Planned Parenthood has worked with the state to provide HIV testing since 2008. This move puts people's lives at risk.
When the AP asked the department of health why it had tried to cut Planned Parenthood out of the program in November, a spokesperson instead provided a January 17 letter explaining that “prior administrations” had accepted the federal money, but the state determined “it is in the best interest of Tennesseans for the State to assume direct financial and managerial responsibility for these services.
Planned Parenthood has worked with the state to provide HIV testing since 2008 under Gov. Phil Bredesen . When Gov. Bill Haslam was elected in 2012, his administration tried to boot the organization from the program and got sued and lost.
permanent injunction preventing the state from dissolving any partnership with the organization because of their abortion care advocacy. That injunction is still in place.Why is this happening now? Possibly because the state’s new health commissioner started his job last week. Lee appointed to the role
, a former Kentucky lawmaker who is anti-abortion. Alvarado started last Monday, two days before the change was announced.
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