Kansas to pay PP, will continue appeal of bad ruling

UPDATE, Sept.7:  payment of $58,000 has been made to Planned Parenthood. Yesterday, Judge Thomas Marten ordered an immediate state payment of approximately $80,000 to Planned Parenthood of Kansas Mid-Missouri for Title X family planning services. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office issued this statement this morning to Kansans for Life: “The state will comply with the [...]

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Kansas forced to prop up failing Planned Parenthood

UPDATE, Aug.30, 5:20pm: Without answering the contractual issues, Judge Marten late today ordered an immediate quarterly payment from the state to Planned Parenthood, without any bond. “Planned Parenthood is threatening to close its Hays clinic this Friday if its federal family planning funds aren’t restored by Sept. 16,” writes The Kansas City Star. That money [...]

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KS PP in the red, demands state quarterly pre-payment

Planned Parenthood of Kansas Mid-Missouri is without a Title X contract for services in Kansas this year because it does not provide primary and preventative care; yet it wants the state to rescue its failing Kansas clinics to the tune of an immediate $80 thousand dollars– all before any services are rendered. In today’s federal [...]

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Judge Marten keeps injunction, AG says appeal is next step

Planned Parenthood of Kansas Mid-Missouri (PPKMM) insists that they will be irreparably harmed without Kansas’ Title X contracts and Federal Judge Thomas Marten is backing them up. The state of Kansas, in an Aug. 9 appeal brief, labels that claim of harm as “rank speculation” not deserving emergency relief from the court. The state’s appeal [...]

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Pro-abortion extremism behind ACLU insurance lawsuit

Why has the ACLU sued Kansas’ new health insurance law that won’t cover abortions except those truly needed to prevent the mother’s death? It’s not because the law is unconstitutional or even novel– since similar laws have been operating in other states since 1979. But abortion zealots cannot bear that abortion is viewed as so [...]

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ACLU joins dogpile with lawsuit vs Kansas insurance law

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined the dogpile of federal lawsuits against new Kansas pro-life laws today. They filed suit to overturn and enjoin insurance mandate HB 2075, which– except in rare situations needed to prevent the mother’s death– would not pay for abortion without an individually-purchased insurance “rider.” My right to travel freely [...]

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Kansas appeals judge-ordered Planned Parenthood funding

Wichita federal Judge Thomas Marten was verbally raked over the coals for his “zeal to find a bad legislative motive,” causing him to get so many points of law just plain wrong when ruling in favor of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri last Monday. In the Kansas Attorney General’s appellate brief filed Tuesday in [...]

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Media campaign: Judge Marten is free speech defender

Judges’ rulings do not blossom after carefully evaluating competing legal briefs; most judges know at the outset where they want to end up and then carefully select the legal stepping stones to get there. This happened in the Aug 1st ruling in which Kansas district Judge Thomas Marten dismissed the state’s constitutional budget authority and [...]

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KS AG to appeal injunction “entitling PP” to tax money

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has announced his office will appeal today’s ruling by U.S. Judge J.Thomas Marten, ordering a temporary injunction that helps Planned Parenthood regain access to Title X tax funding. Dr. Robert Moser, who was also sued in his capacity as Secretary for Kansas Department of Health and Environment, commented: “Title X was [...]

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