State Legislatures Key To GOP Strategy To Roll Back Abortion Rights
Also in the news, in Texas, anti-abortion groups are pushing for the exclusion of Planned Parenthood from receiving funds through a federal-state free cancer screening program for women; and, in Kansas, a doctor is barred from practice because of abortion referrals.
Politico:
GOP Hopes It’s Cracked The Abortion Code
Republicans are more united than they have been in years on a national strategy to roll back abortion rights, using state legislatures and the new GOP Congress to push for banning the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy — a platform that also has the backing of the party’s presidential candidates. (Everett and French, 1/11)
Dallas Morning News:
Anti-Abortion Groups Target Planned Parenthood’s Role In Cancer Screening Program
This year, Texas anti-abortion groups are pushing lawmakers to exclude Planned Parenthood from the screening program. The combined federal and state-funded program provides free cancer screening and diagnostic tests for women aged 21 to 64 who are uninsured or underinsured and meet low-income requirements. Planned Parenthood saw about 3,300 of the nearly 33,600 women screened through the program in 2014. (Martin, 1/10)
The Associated Press:
Kansas Doctor Still Barred Over Abortion Referrals
A Kansas doctor scrutinized for referring young patients for late-term abortions remains barred from practicing medicine after a state board declared Friday that her inadequate record-keeping justified the revocation of her license. The State Board of Healing Arts stripped Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of her license to provide charity care in 2012, finding she had performed substandard mental health exams in 2003 for 11 patients ages 10 to 18 before referring them to the late Dr. George Tiller's clinic in Wichita. (Hegeman and Hanna, 1/9)
