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Concerns About Planned Parenthood Funding Under Medicaid Expansion

Jun 13, 2013JerryAbortionAbortion, News

Family Council Concerned About Planned Parenthood Funding Under Medicaid Expansion

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, June 13, 2013

On Thursday, Family Council President Jerry Cox expressed concerns over the possibility tax dollars might go to Planned Parenthood under Arkansas’ new expansion of Medicaid.

According to recent news reports, at least twenty-eight organizations—including Planned Parenthood—have applied for public dollars to hire a total of more than 600 new employees. These new employees will help Arkansans enroll in programs under the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama. So far, twenty-seven nonprofits and other entities have been approved by the state to hire new employees, but Jerry Cox says he hopes Arkansas’ legislators will not make any abortion provider the twenty-eighth.

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Tom Cotton Questions IRS Audit of Adoptive Parents

Jun 13, 2013JerryAdoptionAdoption

U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton of Arkansas’ Fourth Congressional District wants to know why the IRS is auditing adoptive parents. On June 12^th Rep. Cotton addressed the House of Representatives on the issue.

“Today, I want to highlight another potential IRS abuse, namely unfair audits of adoptive parents who filed for the Adoption Tax Credit. We’ve all heard about the abuse of conservative, Christian, and other groups. But fewer people know the alarming story of families who use the Adoption Tax Credit to offset some of the high costs of adoption.

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The Right to Choose?

Jun 13, 2013JerryAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

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The following blog post is by Family Council staff member Christa Adams.

Abortion proponents tout that a woman should have the “right to choose” what happens in her body and should have access to safe abortions. However, time and time again cases come to light where a woman may have had access to an abortion, but it was unsafe or she was coerced into abortion by lack of knowledge, by various other parties, or in some cases the abortionists themselves. Itai Gravely is just one of these women.

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