Concerns About Planned Parenthood Funding Under Medicaid Expansion

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Family Council Concerned About Planned Parenthood Funding Under Medicaid Expansion

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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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Family Council Says SJR16 Will Arbitrarily Restrict Petition Process

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, April 19, 2013

On Friday, Family Council President Jerry Cox released a statement regarding the Arkansas House of Representatives’ referral of Senate Joint Resolution 16.

“SJR16 is a serious issue,” Cox said. “It’s going to have a chilling effect on grassroots petition efforts.”

Cox said the resolution was presented as an anti-fraud measure, but has little to do with preventing fraud. “Petition fraud is already a crime. SJR16 doesn’t make fraud any more criminal. It doesn’t provide more oversight to prevent fraud. All it does it make it harder for citizens to place a measure on the ballot via the petition process. That’s it.

“We don’t try to prevent slander or libel by outlawing free speech. We shouldn’t try to prevent petition fraud by arbitrarily restricting the petition process.”

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