follows all laws and ethical guidelines.
She added that patients who would like to donate tissue for scientific research may do so, with "no financial benefit" for either the patient or the organization. In , a Houston grand jury indicted Daleiden and Merritt in the production and release of the videos.
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