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Texas to Halt Government Funding for Planned Parenthood

Lisa Bourne : Dec 22, 2016  LifeSiteNews.com

"Your misconduct is directly related to whether you are qualified to provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner. Your actions violate generally accepted medical standards, as reflected in state and federal law, and are Medicaid program violations that justify termination." -Stuart Bowen, Inspector General for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

(Austin, Texas)—[LifeSiteNews] Planned Parenthood has officially been cut off from government funding through Texas' Medicaid program. (Photo: Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock/via LifeSiteNews.com)

Misconduct and violations of acceptable medical standards were among the causes cited in the final legal notice delivered to Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) this week informing the abortion giant of the state's intent to cease its Medicaid funding.

Stuart Bowen, inspector general for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), said in the letter that the undercover videos from the Center of Medical Progress (CMP) showed "that Planned Parenthood violated state and federal law."

Bowen wrote that the videos revealed Planned Parenthood's history of "deviating from accepted standards" to procure tissue samples for researchers and a "willingness to charge more than the costs incurred for procuring fetal tissue," along with other violations.

"Your misconduct is directly related to whether you are qualified to provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and ethical manner," Bowen stated. "Your actions violate generally accepted medical standards, as reflected in state and federal law, and are Medicaid program violations that justify termination."

State health officials sent the notice Tuesday, the Texas Tribune reported, noting that effective in 30 days the abortion chain will no longer collect the $3.1 million in Medicaid funding it was receiving.

That January 19, 2017, date could be delayed should Planned Parenthood appeal the decision within 15 days and ask for an administrative hearing. Officials for the abortion business have said, however, that they plan (to) go to court instead.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission first sent Planned Parenthood notice of intent to remove its Medicaid funding in October 2015, a few months after the release of a series of undercover videos showing leaders of the abortion behemoth bartering in the sale of body parts from children aborted at its facilities...

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