USA Today on the first state in the nation to make the move.
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.
.... "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.
Some claimed this would be a defining moment in the controversy over his truce, but as I noted earlier today, there wasn't any reason why this would be incompatible with the truce, as defined by Daniels last year.
This legislation was sent to his desk. He didn't dream it up or sacrifice his agenda for it. And a truce never meant abandoning an ideological position. It just meant turning the tank's turret around a bit.
The real question is how much time he'll give social issues on the campaign trail.
