Shakesville, via AlterNet:
Kansas Moves to Defund Planned ParenthoodWhat 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/