Alabama Ordered by Judge to Restore Planned Parenthood Funds
- Governor ended contract after watching anti-abortion video
- Group got Medicaid reimbursement of $5,600 for last two years
Protesters outside the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery on April 2, 2013.
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Alabama must restore Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood clinics because Republican Governor Robert Bentley illegally terminated the contract after watching an undercover video by anti-abortion activists on fetal tissue procurement that had nothing to do with clinics in that state, a federal judge ruled.
Alabama can’t cut off Medicaid funds without finding the health-care provider did something wrong, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of Montgomery ruled Wednesday. He ordered the funding reinstated immediately for all Medicaid patients seeking services from Planned Parenthood Southeast’s two Alabama clinics.