Planned Parenthood suffers defeats in Ohio and Wisconsin

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
4/24/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

New laws will cut funding and save lives.

Planned Parenthood is on the decline in the Midwest. A concentrated effort by Republican lawmakers backed by public support, and prayer, is working to save lives and protect women's health. Recent developments in Ohio and Wisconsin are a sign of this positive trend.

Planned Parenthood is effectively being cut off from taxpayer finds in Ohio.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Last week, Republican lawmakers in both states took substantial steps to protect unborn children by supporting legislation that prevents Planned Parenthood from freely conducting some abortions.

In Ohio, Planned Parenthood stands to lose substantial government funding as Representatives Ron Amstut (R-Wooster) and Kristina Roegner (R-Hudson), attached an amendment to the state budget bill that places Planned Parenthood funding at the bottom of the state's priorities list, which functionally means the organization will get very little, if any money from the state.

"Ohio's abortion industry will no longer feed at the taxpayer trough. Instead, these dedicated health care funds will be offered to those entities where a vast majority of low-income women and their children seek responsible and life-saving services," said Mike Gonidakis, President of Ohio Right to Life.

Meanwhile in Wisconsin, a new law that took effect on Friday has reined in Planned Parenthood. The law bans the use of chemical abortions normally administered orally. The new law also requires physicians to determine if a woman is being coerced by someone else (such as an unhappy father) to obtain the abortion, thus adding another layer of protection for both the woman and the baby.

The law also prohibits abortion counseling via webcam, which is both impersonal and flippant, and thankfully already rare. With the new law, women will have person-to-person counseling and (hopefully) be given access to alternatives that do not require the murder of a child or jeopardizing the mother's health.

Lawmakers targeted chemical abortions because they comprise 26 percent of abortions in the state, according to Wisconsin Right to Life.

Naturally, abortion activists are crying foul over the loss of funding and saying that the Ohio law will cut off funding for cancer screenings and HIV/AIDS initiatives. However, government funds for these important screenings and initiatives can be easily shifted to agencies that respect life and will use the money to save people, not kill them.

There is no requirement that Planned Parenthood receive taxpayer dollars. It is good to see political recognition of this important fact, even if only in a single state.

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Keywords: Planned Parenthood, Ohio, Wisconsin, abortion, law, funding, chemical abortion

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1 - 6 of 6 Comments

Rob
1 year ago
This is defintely something I can get behind. Wish our federal legislators had the guts our state legislators seem to have.
Esther M Ventura Ferencz
1 year ago
I am an Ohioan and I AM SO HAPPY and PROUD that our Repbublican politicians have put PPH at the bottom of the cash list. YES the Lib Journalists are going stark raving mad, using the Aids Disease and other assistance that PPH as reasons to decry this law. Bravo my great OHIO...save babys.
Bulbajer
1 year ago
Good!
DLL
1 year ago
It will take real education to fight this ignorance called abortion? Mandatory healthcare spells Eugenics down the line as abortion gives introduction to and the practice of euthanasia,assisted suicide,termination of the lives for those born with birth defects,newer and much more vague definitions for how actual death is defined,even new definitions of who might be considered to be the living dead due to their ailments.Treatment for degenerative brain disorders in seniors will be a penalty of death for the sufferers of these afflictions. On and on goes the culture of death as compassion becomes a weak trait for those opposed to these practices. Education,and making the funding of these so called progressive policies difficult is smart as well as educational because it exposes the black hearted ness of these practices in the name of so called healthcare. Cost effective healthcare will mean much more of the loss of life as viability of ones life and worth is redefined continually in the ever growing culture of death. It must be stopped. Planned murder care is so called planned healthcare? Reverse these trends now as in time this will all become increasingly much more difficult. Obama care is the new healthcare program to guarantee the institution and maintainence of a culture of death. That sadly is the education,that all of this preferred ignorance,is a mandate a marriage,to be forced upon all,as all will have to be a part of the Obama healthcare program until death do you part.
Diane
1 year ago
Good for these Republican politicians and good for the voters who elected them. Let the PP and all the rest of the proaborts scream and whine all they want. When devils are confronted they howl and whine all the way back to hell. Seems those influenced by demons imitate them in that. Never talk to a devil or with those influenced by them. Send them packing and focus on doing the good will of God, just as these politicians have done.
vance
1 year ago
This is the kind of news I love. Leave to the Republican Party to be the champions for life. The Marxist must be seething over this victory for life. They hate when they can't kill babies.

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