Posted on 06/26/2025 10:38:30 PM PDT by Morgana
On Thursday, the Supreme Court greenlit South Carolina’s efforts to remove abortion providers, such as Planned Parenthood, from the state’s Medicaid reimbursement program. Naturally, MSNBC’s Ana Cabrera Reports freaked out over the decision, with Law Prof. Leah Litman warning the move could lead to a rise in cancer.
Cabrera put the ball on the tee when she asked, “So, Leah, what do you see as the ramifications of this decision?”
Litman began by painting a gloomy scene, “I think the practical implications of this decision are going to be momentous. I mean, Medicaid serves as an important, you know, source of health insurance for so much of the American population. And what this decision does is it eliminates patient and provider’s ability to challenge states' decision to defund Planned Parenthood by refusing to reimburse Medicaid patients for any care that they obtain at a Planned Parenthood. So, who is this decision primarily going to affect? It is primarily going to affect the individuals living in rural areas that suffer from a shortage of primary care physicians.”
She added, “You know, statistics indicate 65 percent of rural areas have a shortage of primary care physicians and 76 percent of Planned Parenthood health centers are located in rural or medically underserved areas. So, by excluding Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program, what states are doing is they are forcing individuals to find care elsewhere. That might be super long distances and very difficult to obtain.”
Currently, Planned Parenthood has two South Carolina locations, and they are in the very much non-rural cities of Columbia and Charleston.
Nevertheless, Litman continued to freak out, “And the effects of bouncing Planned Parenthood, we know, result in significant deprivations of care. After Kansas blocked its ability to obtain Medicaid reimbursement and care in Planned Parenthood, the state saw more than a 30 percent decline in the number of annual pelvic exams or cancer screenings. That's the sort of care that Planned Parenthood health centers provide in medically underserved areas that the states are now refusing to reimburse people for.”
That’s not exactly true. Here is how the AP put it in 2016, “The tiered system, which took effect in 2014 after an appeals court upheld its legality, made it harder for families to access medical services, particularly in the rural western part of the state, where Planned Parenthood closed a clinic in Hays and an unaffiliated family planning clinic shut down in Dodge City. The number of Kansans who received Title X services fell from 38,461 in 2011 to 24,047 in 2015 — a decrease of more than 37 percent, according to HHS.”
In other words, all of Title X services declined, not just pelvic exams or cancer screenings. That means one person getting a cancer screening counts the same as one person picking up some condoms. More importantly, declining numbers from 2011 to 2015 were not just a Kansas thing. For example, dark blue Hawaii’s fell by 29 percent, while then-Vice President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware saw a 27 percent decline.
If MSNBC is going to try to fearmonger, they should at least try to get facts on their side.
Here is a transcript for the June 26 show:
MSNBC Ana Cabrera Reports
6/26/2025
10:19 AM ET
ANA CABRERA: So, Leah, what do you see as the ramifications of this decision?
LEAH LITMAN: I think the practical implications of this decision are going to be momentous. I mean, Medicaid serves as an important, you know, source of health insurance for so much of the American population. And what this decision does is it eliminates patient and provider’s ability to challenge states' decision to defund Planned Parenthood by refusing to reimburse Medicaid patients for any care that they obtain at a Planned Parenthood. So, who is this decision primarily going to affect? It is primarily going to affect the individuals living in rural areas that suffer from a shortage of primary care physicians.
You know, statistics indicate 65 percent of rural areas have a shortage of primary care physicians and 76 percent of Planned Parenthood health centers are located in rural or medically underserved areas. So, by excluding Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program, what states are doing is they are forcing individuals to find care elsewhere. That might be super long distances and very difficult to obtain.
And the effects of bouncing Planned Parenthood, we know, result in significant deprivations of care. After Kansas blocked its ability to obtain Medicaid reimbursement and care in Planned Parenthood, the state saw more than a 30 percent decline in the number of annual pelvic exams or cancer screenings. That's the sort of care that Planned Parenthood health centers provide in medically underserved areas that the states are now refusing to reimburse people for.
What, no accusation that it’ll end up killing poor innocent babies?
...... oh yeah...., right...
Oh that’s just silly. On the other hand it will cause Aliens’ Hand Syndrome
Every county has a program for low income residents to get colon cancer screening,
pap smears, and mammograms, and a myriad of other services. Factor in medicaid
and medicare and bases are covered.
It’s going to infect your mind, curve your spine, and keep your country from winning the war.
Where do then find these effing broads?
Planned P is a cancer.
Hot dog fingers and anal fissures for sure.
Seriously, though. I thought the studies showed that abortions led to an increase in breast cancer?
MSNBC is a cancer.
Seeing the writing on the wall that the abortion business was declining, PP branched into the mutilating kids. Transing kids is just post birth abortion.
Maybe Dems...
“You will know them by their fruits.” “but the bad tree bears evil fruits... nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.” Matthew 7: 16-20
PMSNBC cancer “experts” again. Are these the same people who diagnosed all illegal alien “accompanied” female toddlers had cancer too?
When they say increased cancer, they mean children. The only thing planned parenthood provides is death.
There are cancers caused by STDs.
Seems to me PP aids and abets activity that spreads cancer.
The left conveniently ignore those reports
... increase life ...
EVERYTHING increases cancer.
Next point?
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