Kansas Governor Brownback
Defunds Planned Parenthood to Stop Body Part Trafficking
TOPEKA, Kansas — During his State of
the State address on Tuesday, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announced that he has
ordered the state Department of Health and Environment to defund the abortion
giant Planned Parenthood, making Kansas the eighth state to do so.
“In 2011, I signed legislation
stopping most taxpayer funding from going to Planned Parenthood. The time has
come to finish the job,” he declared.
The move is reportedly due in part
to a series of undercover videos released last year by the Center for Medical
Progress (CMP) that show officials with Planned Parenthood from various
locations across the country nonchalantly discussing the strategic removal of
baby bodily organs so that they can meet the demand of scientific corporations.
“Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of
baby body parts is antithetical to our belief in human dignity,” Brownback
stated, noting that he has consequently directed Kansas Department of Health
Secretary Susan Mosier to “ensure that not a single dollar of taxpayer money
goes to Planned Parenthood” for Medicaid. He also asked legislators to submit a
bill that would enshrine the move into state law.
“We must keep working to protect our
most innocent Kansans, the unborn,” Brownback declared. “We have become the
shining city on the hill and the champions of life. … Kansas was founded on the
principal that every life has dignity, that every life has beauty, that every
life has value.”
The governor, a Roman Catholic, also
posted about his move on Facebook, reiterating that “trafficking of baby body parts is antithetical to our belief in human
dignity. No more Kansas Medicaid dollars will go to Planned Parenthood.”
Alabama,
Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Utah and New Hampshire defunded Planned Parenthood
in 2015.
Comments
It’s time
for Georgia to join this group.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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