Post by Logan on Apr 12, 2016 5:10:42 GMT -6
DES MOINES — The potential battle has loomed since last summer, when many conservatives were enraged by secretly recorded videos showing an employee of a women’s health care provider discussing the transfer of aborted fetal tissue for research.
A legal review of the secretly filmed videos showed Planned Parenthood broke no laws. A Texas grand jury filed charges against two individuals who helped produce the videos.
But if a legislative clash over public funding for women’s health care providers that perform abortions is to take place in Iowa, it will happen soon.
State lawmakers are beginning to craft the state budget. One negotiation that could prove highly contentious is whether some of the $1.8 billion dedicated to the state Health and Human Services Department’s budget should go toward women’s health care providers that provide abortions.
Read more: www.thegazette.com/subject/life/health/abortion-funding-could-stall-iowa-budget-negotiations-20160411
A legal review of the secretly filmed videos showed Planned Parenthood broke no laws. A Texas grand jury filed charges against two individuals who helped produce the videos.
But if a legislative clash over public funding for women’s health care providers that perform abortions is to take place in Iowa, it will happen soon.
State lawmakers are beginning to craft the state budget. One negotiation that could prove highly contentious is whether some of the $1.8 billion dedicated to the state Health and Human Services Department’s budget should go toward women’s health care providers that provide abortions.
Read more: www.thegazette.com/subject/life/health/abortion-funding-could-stall-iowa-budget-negotiations-20160411