The new [Ohio state] budget, which takes effect on Monday, includes at least five new anti-abortion provisions. HB 59 will defund Planned Parenthood clinics, reallocate family planning funding to right-wing “crisis pregnancy centers,” strip funding from rape crisis centers that give their clients any information about abortion services, impose harsh restrictions on abortion clinics that will force many of them to shut down, and require doctors to give women seeking abortion information about the presence of a “fetal heartbeat.”The culture war continues, in states from Virginia to Texas to Ohio, and the front-line soldiers on the other side are all white, male and Rethuglican. Amazing how they know what's best for women, and what women really want.
Taken together, the budget amendments ensure that Ohio now has some of the most stringent abortion laws in the nation.
UPDATE: Some are fighting back, um, hard.
