Indiana

Indiana And Planned Parenthood Take Defunding Battle To Federal Court

Jillian Rayfield | June 6, 2011, 12:24PM

A District Court judge in Indiana is now considering whether to grant a preliminary injunction against a new law that strips Indiana Planned Parenthood of all of its federal funding.

Planned Parenthood has requested a preliminary injunction against the law, arguing that without it the state will stop receiving about $1.4 million in Medicaid funding on June 20, and would cut health care services for more than 9,000 people.

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Topics: Abortion, Indiana, Mitch Daniels, Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

Indiana Moving Ahead With Planned Parenthood Defund Despite Order From Feds

Jillian Rayfield | June 2, 2011, 4:02PM

Officials in Indiana say they will continue to implement a law that cuts all federal funding for Planned Parenthood in the state, despite a warning from the Department of Health and Human Services that the law violates the rules of Medicaid.

Marcus J. Barlow, spokesman for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, said they are consulting with the state Attorney General on how to proceed. "The way the law was written, it went into effect the moment the governor signed it," Barlow told the National Journal. "We were just advised by our lawyers that we should continue to enforce Indiana law."

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Topics: Abortion, Mitch Daniels, Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

Judge Refuses To Block Bill Defunding Indiana Planned Parenthood

Melissa Jeltsen | May 11, 2011, 3:35PM

Indiana women on Medicaid who rely on Planned Parenthood for medical care might want to start looking elsewhere.

On Tuesday, a federal judge denied Planned Parenthood of Indiana's request for a temporary restraining order that would have stopped HEA 1210 -- a controversial measure that cuts off all federal funding to the state's largest reproductive health care organization -- from going into effect.

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Topics: Indiana, Mitch Daniels, Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood

Indiana Planned Parenthood Seeking Injunction To Save Federal Funding

Melissa Jeltsen | May 10, 2011, 5:21PM

Planned Parenthood of Indiana says it will file a temporary restraining order and injunction to keep HEA 1210 -- the controversial measure that would cut off all federal funding to the organization in the state -- from going into effect, calling the bill unconstitutional and in violation of federal law.

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Topics: Indiana, Mitch Daniels, Planned Parenthood

Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels' Social 'Truce' Faces Test Over Planned Parenthood Vote

Melissa Jeltsen | April 28, 2011, 10:21AM

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' (R) "truce" on social issues is now facing its first real test.

Indiana is set to become the first state to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood, unless Daniels vetoes the bill sent to him Thursday by the Indiana State Legislature.

The bill would bar the state from entering a contract with any entity that performs abortions (excluding hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers). Planned Parenthood, which operates 28 centers in the state, would lose all public dollars.

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Topics: Abortion, GOP, Mitch Daniels, Planned Parenthood

Tim Durham

Latest High-Flying Accused Ponzi Schemer Has Ties To Indiana Guv

Zachary Roth | November 30, 2009, 2:06PM

Meet the latest high-living accused Ponzi schemer with close ties to Republican politicians. That would be Tim Durham, the flamboyant Indianapolis-based owner of Fair Finance Co., and ally of Governor Mitch Daniels...

In court papers filed last week by the Feds and examined by TPMmuckraker, Durham was accused of using money from new purchasers of his company's investment certificates to pay off earlier investors, thereby thereby "lulling the earlier victims into believing that their money was being [handled] responsibily." The filing followed an FBI raid last Wednesday on Durham's Indianapolis office.

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Topics: FBI, Mitch Daniels, Sex, Tim Durham