How Kasich’s Anti-Choice Policies Are Really Impacting Women In Ohio

How Kasich’s Anti-Choice Policies Are Really Impacting Women In Ohio

by Emily Atkin at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/15/3760507/planned-parenthood-kasich-ohio/

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What the bill does not do, however, is prevent Planned Parenthood or any other organization from performing abortions. It just makes sure Planned Parenthood can't administer women's health programs in Ohio that they've been in charge of for years -- programs that provide services like HIV testing for minorities; check-ins with mothers to prevent infant mortality; and breast cancer screening for low-income women, to name a few.

ThinkProgress spoke with Kelly Novak, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio's director of education and outreach, about how Kasich's defunding is impacting their non-abortion-related programs. The transcript is below, edited for clarity and length.

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TP: What are some of the other programs that you will now be ineligible to provide?

KN: Our Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) -- that brings comprehensive sexual health education and life readiness skills to youth in foster care and juvenile justice settings. We do that in 15 counties across Ohio.

There are also two programs more embedded with our health services side. There’s our Infertility Prevention Project and STI Prevention program, which allows to provide, at no charge to the patient, STI testing and treatment. Through this program, we annually perform over 64,000 of these STI tests. So we will lose funding for that.



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