Rauner's cruelty to needy hits new low

If Governor Bruce Rauner entered a limbo contest, he'd slither under a limbo pole an ant would have trouble traversing. The governor displayed his penchant for going low against people in need beyond any sense of compassion or decency in his statement threatening veto of Rep. Sara Feigenholtz's bill HB40, designed to allow women to use Medicaid or state employee health insurance to pay for abortions. Rauner's history on reproductive rights is in direct conflict with this heartless threat, in that he and his foundation have given hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting both Planned Parenthood and the ACLU's Roger Baldwin Foundation, which aims to protect abortion rights laws. Why the switch? No doubt Rauner looked at the votes he needs from the pro life crowd to get re-elected; then decided supporting humane reproductive rights for women in need wouldn't be prudent. That is political pandering at its worst. Even Rauner's two Republican predecessors, Jim Edgar and George Ryan called withholding such relief to those without Rauner's deep pockets 'unconscionable'. Getting back to that limbo contest, no matter what new record low Rauner achieves, each new day brings opportunity to go even lower.