This is the second time in two months that Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has notified Planned Parenthood it will lose funding for about 5,200 patients in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. It backed off an attempt to kick Planned Parenthood out of the program without cause after the administration faced aggressive questioning in a federal court hearing over Planned Parenthood's effort to seek an injunction to block the defunding.
Planned Parenthood does not perform abortions in Louisiana, so the Medicaid funding goes to medical care such as cancer and sexually transmitted infection screenings. Jindal's been trying to defund Planned Parenthood since an anti-abortion group released a series of videos that has triggered a national conversation about defunding the group.
