Kansas Judge Orders State to Fund Planned Parenthood
Earlier this year, Kansas legislators approved a new budget that transferred taxpayer dollars from Planned Parenthood to family planning groups that don’t provide abortions. This week, a federal judge ruled the state has to fund the group — whether it wants to or not — at least until an appeal on the case is heard.
After Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Western Missouri complained it would have to close one or more of its Kansas facilities by the end of this week if it loses taxpayer support, U.S. District Court Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled the state must keep making quarterly payments to the abortion group while its lawsuit over the new budget goes on at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Planned Parenthood says it’s being unfairly singled out by lawmakers who passed the new budget because it performs abortions.
by Karla Dial, contributing editor to Citizen magazine
http://www.citizenlink.com/2011/08/31/kans...
After Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Western Missouri complained it would have to close one or more of its Kansas facilities by the end of this week if it loses taxpayer support, U.S. District Court Judge J. Thomas Marten ruled the state must keep making quarterly payments to the abortion group while its lawsuit over the new budget goes on at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Planned Parenthood says it’s being unfairly singled out by lawmakers who passed the new budget because it performs abortions.
by Karla Dial, contributing editor to Citizen magazine
http://www.citizenlink.com/2011/08/31/kans...
When I see things like this if causes me to wonder...are things like high blood pressure, heart problems weight, a nine year old who began their periods and was raped by her fathier, pregnancy in the wrong par of the body, to save the mother's life or just left up to the CLOSED MINDED. (smile)
Me, I put the person whose body it is in charge as it is only taht individual that must live with themself every minute of their lives and they can always get a divorce, hope to get medial care, food and shelter for the child or later fight for them not to be sent off to war, get shot to death in school because they have no father / mother or is ftooat, ect. (nup)
Just my two cents worth. (smile)