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Democrats are busy declaring that the \u201cwar on women\u201d is alive and well in Ohio. The state\u2019s legislature is considering a bill that would drastically cut funding to Planned Parenthood, although not eliminate it altogether. Basically, the bill would restructure the way that health or family planning centers get federal dollars. According to Aaron Marshall at Cleveland.com<\/a>, the proposed legislation \u201creprioritizes federal funding for family planning dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nina Turner, a Democrat senator from Cleveland, has resorted to colorful claims<\/a> in her opposition to the reprioritization:<\/p>\n

“Planned Parenthood is necessary for poor, urban and rural areas,” said Turner, referring to the 32 centers run by the organization across the state. “So basically this is saying to hell with poor, black, Latino, urban and rural women.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In reality, the legislation would not cause Ohio to forget about or ignore needy women. Republican Representative Cliff Rosenberger explains<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe aim is to funnel dollars to \u2018local family planning groups that have local knowledge and local access\u2019 that can bring \u2018scarce resources to families that really need it.\u2019\u201d In short, not everyone believes that Planned Parenthood is the only answer women have.<\/p>\n

Representative Rosenberger provides more information<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s not just Planned Parenthood out there offering these services. \u00a0Planned Parenthood makes up 32 out of at least 230 or more organizations. Everybody’s in the same mix. They’re all in this hierarchy system, yet they’re not coming forward and raising Cain about this.<\/p>\n

I think this is a fair and balanced approach at a time when the dollar continues to be squeezed in government spending, and we want to make sure that we’re providing the best resources to women and family planning out there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How exactly would the reprioritization work? Aaron Marshall has the answer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[L]ocal health departments would get the top funding priority, followed by nonpublic federally qualified community health centers. Next to receive funding would be nonpublic groups providing comprehensive primary and preventive care along with family planning services and lastly, nonpublic groups providing stand-alone family planning services such as Planned Parenthood and Wynne-Peaspanen’s agency.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It appears that the only real complaint Democrats can raise is that Planned Parenthood may get booted to the bottom of the list, though PP won\u2019t sit there alone. Comments like those made by Nina Turner, claiming that Planned Parenthood is essential to women, are patently false. Local health departments provide cancer screenings, physical exams, and needed health care to low-income women and their families. Planned Parenthood is needed exactly nowhere in the equation.<\/p>\n

According to the Toledo Blade<\/a><\/em>, \u201c32 Planned Parenthood clinics statewide received a total of $1.7 million\u201d in 2011. No one can be sure how much of the funding would be cut under the proposed legislation, but all parties seem to agree that it would be significant.<\/p>\n

A Democrat representative from Toledo, Teresa Fedor<\/a>, is up in arms about the bill, stating, “These extreme attacks on women are not going to be tolerated in this state.\u00a0 We’re standing with our sisters to say that government has no business in reproductive health in Ohio.” Unfortunately, Representative Fedor seems to forget that the state does indeed have a say in what happens to federal family planning dollars. If the state of Ohio believes that local health departments can better serve the citizens than Planned Parenthood can, the legislature has every right to send the funds in that direction. The cry of \u201cgovernment intrusion\u201d is more than a little disingenuous, since these funds have always been dedicated to reproductive health and distributed at the state’s discretion. Representative Fedor was plenty happy when that same government was directing the funds to Planned Parenthood. It\u2019s now, when the funds may be reprioritized and given to another more effective organization, that she raises an outcry against the government.<\/p>\n

Mike Gonidakis, executive director of Ohio Right to Life, summarizes <\/a>the Democrats\u2019 outcry perfectly:<\/p>\n

This is just a way for Planned Parenthood to keep a piece of their pie.\u00a0 They are acting like they are the only entity that provides health care for low income women and that’s simply not true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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