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May 22, 2009
Any Hopes Gov. Parkinson Different From Sebelius Out the Window As His Veto Puts Abortion Industry First
Statement by Mary Kay Culp, Executive Director, Kansans for Life:
"Any hopes that Governor Parkinson was better than Sebelius on life issues just flew out the window with today's veto of a proviso limiting Title X funds to certain kinds of clinics that do not include Planned Parenthood, the nation's single largest provider of abortions.
"The Governor was wrong to imply in his veto message that it is illegal or against the rules for a state to choose among eligible entities. States are permitted to choose how to spend federal Title X monies as long as the entities chosen are Title X eligible.
"When a private organization like Planned Parenthood gets tax dollars, it frees up their private funds to pay lobbyists to troll for more tax funds, and to lobby against state abortion regulations. And even if the money goes to their clinics that don't do abortions, it frees up the private money they have available for their clinics that do. In addition, even those clinics that don't do abortions, refer for them.
"There is no reason to give Planned Parenthood tax funds when the same services are provided just as easily, and much less politically, by 68 other eligible public and private health care entities in Kansas.
"From a practical point of view, it is simply not good policy to give tax dollars to an organization to prevent pregnancy when that organization stands to make money from the abortion side of their business, when they fail to do their job.
"By vetoing this proviso and leaving Planned Parenthood as a premier Title X recipient in Kansas, Governor Parkinson is saying he doesn't care that they perform abortions, doesn't care that they lobby to keep all abortions, even partial-birth abortions, legal, and doesn't care that they are in trouble across the country for breaking state laws, including our own. But his veto does show that like Sebelius, he cares about the one thing that Planned Parenthood has that public clinics do not: a political arm that works to influence elections !"
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