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Republican Failures Are Distracting Voters Again With A Secret Weapon
Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas are just the latest Republicans to use abortion to distract their residents from bad policies
The latest Republican governors anxious to use their Christian bona fides to distract their residents from bad policies are Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas. The news out of Ohio on the heels of a second-place finish to big-time wrestling celebrity Donald Trump in New Hampshire is that Kasich is just giddy to sign theocratic legislation defunding Planned Parenthood. In Kansas, Sam Brownback distracted his state’s residents from his trickle down disaster driving the state deeper in debt every day by making defunding Planned Parenthood a primary topic of his “state of the state” speech a couple of weeks ago.
Both men have important issues that should be their highest priority, but with an easy target and a superstitious citizenry is so easily distracted, leave it to religious Republicans to take the low road and discount the importance of women’s lives; it is, after all, biblical precedent. The big theocratic push to attack women via Planned Parenthood at the state level is solely because the theocrats in Congress are unable to get past a strong women’s rights advocate in President Obama. The latest ploy is using legislation to bar Planned Parenthood from participating in a federally-funded program, Medicaid. It is something that Kansas and Ohio learned from five other theocratic Republican legislatures that used religion and hubris to interfere with and control a federal program since last July.
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