Kansas Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood

[marmar]

Shakesville, via AlterNet:



Kansas Moves to Defund Planned Parenthood


What Congress could not do for the nation, the Kansas State legislature hopes to do for the people of Kansas: Save them from the rampaging horror of (mostly) ladies who want to provide legal health services to (mostly) other ladies at an affordable cost.

Abortion politics could take a new twist in Kansas with a budget plan that would make the state the first in the nation to strip funding from Planned Parenthood.

Budgets winding their way through the Legislature would redirect about $300,000 in federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood to state and local health clinics.

The move is similar to one in Washington that almost led to a government shutdown early this month, when Republicans wanted to shut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood in the belief that it provided indirect support for abortions.

Now, the battle is trickling down to the states.

This trickle-down fuckonomics has trickled down to Indiana, too. Kansas and Indiana are only the first two states in what will almost certainly become a nationwide trend, part of the rightwing's chip away-at-Roe strategy. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/572608/kansas_moves_to_defund_planned_parenthood/

[sharp_stick]

1. Pull that funding

and any road/infrastructure funding until they wake up to the fact that the Federal Government might actually have a role in daily life.

[ourbluenation]

2. baffles the mind. no words. n/t

[freshwest]

3. Next thing, the Phelphs klan will run one of their spawn for governor there. And win.

:puke:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Indiana is about to do it too

It will be interesting to see whether or not Mitch Daniels signs the bill (with a bunch of abortion restrictions)

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Since when does a state get to redirect federal funds? If the funding is for PP, then taking

the money is theft.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. The Federal budget lines would not specifiy a provider

Same with the grants doled out at the department level. PP is probably never mentioned by name in the Federal funding pipeline