ROBERTS, KAVANAUGH JOIN LIBERAL SUPREME COURT JUSTICES IN REJECTION OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD DEFUNDING CASES

 MURDER OF UNBORN BABIES IS NOT "HEALTH CARE", EXCEPT IF YOU COME FROM COMMUNIST CHINA'S BRAINWASHING

 

ROBERTS, KAVANAUGH JOIN LIBERAL SUPREME COURT JUSTICES IN REJECTION OF 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD DEFUNDING CASES 

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/12/10/roberts-kavanaugh-join-liberal-supreme-court-justices-in-rejection-of-planned-parenthood-defunding-cases/

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and newly-appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the liberal judges on the nation’s highest court on Monday to turn down appeals from two states challenging lower court rulings striking down efforts to defund Planned Parenthood’s participation in state Medicaid programs.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch were the only three of the nine judges who dissented with the decision not to hear the cases of Gee v. Planned Parenthood (out of Louisiana) and Anderson v. Planned Parenthood (out of Kansas). Four votes are needed to hear a case.
13 states had joined Louisiana and Kansas in amicus briefs, urging the Supreme Court to hear the appeals. Supportive states included Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia, Wyoming, Utah and Wisconsin.
“The circuits are divided over whether Medicaid beneficiaries have a private right of action to challenge a state’s disqualification of a provider under the Medicaid Act. Five circuits have decided that the Medicaid provider-choice provision may be privately enforced under Section 1983, while one has held that it may not,” the Gee brief outlines.

It asked the court clear up the matter since “[u]ntil this split is resolved, patients in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have the right to bring suit in federal court if their preferred provider’s agreement is terminated, while patients in the Eighth Circuit do not.”
Read the briefs here and here.
Chief Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an explanation of his dissent from the majority, noting that the cases before the court wouldn’t have even dealt with the legality of abortion, and that he fears his colleagues rejected the appeals simply because the name Planned Parenthood was involved.
“So what explains the court’s refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood,'” Thomas lamented. “That makes the court’s decision particularly troubling, as the question presented has nothing to do with abortion.”
“It is true that these particular cases arose after several States alleged that Planned Parenthood affiliates had, among other things, engaged in ‘the illegal sale of fetal organs’ and ‘fraudulent billing practices,’ and thus removed Planned Parenthood as a state Medicaid provider,” he continued. “But these cases are not about abortion rights. They are about private rights of action under the Medicaid Act.”
Thomas added, “Resolving the question presented here would not even affect Planned Parenthood’s ability to challenge the States’ decisions; it concerns only the rights of individual Medicaid patients to bring their own suits.”
Read the dissent in full here.
Planned Parenthood applauded the appeal rejection, with new president Leana Wen referring to the abortion and contraceptive giant’s sexually-centered business as one of providing “health care.”
“We are pleased that lower court rulings protecting patients remain in place,” she said. “Every person has a fundamental right to health care, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much they earn. As a doctor, I have seen what’s at stake when people cannot access the care they need, and when politics gets in the way of people making their own health care choices.”
Psalm 119:136 says, “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not Thy law.”

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The Healthcare Fallacy of Planned Parenthood 

and Dr. Leana Wen

 Dr. Leana Wen is Planned Parenthood's new director and the organization has turned up the rhetoric: Planned Parenthood is all about legit, good old fashioned women's healthcare. I know, right? Who knew. I address the fallacy underlying their claims.

SEE ALSO:
https://christiannews.net/2018/12/26/new-planned-parenthood-president-birth-control-abortion-are-standard-medical-care/ 
EXCERPTS:
 "In a recent social media post, new Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen asserted that the organization’s services, which include the provision of contraceptives and abortions, are “standard medical care,” and healthcare is a “basic human right.”
“From here on out, we want to be clear: Planned Parenthood services, from birth control to cancer screenings and abortion, are standard medical care,” she wrote on Dec. 16. “Reproductive healthcare is healthcare. Women’s healthcare is healthcare. And healthcare is a basic human right. #ThisIsHealthcare”
The following day, Wen tweeted, “Denying people healthcare perpetuates inequality. Keeping people unhealthy is a tool of oppression. The American people want more healthcare, not less. We want healthcare protected, expanded, and treated as a fundamental human right. #ThisIsHealthcare”"