PP in Memphis finally defunded....

Official Announcement from TN RTL...Good work. Planned Parenthood of Memphis Defunded

The Commercial Appeal reported Wednesday morning that the Shelby County Public Health Department will no longer be contracting with Planned Parenthood's Memphis affiliate, a decision which effectively ends a decades long practice in which the Tennessee Department of Health automatically awarded federal Title X family planning funds to Planned Parenthood's abortion facilities.  Tennessee Right to Life has led the public fight since 2006 to defund the nation's foremost abortion provider by directing the funds to ethical health care providers instead. Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell stated that the family planning contract will awarded to Christ Community Health Services, a non-profit health service provider which does not perform or refer for abortion.   Luttrell said that a six-person team of local health care professionals and members of his administration ranked three proposals and selected Christ Community.  The contract must now be approved by the Shelby County Commission, likely within the next several weeks.

Update: Names are leaking out on the Mystery Amendment...now how can we fix this

Update again...June 1st...Well the names are coming out...now what are we to do to fix this???

Update: May 28th...No it didn't...yes it did.... Campfield sums it  up...we are all virgins but somehow we got pregnant! 


Update: It came from the Senate side.
 Well here it is ..a real whodunnit in TN. If you follow Senator Stacey Campfield's newsy blog you could follow the story as it unfolds. 


The idea that a legislative attorney "states"  that  on the direction of an "unnamed legislator" inserted a stealth amendment into the budget in the hurried and waning hours of the session to  undo a sponsored amendment in  the final defunding of Planned Parenthood in TN suspends belief. 


Inquiring minds want to know at whose direction the atty inserted  the amendment and as of now the denials are being followed like a check list ticking off possibilities. 


But what can be done at this point is a point of much discussion.