Gov. Mark Parkinson made the right call today in restoring federal funding for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri that the Legislature had cut. Anti-abortion lawmakers opposed the funding because Planned Parenthood performs abortions at its clinic in Overland Park. But the federal funds aren’t used for abortions; Planned Parenthood said the money only goes to clinics in Hays and Wichita, which provide health and family planning services to low-income Kansans. As Parkinson noted, “Eliminating funding for programs intended to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies does nothing to help reduce abortions in Kansas.” In fact, it could have the opposite result.
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Well, he has the greenies and the fundies upset with him now. I wonder who he’ll pizz of next week?
Uh oh, providing these funds will reduce the number of abortions, otherwise known as Operation Rescue’s bread and butter. They’ll be in an outrage.
Yeah, and schools run by religious organizations recieving money from the government “Say” that they aren’t using the funds for religous indoctrination.
Planned parenthood should be funded by all the liberals and everyone else that wants to donate. They are after all, a non profit organization, arent they?
Leave government money out of it
By the way, I am all for family planning, contaceptive use, and education of teenagers about sex, and ALL it’s effects, good and bad.
That’s fine littlejohn, I donate the PP. How about making all the conservatives pay for all the medical costs for pregnant women, pay for the orphanages, pay for costs related to STDs, pay for costs related to lost work days due to pregnancy, etc. I think my bill will be a lot less.
Sorry, I don;t think the government is supposed to be the piggy bank. People, knowing the facts, and having available alternatives, have to choose on their own, and repsect the consequences of their choices.
Planned Parenthood said the money only goes to clinics in Hays and Wichita, which provide health and family planning services to low-income Kansans.
Yeah, sure it does. (wink, wink)
Let’s have a KBI investigation exactly where the funds do go.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Money well invested if you ask me seeing as how much money goes into programs like WIC and other government funded programs to help people on low incomes feed their children. Unless Operation Rescue can come up with a better program I expect them to donate as well.
So, Maggotpunk, it’s okay to give religious organizations tax dollars to educate kids, because they say they are keeping religious indocrnation out of it?
Back to the original topic, I mean
Parkinson struck language in a budget-balancing bill that would have taken $250,000 from Planned Parenthood and given it to state and local health departments.
“Eliminating funding for programs intended to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies does nothing to help reduce abortions in Kansas,” Parkinson said.
How does giving it the money to state and local health departments eliminate funding for programs
intended to reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies. An swwer, it doesn;t. But it does help him with his political allies.
“Regardless of one’s views on whether abortion should be allowed in the 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,” Parkinson said in his veto message.
Yes, we should make every effort to reduce unplanned pregnancies. Giving planned parenthood money doesn’t.
LJ, those funds have to be accounted for. I don’t know what part of that is so hard for you to understand.
Planned parenthood does help in the very same ways that the health departments do- they provide necessary services to women who need the services.
I suppose that you’d be upset if one of two dillons stores closed down.
“Planned parenthood does help in the very same ways that the health departments do- they provide necessary services to women who need the services.”
SO he lied when he set the money had been cut from programs that helped reduce unplanned pregnancies?
I suppose that you’d be upset if one of two dillons stores closed down.
No, actually I wouldn;t
“SO he lied when he set the money had been cut from programs that helped reduce unplanned pregnancies?”
No he did not, and you can not even make that argument from the quotation you took from Political Mama. The legislature attempted to redirect funds to health departments general accounts, rather than specifically to the reproduction services Planned Parenthood provides. It is unlikely indeed that all, or even most, of the money rerouted to the health departments would have gone to reducing unplanned pregnancies.
Daniel,
“Well, he has the greenies and the fundies upset with him now.”
How can you tell? Both groups are permanently pist off anyway and about most everything.