Breaking: New Hampshire to become fifth state to defund Planned Parenthood this year
UPDATE, 6:55p: Here’s some more information from Family Research Council, in an email alert this afternoon:
In a surprise move, the state’s Executive Council – which, along with the Governor, oversees all of the Granite State’s contracts – rejected $1.8 million in Planned Parenthood funding over the next two years. Believe it or not, this is the first time that a state contract with Planned Parenthood has been blocked.
6:33p: Actually, New Hampshire may have bumped Wisconsin from the fourth spot.
This is because, while it was previously reported that Wisconsin would become the fourth state this year to defund Planned Parenthood when Governor Scott Walker signs the state budget into law on June 28, it was reported just yesterday, according to the Boston Globe:
New Hampshire’s Executive Council has voted against a $1.8 million contract that would have allowed Planned Parenthood of Northern New England to provide family planning services to low-income people in the state.
The Union Leader clarified that the state is “defunding Planned Parenthood.”
So we’ll have to wait for the dust to settle to know which state gets fourth spot and which gets fifth. Love that this is turning into a competition.
The Executive Council, according to Wikipedia and other sources I read, is part of New Hampshire’s executive branch, along with the governor. Together the two “approve[ ]… all contracts with a value of $5,000 or more.” Yet the Executive Council has veto power over the governor on these contracts. So its word is apparently final.
Part of the reason for the Council’s decision, according to the Union Leader, is that “[Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s] CEO earns in excess of $250,000 a year….”
Chicago pro-lifers will recognize the name of that CEO – Steve Trombley, former CEO of Planned Parenthood of Chicago – who was behind the underhanded construction of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Aurora, Illinois.
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New Hampshire? You don’t say! Who-da-thunk that the stronghold of college education abortion fans would allow such an idea to even take root, much less turn into a real defunding!
Someone we know must be spitting mad right now.
Couldn’t be….isn’t that part of the block of enlightenment? I’m positive I’ve heard that somewhere ;-)
I am somewhat flabbergasted. New Hampshire! Whoo-hoo!
Also, isn’t our dear friend who shall not be presently named from the Enlightened Land™ of Massachusetts?
In all honesty – what difference does it make which number a state is on this line-up?
What matters most is we have 50 states refusing to fund Planned Parenthood.
If they are as beneficial to the general public as they would lead us to believe they are, they can find their own funding. People in the pro-abortion side have tons of money since they aren’t spending it raising children. Let them fund PP instead of those of us who don’t approve.
Check out George Grant’s book – Grand Illusions – to see how this organization really thinks about the people they ‘care’ for.
“In all honesty – what difference does it make which number a state is on this line-up?”
Indeed, you can’t have the title of “Last State That Defunded Planned Parenthood” without “Defunded Planned Parenthood”, and that’s what counts as far as this matter is concerned.
That said, a little healthy competition (one of the most fitting uses I can think of for that term) couldn’t hurt. :-)
They’re getting de-funded left and right this year I see :))) Who could have thought! It’s not gonna shut them all down compltely, but I can bet there will be some babies saved! Woo hoo!
The value in some defunding is breaking the circle of money from govt reimbursements for services to election campaign funds and back.
A couple PPs have already been in trouble for billing/acct problems - SF, San Diego, and El Paso. So, that strategy has probably been diminished. Once the state PP organizations are not as able to contribute to their elected official’s campaigns, the candidates will simply favor the special interests that have relatively more to give.
Once elected officials back of from a group no longer providing campaign donations, the elected official will have less commitment to the legislation that keeps the steady service delivery in place. Family planning services money comes from a handful of state and fed programs, and those seem to be geared to favor PP – like the breast exam and cervical cancer screening program – the money will still be there, but it will go to the other places that have no problem doing the same exact thing – FQHCs, etc.
So, the money loop will suffer.