South Carolina governor ends funding of abortion clinics

Last updated on: August 27, 2017 at 11:06 am by CNA Daily News

South Carolina governor ends funding of abortion clinics 2017-08-27T11:06:00+00:00 CNA Daily News

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Charleston, S.C., Aug 27, 2017 / 05:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In an executive order issued Aug. 25, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster directed state agencies to stop funding abortion clinics including Planned Parenthood.

“There are a variety of agencies, clinics, and medical entities in South Carolina that receive taxpayer funding to offer important women's health and family planning services without performing abortions,” Gov. McMaster said.

“Taxpayer dollars must not directly or indirectly subsidize abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.”

Citing South Carolina’s “strong culture and longstanding tradition of protecting and defending the life and liberty of the unborn,” the executive order instructs state agencies to stop all forms of funding to any practice affiliated with an abortion clinic.

It also directs the state Health and Human Services Department to request waivers allowing the agency to stop funding abortion clinics through South Carolina’s Medicaid provider network.

McMaster also instructed the state agencies to coordinate a public list of qualified non-abortion women's health and family planning providers within 25 miles of any abortion clinic that is excluded from the state's Medicaid network.

The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List praised the decision.

“We thank Governor McMaster for acting to ensure taxpayers fund comprehensive primary and preventative care for women and families, not abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood,” said SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser.

“Governor McMaster’s additional request that South Carolina be allowed to cut off Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding through Medicaid and instead fund community health centers should be granted. The Trump Administration should immediately offer the same Medicaid flexibility to all states,” she continued.

Federally supported comprehensive health care entities outnumber Planned Parenthoods by more than 20 to one nationwide, and by 134 to one in South Carolina, according to the Susan B. Anthony List.

More than a dozen states have moved to defund Planned Parenthood, which has become the center of controversy in recent years, with the release of undercover footage appearing to show clinic employees discussing how to skirt the law to engage in illegal practices, including partial-birth abortions, selling the body parts of aborted babies, and possibly the infanticide of babies born alive after botched abortions.

In April, President Donald Trump signed legislation allowing each state to decide individually whether it would give Title X family planning funds to organizations that perform abortions. A previous Obama-era regulation had banned the withholding of Title X funds based on an organization’s participation in abortion.

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