Anti-abortion groups, lawmakers push feds for more permanent ‘defunding’ of Planned Parenthood • Maine Morning Star

Anti-abortion groups, lawmakers push feds for more permanent ‘defunding’ of Planned Parenthood • Maine Morning Star

The Planned Parenthood clinic in New Orleans was open for over 40 years but stopped seeing patients at the end of September after federal Medicaid funding cuts. Abortion opponents are looking for more ways to pull funds from the organization, despite legal abortion care making up a small portion of the services affiliated health centers provide. (Photo by Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator) Anti-abortion organizations and Republican elected offic…