The latest round of political activity by the right-wing leadership of the Kansas GOP features a suit by the state Attorney General against Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Attorney General Kline wants to block Medicaid funding for abortions in Kansas.
The state is allowed to pay for abortions in instances of rape, incest or the life of the woman is endangered. The money comes from Medicaid, a federal- and state-funded program that provides health care to low-income Kansans.
Since October, the state has allocated $1,907 for seven of these abortions, state officials said. In the year before that, it was $999 for three abortions.
So if you are poor and raped and want to end your pregnancy, or your life is endangered by your pregnancy, well, Kline's basically giving a big old F.U. to the poor women who find themselves in that circumstance. He trusts his own judgment over the views of those women, and he's gonna see to it that those fertilized eggs are protected - no matter how many lives he has to destroy in the process.
Posted by armand at August 19, 2005 01:21 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics