Iowa governor signs budget cutting Planned Parenthood from sex ed, sex changes from Medicaid
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds gave her signature Friday to a state budget containing two measures denying taxpayer funds to two left-wing social priorities: gender-reassignment surgery and the abortion lobby’s influence over sex education.
Reynolds signed the almost $2 billion budget for the 2020 fiscal year on Friday evening, The Gazette reported. Among its provisions are language to exclude any organization involved in abortions from receiving state sex education grants (which stands to deprive Planned Parenthood of the Heartland of just over $260,000), and to state that the Iowa Civil Rights Act does not require state or local governments to fund gender-reassignment surgery.
“The HHS budget will continue to provide grants to organizations that provide Iowa students with sex education,” Republican state Rep. Joel Fry has previously explained. “We are continuing to provide the same level of...
