BMJ  2007;335:903 (3 November), doi:10.1136/bmj.39384.487326.4E

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US Congress asked to suspend funding for Planned Parenthood

Janice Hopkins Tanne

New York

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Anti-abortion activists have asked the US Congress to suspend the US$300 million federal funding granted to Planned Parenthood until a case against the organisation in Kansas is settled.

Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organisation, is the largest provider of family planning and reproductive health services, including abortions, in the United States.

But Phill Kline, an anti-abortion Republican, has filed 107 charges against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, which provides services to Kansas and parts of the neighbouring state of Missouri.

Mr Kline, who was voted out of office as Kansas state attorney general, is now District Attorney for Johnson County, Kansas.

He claims that the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City, performed late term abortions without determining whether the fetus could survive outside the womb.

He also charges the clinic with supplying false information, unlawful failure to maintain records, and unlawful failure to determine viability . . . [Full text of this article]


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