What does the law say on funding abortions?
Title X
does not allow federal funds to be used for abortions. Medicaid, however,
does allow government money to be spent on them — in very restricted cases.
The 1977 Hyde Amendment dictated that federal Medicaid funds could only be used to fund abortions in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother. However, some states have expanded cases in which they will provide funds. Currently, 17 states allow funds to be used for "medically necessary" abortions. In those cases that these states count as medically necessary but that are not permitted by the federal guidelines,
states cover the cost alone.
Fact Check: How Does Planned Parenthood Spend That Government Money?
7. Now.....let me support that statement that
nobody needs government supported Planned Parenthood.
"Miss Tennessee, 21-year-old Hannah Robison, helped perpetuate the myth that ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood
could hurt women’s access to health care.
[She said:]
I don’t think Planned Parenthood funding should be cut off. The $500 million that gets given to Planned Parenthood every single year goes to female care. It goes for scanning for cancer, it goes for mammograms.
And if we don’t give that funding to Planned Parenthood, those women will be out of health care for reproductive causes.
a. First, as the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters
noted,
Planned Parenthood doesn’t offer mammograms. “Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Liz Clark confirmed … [that] the organization does not provide mammograms at any of its health centers,”
reported PolitiFact Georgia in August.
b. Nor is this a recent development. It’s not just beauty pageant contestants who are confused ...: President Barack
Obama said in one of the 2012 presidential debates that “millions of women all across the country … rely on Planned Parenthood … for mammograms.”
[Hard to tell when Obama is lying, or simply wrong.]
When FactCheck.org looked into Obama’s claim, it
reported that “
Planned Parenthood health centers do not offer mammography.”
8. Robison’s
claim that “women will be out of health care for reproductive causes” if Planned Parenthood no longer receives taxpayer dollars is also untrue. In fact, as Alliance Defending Freedom has documented,
there are 13,540 health care clinics that could help women. (In contrast, Planned Parenthood has 665 clinics.)
If Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding is ended, that money will be redirected to health care clinics that serve women.
Furthermore, 72 percent of voters agree that “taxpayer dollars would be better spent directed t
o the more than 13,000 health centers and hospitals providing comprehensive women’s health care.”
We can make sure women have access to health care
without using taxpayer dollars to fund an organization responsible for around one out of every three abortions in the United States. "
What Miss Tenn. Got Wrong About Planned Parenthood, Women’s Health
