INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Planned Parenthood clinics in Indiana are seeing Medicaid patients again after a federal judge ruled the state can’t cut off the organization’s public funding for general health services just because it also provides abortions.
Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Kate Shepherd said Saturday she doesn’t know how many Medicaid patients had visited the group’s 28 clinics since Friday’s federal court ruling, but the clinics usually average about 80 a day.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana had been without Medicaid funding since the law took effect May 10. Planned Parenthood stopped seeing Medicaid patients Tuesday after private donations that had paid for their care ran out.
Shepherd says Planned Parenthood is trying to get the word out to Medicaid patients that they can start coming back.
