From USA Today:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said today he will sign a controversial bill that cuts off government funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Indiana will become the first state to take such action.
“I supported this bill from the outset, and the recent addition of language guarding against the spending of tax dollars to support abortions creates no reason to alter my position,” said Daniels, a Republican…
This is a good move for the Governor – not least because, of course, cutting off PP from government funding is just common sense, as well as a requirement for common decency. Additionally, though, if Daniels is thinking about getting in to the 2012 race (and rumors abound that he is), then making this move will go a long way towards placating the pro-life movement. Placates me, at any rate…though I do hope that Daniels takes the matter to heart and fully understands that a tactical retreat on this or that issue is ok, but you can’t really have a truce with the left. Not now, not ever.
