A RESTRICTIVE LAW signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels has been declared illegal. It discriminated against poor women, because they don’t vote and it’s the easiest demographic to push around.
A controversial Indiana law that would keep low-income women from using federal Medicaid benefits to receive any kind of reproductive medical care from Planned Parenthood is unacceptable because it denies women the freedom to choose their health care providers, according to a federal hearing officer.
[..] The restrictive state law, signed in May 2011 by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels, was designed to keep clinics run by Planned Parenthood from performing abortions, because any that did so would lose virtually all Medicaid-funded business.
In addition to the Medicare restrictions, the bill also bans abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, with exceptions for the life or health of the mother.
“CMS has informed Indiana that their proposed Amendment is not in compliance with federal law. We are working with Indiana and fully expect that the State will follow the federal law that sets the conditions for its receipt of over $4 billion in Federal Medicaid funds,” CMS said in a statement.
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Mitch Daniels, the republican presidential candidate that ” got away. “
“Away” from where? The funny farm??? Oh, wait, I believe all of those have been closed down. That would explain the large number of mentally challenged individuals who occupy both Houses of Congress these days….
If Mr. Daniels is an idiot, what does that make the Democrats that voted to pass the bill?
Cowards who the electorate should toss out.
We seem to have arrived at a point in history when republican/teabagger governors feel free to disregard any law or court ruling that doesn’t meet their personal feelings or inclinations.