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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:56 AM Jun 2014

Ohio’s War On Women Isn’t Slowing Down Anytime Soon

Think Progress
Ohio’s War On Women Isn’t Slowing Down Anytime Soon
By Tara Culp-Ressler
June 23, 2014

Over the past several years, Ohio has enacted some of the most restrictive anti-abortion legislation in the nation. And the anti-choice community is showing no signs of stopping.

The president of Ohio Right to Life, Mike Gonidakis, told the Columbus Dispatch on Monday that his group is preparing several new anti-abortion measures for the next legislative session. He’s anticipating a “rather large and robust” legislative agenda for 2015 that will include as many as six anti-choice bills.

“You have to take it a step at a time, you have to change culture,” Gonidakis explained.

That upcoming legislation is on top of several new laws that are already seriously compromising Ohio women’s access to reproductive health care. Thanks to harsh abortion clinic restrictions that were approved last summer, the clinics in the state are struggling to remain open. Several have already closed, and some of Ohio’s largest metropolitan areas are in danger of losing all of their reproductive health facilities altogether. In previous interviews, Gonidakis has claimed that closing all of Ohio’s abortion clinics is well within the bounds of Roe v. Wade....

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Toledo’s last abortion clinic moves step closer to closure theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #2

If someone could post the map from this site I'd appreciate it theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #3

theHandpuppet

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1. How this war was strategically planned from the statehouse

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 10:00 AM

Jun 2014

Gov. Kasich undermines State Medical Board with pro-life appointments: Arthur Lavin
By Guest Columnist/cleveland.com
on December 21, 2013

For more than a century, the State Medical Board of Ohio has been entrusted with establishing the credentials needed to practice medicine, issuing licenses to those with proper credentials and monitoring licensees to make sure they maintain their expertise and uphold high ethical standards.

As the board has applied these standards to the practice of medicine, it also has shielded the profession from the wild political passions of the day. Until now.

Gov. John Kasich is undermining the medical board and the medical profession in two troubling ways: He has appointed a trio of anti-abortion zealots to the board and signed into law unnecessary anti-abortion restrictions that his allies snuck into the state budget.

The board appointees include Ohio Right to Life Executive Director Michael Gonidakis and Sushil Sethi, a surgeon who has used his appointment to promote an anti-abortion agenda... http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/12/gov_john_kasich_underminds_sta.html

theHandpuppet

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2. Toledo’s last abortion clinic moves step closer to closure

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:51 AM

Jun 2014

The Columbus Dispatch
Toledo’s last abortion clinic moves step closer to closure
By Darrel Rowland
The Columbus Dispatch • Tuesday June 17

Toledo’s only remaining abortion clinic moved a step closer to being shut down by the state yesterday.

An Ohio Department of Health hearing examiner ruled that the Capital Care Network’s facility cannot use the University of Michigan hospital 52 miles away for its legally required transfer agreement with a “local” hospital. The decision unveiled yesterday to revoke the clinic’s license upheld two decisions by former Health Director Ted Wymyslo and now will be considered by Lance D. Himes, the department’s acting director.

“We applaud the hearing examiner’s decision, which puts women’s health and patient safety ahead of politics,” said Michael Gonidakis, executive director of Ohio Right to Life. “No state regulator or reasonable person would permit an out-of-state hospital to contract with an Ohio abortion clinic to provide backup services. It’s absurd that this abortion clinic would even make such a request. Sadly, it appears that the clinic will put profits ahead of patient safety and attempt to delay and stall through litigation.”

Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, called the health department’s action part of a “regulatory witch hunt.”

MORE at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/06/16/toledo-clinic-close.html

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3. If someone could post the map from this site I'd appreciate it

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:54 AM

Jun 2014

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/10/17/abortion-restrictions-closing-ohio-clinics.html

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