budget veto by republican governor chris saununu. planned parenthood has seen a 25% hit to its operating budget. one casualty of that funding crunch providers say has been std testing. efforts to help granite staters diagnose these conditions and treat them are facing significant reductions. yeah, nothing like cutting all the funding for std testing in the state that is having a huge outbreak of multiple stds. i wonder what the outcome of that will be. the trump administration new funding restriction referenced here by the paper in concord, it s sort of kicking new hampshire where it hurts at exactly the wrong time. this is a new federal policy from the trump administration that is set to go into effect tonight. it s effectively a gag order for clinics that do std screening and cancer screening and contraception services. there is a longstanding federal program that spends about $260
to the clinics are not going for abortions, they re going largely for birth control and std testing and other things. you go to one of the clinics, you can get a prescription for the pill, you can also get longer term and effective birth control like iuds. 3.4% are seeking abortion services. in a world with universal health care of some fashion, this is less of an issue. in this world in which we live, you say this may be effecting more than 1.5 million out of 4 million women, what happens, do the women find some other place if they can t afford to pay for the service or stop seeking the service? well, it is important to remember obviously with the affordable care act we saw expansion of medicaid in many states, but states of texas, florida, many others have not expanded medicaid, leaving large swathes of particularly women of child bearing age uninsured.
the american college of physicians and obstetrics and gynecology support having a pelvic exam is uncomfortable for patients, but justified if the patient has a medical need. if they are having a pap test or std testing or just before a surgical abortion so i can understand her pelvic anatomy before i perform her abortion. it s health care. a patient about to have a colonoscopy has a rectal exam just before, but not three days in advance. you made a remarkable decision that you are going to stop going along with what the state government of missouri has been making you do for the past three weeks. if you can stay with us for another few minutes, i would love to talk to you in detail about how you arrived in that decision and what will happen as a consequence. i can. david eisenberg who is the medical director at planned parenthood in st. louis,
by the governor or department of health in missouri. when the state decided to newly interpret regulations and state laws to require you to do this new exam that you didn t have to do before, the one that you ve just described in vivid terms, did they warn you they were making this change in interpretation? did they tell you why they were doing it? did they give you any indication what they think this is for? i honestly don t have a good explanation for why. there s no medical or legal justification. the american college of obstetrics and gynecology, which i m a member of, the american college of physicians, all support the idea that having a pelvic exam is an invasive and uncomfortable experience for patients, but it s justified when there s a medical need for it. if a patient s having a pap test to screen for cervical cancer. std testing. just before a surgical abortion procedure. so i can understand her pelvic anatomy before i perform her abortion. abortion care is health care.
tucker: we pay, taxpayers at gunpoint half a billion to planned parenthood which commits more abortions than any thing in the country. you just talked about on point. tucker: it is at gunpoint. if you don t pay her taxes, they come and arrest you. the cops arrest you. if you don t pay her taxes voluntarily, you do it because the government backs it up with the threat of force. if you give me a moment to speak. what everybody should understand also is planned parenthood works just like any other medical provider. they get reimbursed for the procedures they perform that are approved by the government. so they get a reimbursement for an std testing. they get reimbursed for all those other things, but not for abortion. but i want to take a moment to talk about what is happening. we ve got 4 minutes. tucker: you are for abortion.