Author Topic: Judge Blocks Florida Law Defunding Planned Parenthood Abortion Business (Read 550 times)

don-o · « **on:** August 19, 2016, 02:33:26 pm »

Judge Blocks Florida Law Defunding Planned Parenthood Abortion Business

http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/19/judge-blocks-florida-law-defunding-planned-parenthood-abortion-business/

Florida is not allowed to defund the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, who made it clear that he was opposed to the state legislation during hearings earlier this summer, permanently blocked the legislation from going into effect, ABC News reports.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the law after Gov. Rick Scott signed it in March. The law would have stripped approximately half a million dollars in taxpayer funding from groups that perform abortions. It also required more rigorous state inspections of abortion facilities.

The Florida legislation would have redirected the tax dollars to other non-abortion community health centers, ensuring that women will have access to basic health services. Community health centers, which offer comprehensive health care to women and families, outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities by 20 to one.

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don-o · « **Reply #1 on:** August 19, 2016, 02:41:55 pm »

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On August 21, 2014, Hinkle issued a ruling in Brenner v. Scott that denied the state defendants' motion to dismiss and granted the same-sex couple plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction. In ordering the injunction, Judge Hinkle found that Florida's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriage were federally unconstitutional.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lewis_Hinkle

BJC appointee. But Hillary won't be THAT bad.