Kansas can pull Planned Parenthood funding - appeals court

Yahoo/Reuters ^ | 3-26-14

[kingattax]

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld a 2011 Kansas law that would stop federal family planning money the state receives from flowing to two Planned Parenthood clinics.

The ruling overturned a Kansas federal judge's preliminary injunction that stopped the state from eliminating the federal funding to family planning clinics Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri operates in Wichita and Hays.

No abortion services are provided at the health centers and Planned Parenthood has said they would lose more than $330,000 in funding, their eligibility for a low-cost drug-purchasing program and it likely would lead to the Hays clinic closing.

Planned Parenthood said it was reviewing its options after the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and remained committed to Kansas women and their families.

[Linda Frances]

Thank God!

[GOP Poet]

If liberals want to support these clinics let them do it openly on their own dime!! That should be the chant for just about every government program from this moment forward!!!

[GOP Poet]

There is no good reason the federal or state or city or country governments should be involved in family planning. It is not like the US has an overpopulation of natural born citizens with parents that are US citizens. In fact more and more that it is a rare breed indeed.

[GOP Poet]

I mean county government

[Fido969]

Arrogant agency assumes it is entitled to the taxpayers’ dime.

[Fido969]

Arrogant agency assumes it is entitled to the taxpayers’ dime.

[FrdmLvr]

Second time in two days an appellate court has made the right decision. Yesterday Michigan’s gay marriage decision was overturned. What’s going on here????!!!!!!

[fwdude]

Now, where’s my little violin.

[posterchild]

God Bless Kansas.

[GeronL]

Corporations are not entitled to taxpayers funds, period