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Friday, May 22, 2009
Huelskamp Responds to Governor Parkinson’s Veto of ‘Huelskamp Amendment’
With this veto pen today, Governor Parkinson has taken money away from local health departments, hospitals, and safety net clinics struggling to meet the health care needs of impoverished Kansans. Instead, he has created a taxpayer-funded entitlement to Planned Parenthood, an entity shrouded in controversy and under investigation for more than 100 violations of our state abortion laws. Additionally, it has been recently revealed that Planned Parenthood is likely failing to report to the authorities hundreds of cases of suspected child sexual abuse every year.
As an attorney, Governor Parkinson knows better than to claim that Title X funding is an entitlement – as he suggests in his veto message. Instead, Title X funding uses federal monies in a grant program administered by the States. States have tremendous discretion in use of these funds as indicated in the federal law at 42 USC 300: “In making grants and contracts under this section the Secretary shall take into account the number of patients to be served, the extent to which family planning services are needed locally, the relative need of the applicant, and its capacity to make rapid and effective use of such assistance.”
Clearly, Governor Parkinson is heading down the same pro-abortion path as his predecessor, Kathleen Sebelius.
I sincerely wish he would be more interested in standing up for the taxpayers of Kansas than for the special interests in Topeka.
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