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Tenn. Planned Parenthood loses gov’t funding
About $1.1 million set aside for family planning in the state will now be distributed mostly to local health organizations and not the taxpayer-supported abortion provider. Susan Allen of Tennessee Right to Life was there for the vote. “In the House, the vote was 69-to-22,” she notes, “and in the Senate, 25-to-7.”
Allen is thankful that Planned Parenthood will no longer receive the annual automatic nod from the state. “For approximately 40 years, Planned Parenthood was given preferential treatment in the Tennessee state law for getting family planning funds that are under Title X from the federal government,” she explains.
Earlier this year, Lila Rose of Live Action conducted an undercover video probe at Memphis Planned Parenthood, during which she posed as a 14-year-old girl impregnated by an older man. A staff member advised her how to obtain the abortion without identifying the molester. Allen believes Rose’s revelation had an effect on lawmakers.
