AS GOVERNOR John Kasich took steps to cut off government funding for Planned Parenthood in Ohio, his rival, Republican front-runner Donald Trump, offered a slightly less hostile view of the organization. Planned Parenthood does “some very good work,” Trump told Chuck Todd on Sunday’s “Meet the Press.’’ Even so, Trump added, “I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing . . . abortion.” To Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, Trump’s take is a classic distinction without a difference. All the GOP candidates “have committed to completely ending access to legal abortion,” Richards told a crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters on Sunday. “The field writ large on the Republican side is as extreme as anything I’ve ever seen in the Republican Party and in a presidential election.” But any extreme opens a middle. Leave it to the former abortion-rights advocate Trump to try to find it, while Kasich does his thing to stop Planned Parenthood in Ohio and Marco Rubio suggests Clinton supports abortion up until a woman’s due date. Political satirist Samantha Bee called Rubio’s assertion “the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard,” saying it implied Clinton wanted to deliver babies “directly into a Vitamix so that Planned Parenthood can sell it to Whole Foods.” Read more https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...-parenthood/l1S4yZPiyBBaIF7czZ0VqM/story.html
