By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Proving conclusively that he's not the anti-Sebelius, Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has vetoed the Legislature's attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, which uses state grants to provide contraceptive services to low-income women at two Kansas clinics.
Good for him.
From Parkinson's veto message:
Regardless of one’s views on whether abortion should be allowed in this country, hopefully we can all agree that we should make every effort to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Access to affordable family planning services and contraceptives is critical if we are to continue reducing the number of abortions that occur in this state.
Both of these facilities provide affordable access to contraceptives and family planning services for women who are significantly below the poverty level. These women are most at risk for unplanned pregnancies. The family planning services provided by these facilities help lower the likelihood of unplanned pregnancy, and thus reduce abortions.
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Won another battle, but slowly, surely losing the war
Yes Barb, let's keep funding the billion dollar organization that makes money murdering babies and is under investigation for among other things, protecting pedophiles.
The more this corruption continues, the more you're losing allies.
Jeers for Mark Parkinson's illogical rationale for PP
The Governor of Kansas has read the press release provided by PP, but nothing else. Government tax payer money should NOT be provided to this organization as a subsidy for any service as it merely provides a budgetary shift of resources to another lucrative venture: abortion.
Yeah Babsy
Let those murderers and rapists live, but dammit get back to killing those babies!
Yes yes hip hip horay for
Yes yes hip hip horay for baby murder, indeed.
You liberals will cry like whiney little babies (not to be confused with the babies you kill) over some murdering terrorist being water boarded or stacked up naked like a fraternity hazing...yet you will cheer for the practice of chopping babies into little pieces and sucking them out of the uterus.
Wow