Planned Parenthood sites across Ohio receive notice of state funding termination

[Auggie]

Source: cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio—Planned Parenthood locations across Ohio on Thursday received notice from the Ohio Department of Health that their state funding will end next month.

The notice comes following a federal appeals court ruling this month that upheld a 2016 Ohio law forbidding the state from sending preventive health funding to any organization, or affiliate of an organization, that “performs or promotes” non-therapeutic abortions. The law was signed by former Gov. John Kasich.

The letter from ODH, which was dated March 21, informs the organization’s 26 locations that as of April 20, they will no longer receive funding for a wide variety of programs formerly supported by the state. Last year, ODH gave about $600,000 in grants to Planned Parenthood, according to a spokesman for the department.

The state money funded programs such as sexual assault services; breast and cervical cancer prevention; the STD (sexually transmitted disease) Control program; the Minority HIV/AIDS initiative; as well as five programs designed to reduce infant mortality, including CenteringPregnancy and Moms and Babies First, a neighborhood outreach program targeting high-risk black women.

Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/03/planned-parenthood-sites-across-ohio-receive-notice-of-state-funding-termination.html

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[Botany]

1. And still women vote GOP

[Me.]

2. Ladies...

THese men are not your friends...stop voting for them

[Ohiogal]

3. I hate what these evil misogynistic bastards are doing to my state.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Allow me add this link to Donate to PP in Greater Ohio ...

What a beautiful thing it would be if they magically received around $600K in donations about right now ...

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-greater-ohio/our-donors/how-give

I gave what I could

[OhNo-Really]

5. yes! Can some of the billionaire progressives save these woman?

[mr_lebowski]

6. That'd be amazing. There's a messload of people for whom $600K is friggin couch change ...

This funding cut is friggin' dangerous though, seriously. I do NOT like this one bit. This could spread rapidly ...

[OhNo-Really]

7. Very cruel to impose beliefs on others. Sharia-like.

[mr_lebowski]

8. Prominent Democrats would be very wise to spark up a fundraising drive and raise awareness about

what has just happened in Ohio, IMHO.

Not only is it the right thing to do, but it should garner some favorable press for our team. We need the votes of OH women in 2020, badly.

[OhNo-Really]

14. Agree. Any ideas how to spark action?

[mr_lebowski]

16. Not so much, but I'd think a call to Sherrod Brown's office couldn't hurt ;) (nt)

[OhNo-Really]

18. I liked your link to Ohio PP office. maybe post a short post here

I contributed today. ☺️

[DBoon]

24. or maybe get 60,000 people to donate $10 each

We should not try to find some magical millionaire to support justice.

[deurbano]

10. Thanks for the link! I just donated. I also have Planned Parenthood as my AmazonSmile charity.

[mr_lebowski]

11. I have The Nature Conservancy ... I'm hard pressed to change that, but I'm glad you have PP :) (nt)

[DFW]

20. I just made a donation too

Since some money I had earmarked for my initial primary donations got mothballed because I eliminated all Democratic Senators who publicly encouraged Al Franken to resign, I just gave $500 to the Ohio PP. Just 1199 more people like me, and the shortfall is made up!

[mr_lebowski]

21. WOW, that's friggin awesome ... you just made my day DFW :)

[DFW]

28. Theirs, too, I hope. N/T

[DBoon]

25. I just gave $100

We can make up the funds if enough of us donate

[mr_lebowski]

27. +100!!!

NICE!!!

[machoneman]

30. Nice! I am a tad surprised....

that it is only $600,000. I would have thought for all the hoopla by the anti's that the state gave PP way more dollars. Heck, we can raise that kind of money each year w/o too much trouble.

[stopwastingmymoney]

26. Thank you for the link

Marking for when I’m at my desk tomorrow. Who’s with me?

[BigmanPigman]

9. Kasich....schmuck!

[deurbano]

12. And he's what passes for one of the "better" members of the party of Davis.

[BigmanPigman]

17. The level of the bar is pretty low

for the GOP. It reminds me of the old Keith Olbermann segment "Worse, worser, worst person of the world".

[Chili Pepper]

29. Mike DeWine

Mike DeWine is the governor now. Not sure how Kasich fits into this.

[turbinetree]

13. And just think, there packing courts with more zealots............

[CTyankee]

15. Brave governor in a fight against women getting pap smears and preventing cancer!

Oh, that's right, they serve many women of color.

Sorry, I forgot that you didn't do this, you rotten bastard!

[mr_lebowski]

19. "They driving their Caddies down to P-squared, tossing the shells from their bucket o' lobsters

out their winders ... blabbing on them damn Obama-mama phones and such ... in order to get em some FREE health care ... ON MY DIME, dammit!!!"

[Dawson Leery]

22. A law signed by Kasich.

He is supposed to be the reasonable one.

[roamer65]

23. The Michigan-Ohio border seems more like an international boundary as time passes.

We are taking a different more progressive route up here.

MI is becoming like CA, NY and New England.