Sen. Chris McDaniel, a Northern Kentucky Republican running for lieutenant governor, has bought into unfounded insinuations that House Bill 419, to generate donations for rape crisis centers through a box Kentuckians can check on state tax returns, somehow is linked to abortion services.
The sponsor of HB 419, Rep. Chris Harris of Pikeville, who describes himself as a “pro-life Democrat,” insists his bill has nothing to do with abortion.
The state-funded rape crisis centers do not provide any abortion services under a mission narrowly defined by state law and regulations.
Yet HB 419 has been stalled in Mr. McDaniel’s Appropriations and Revenue Committee since March 2.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Killing a good bill
An editorial from the Courier-Journal:
