Anti-choice activists want to know why Planned Parenthood can’t be defunded if there are “800 other Medicaid providers in Indiana.”
Anti-choicers may have failed to defund Planned Parenthood on a federal level, but they sent a warning to conservative politicians to oppose access to contraception or else. And on a state and local level, politicians are listening.
Governor Daniels has an abortion and runs for President.
Indiana is losing millions in health care dollars by “defunding” Planned Parenthood, but many of those clinics don’t even do abortions.
Nearly all women who have sex with men use contraception at some point. So why is anti-contraception sentiment becoming rapidly mainstream on the American right? It’s a combination of a mob mentality and a kneejerk hostility to sex.
Indiana women: Your bodies are now officially political pawns. And Governor Daniels is calling check mate.