Cockrum told IndyStar in that her job became more political after she started. Cockrum pushed a host of initiatives, including making emergency contraception available over the counter, allowing Planned Parenthood patients to use Medicaid for health care services and expanding beyond abstinence-only education. Protesters often crowded her lawn, once saying, "You're a sicko, Betty! You're killing babies, Betty Cockroach. Deborah Simon, who served as president of the board of Planned Parenthood of Indiana, said Cockrum rarely had her family visit her home because of the protesters.
Simpson said she feared for Cockrum's safety at times. But she added that her friend was strong and undeterred. When you're talking about hot issues that are politicized in the way that reproductive health has been politicized over the years, it is so easy to see it in black and white.
And be hateful or spiteful toward people who don't think the same way you do. And Betty, although she felt passionate and strongly about these issues, she never let that interfere with her doing her job, doing what she thought was the right thing to do.
Having grown up poor, Cockrum saw Planned Parenthood as a way to get health care to people who needed it, Reed said. The settlement strikes down key provisions of a law that, at the time, made Indiana the first state in the nation to bar Planned Parenthood from receiving federal money because it offers abortions.
Planned Parenthood annually provides care to more than 80, men and women in Indiana and Kentucky, according to the statement, including about 9, enrolled in Indiana's Medicaid program. Under the contested law, those Medicaid patients would have been barred from obtaining preventive and other health care services at Planned Parenthood centers, and health care providers who perform abortions would have been penalized, despite not using federal money for those procedures.
A message left with Indiana Right-to-Life's state leader seeking comment on the ruling was not immediately returned. But when the bill was passed in the spring, the anti-abortion group said the new law put reasonable restrictions in place. In a written statement released Tuesday, Zoeller reserved comment until he had a chance to scrutinize Magnus-Stinson's ruling.
Falk, while addressing Zoeller's characterization of Tuesday's ruling as "narrow," noted that the law itself affects only one clinic in Indiana. He said the abortion medication had been prescribed at the clinic fewer than 60 times last year. Pence has every confidence this law is constitutional," spokeswoman Kara Brooks said in a statement.
They look to the courts and activist judges to rule in their favor," Fichter said in a statement. Mike Pence isn't a woman and he isn't a doctor," she said in a statement. The lawsuit also was brought by Dr. Marshall Levine, a doctor contracted by Planned Parenthood to perform abortions, and Shauna Sidhom, a nurse practitioner who works for Planned Parenthood. Under the new law, medical professionals such as Levine and Sidhom could be prosecuted, face civil lawsuits or lose their licenses for performing abortions sought because of a prenatal diagnosis of disability.
Planned Parenthood doesn't ask patients why they're seeking abortions, the lawsuit said, but the new law requires health care providers to report to the state whether fetuses have been diagnosed with disabilities. Because of that, Planned Parenthood argues that doctors and nurses will learn about a diagnosis before an abortion, putting them at risk of being punished.
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