Step one in a long legal battle if in which Indiana succeeds would become Planned Parenthood’s Waterloo.
Final arguments have been filed in Planned Parenthoods suit to try and overturn Indiana’s ban on abortion providers as qualified Medicaid providers.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and the state have filed final arguments for a federal judge hearing the organization’s request for an injunction blocking a tough new abortion law that takes away about $1.4 million of its public funding.
Planned Parenthood attorney Ken Falk of the American Civil Liberties Union argues in a brief filed Tuesday that Judge Tanya Walton Pratt should accept the authority of Medicaid Administrator Donald Berwick in a June 1 letter to his Indiana counterpart saying federal law states beneficiaries can obtain general health services from any qualified provider.
Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher, in his final brief Monday, said the letter was the first step in a lengthy process over whether Indiana can disqualify Planned Parenthood.
Pratt plans to rule by July 1.
Lots of IFS here, but…
If Indiana sticks to its guns and
If Indiana forces the Obama administration to cut off Medicaid funds…
If Indiana prevails in the courts then
This may very well be the biggest pro-life victory since Roe v. Wade for many States would follow Indiana’s lead and Planned Parenthood would be left reeling.
Keep Praying. This will be a long one.
June 15, 2011 at 2:39 am
Praying…Praying…Praying…
It has to ultimately get back to the states anyway. What better place to start than to get rid of a corrupt organization in the process??
June 15, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Patty, Thank you and God bless you (and so many others) for your prayers. Please also pray for Judge Pratt. . .she is Catholic and attends St. Joan of Arc Parish here in Indianapolis. How the Catholic Church goes, so goes the state and world. This is ultimately about Catholics and Christians living out their Faith and remaining faithful in a corrupt world. God bless you Patrick for keeping this issue front and center!
June 15, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Planned Parenthood is not a non-profit corporation but a money making business that has milked the taxpayers for too many years through bullying, intimidation and lies. Never mind that abortion is the worship of the devil, illegal for the government to fund or support. Planned Parenthood has never policed its own subsidiaries and skipped over healthcare laws that a florist or restaurant would obey. The court and Judge Pratt may save the state great amounts of money by felling goliath in one fell swoop rather than sending health officials into every dirty, filty, unsterilized, stinking abortuary. Someone Please send Judge Pratt the movie: BLOOD MONEY. A normal person would not let an abortionist care for their dog, but 12, 13, 14, 15, year old infant children are assaulted and battered by unsterilized equipment. Every person is considered a legal minor child called an INFANT in a court of law until the age of twenty-one years of age. The court must protect the civil rights of INFANT children. That Planned Parenthood commits abortion upon these legally minor children indicts them as unfit for any medicaid or tax reimbursement. St Joan of Arc pray for us. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary pray for us. Let every aborted soul visit Obama this night.
Mary De Voe