Republican presidential candidate and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal announced Monday that he was ending his state’s Medicaid contract with Louisiana’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates.
“Today, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals informed Planned Parenthood it is exercising its right to terminate Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid provider agreement,” the governor’s office’s press release reads. “In recent weeks, multiple videos have surfaced showing Planned Parenthood Federation of America senior personnel and other employees describing how they actively engage in illegal partial birth abortion procedures and conduct these abortions in a manner that leaves body parts intact so that they can later be sold on the open market.”
Jindal himself offers a quote in the same press release: “In recent weeks, it has been shocking to see reports of the alleged activities taking place at Planned Parenthood facilities across the country. Planned Parenthood does not represent the values of the people of Louisiana and shows a fundamental disrespect for human life. It has become clear that this is not an organization that is worthy of receiving public assistance from the state.”
The decision comes a month after Jindal ordered an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s fetal donation practices following a series of controversial undercover videos.
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