Posted on 06/07/2016 4:25:25 AM PDT by harpu
The administration of former Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) has given Planned Parenthood a waiver allowing it to continue performing abortions even though it goes against state law.
The waiver has many pro-life advocates up in arms because Planned Parenthood failed to comply with Ohio state law a law that makes it mandatory for surgical facilities to have an emergency patient-transfer agreement in place with a local hospital.
Ohio Department of Health Director Richard Hodges issued Planned Parenthood permission by issuing it a variance last week so that the abortion giants clinic in Cincinnatis suburb of Mount Auburn will be able to continue aborting babies for at least another year.
The recently granted variance extends Planned Parenthoods ability to perform abortions through May 31, 2017. Its previously held variance expired earlier this week on Tuesday, and Hodges issuance comes just in time for the scandal-laden abortion provider to continue terminating preborn babies lives without disruption.
In an attempt to justify the Kasich administrations decision to award Planned Parenthood with the new variance while breaking state law, Hodges wrote a letter explaining its reasoning. In it, he insisted that because the worlds largest abortion provider listed four doctors who agreed to provide backup care, the Kasich was persuaded to issue the waiver.
Kasich really pro-life?
Many pro-life leaders and other advocates championing the sanctity of human life expressed dismay over Kasichs decision to issue Planned Parenthoods variance especially after his recent presidential campaign that touted the Ohio governors pro-life stance.
Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati Executive Director Paula Westwood felt betrayed by Kasich standing in Planned Parenthoods corner over the matter.
No hospital in Greater Cincinnati, including Northern Kentucky, will enter into a transfer agreement with Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohios abortion headquarters in Cincinnati, Westwood told LifeSiteNews in an interview.
She maintains that the Kasich administrations siding with Planned Parenthood is irresponsible, dangerous and against the law.
This indicates a concern on the part of the areas leading professional healthcare entities regarding the legitimacy of care clients actually receive at this abortion facility, Westwood continued. Yet the Ohio Department of Health continues to enable Planned Parenthood in Cincinnati to operate despite no transfer agreement and without a license at risk to womens health and safety.
Still not satisfied
Despite Kasich handing Planned Parenthood a victory in his own state, the government-funded abortion provider insists that the state of Ohio hasnt gone far enough to accommodate it.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood and another abortion business are suing Ohio over a new law automatically denying variances if the Department of Health does not respond in 60 days, LIfeSiteNews reports. The plaintiffs claim the new law is unconstitutional, does not increase patient safety and is not medically necessary.
Addressing the matter, U.S. District Judge Michael Barret stayed the new law by issuing a preliminary injunction. Barrett reasoned that he believes that the abortionists will probably succeed in their legal action against the state.
However, the state is not prepared to take the abortionists attack lying down.
Responding to the lawsuit, Assistant Ohio Attorney General Nicole M. Koppitch warned about the dire consequences if the abortionists are successful.
If the clinics have their way
facilities that lack an important safety requirement would be permitted to continue to operate and to continue putting patients at risk, Koppitch explained. It is precisely this concern that the automatic suspension provision seeks to prevent.
Thank you for posting Kasich’s record. There are those who want him for VP - NO WAY!
Actually, Kasich’s own side is too uninformed to know that he is a traitor to conservatism.
Buckeyes are easily malleable.
If we can't win Ohio without Kasich, America is doomed anyways. We need to win or lose in November, not compromise to such an extent that we cannot tell which side won in the end.
Kasich is a lying tool and the people of Ohio are fools for voting for him.
This is the reason the Grand Old Party is no longer grand and soon will be no longer a party, regardless of whether Trump wins or not.
No fan of Kasich and he did work around Ohio legislature to get Medicaid in Ohio, but there are some facts missing in the article.
Only one news outlet is reporting that a waiver was given and that was One News Network which the Christian site picked up.
The point is after searching a few hours, it is unclear where the initial report came from.
From One News Network article:
No hospital in Greater Cincinnati, including Northern Kentucky, will enter into a transfer agreement with Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohios abortion headquarters in Cincinnati,” Westwood told LifeSiteNews in an interview.
Is it possible the waiver as described is a renewal of the waiver for the southwest district of Ohio?
[PDF]UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO ...
http://projects.cincinnati.com/DocumentCloud/abortionsuit.pdf
Sep 1, 2015 - A waiver under Ohio administrative rules ... Suspension Provision, Plaintiffs Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region (PPSWO) and.
History:
Kasich defunded Planned Parenthood in Ohio by signing House Bill 294 in February 2016.
Ohio House passes bill to deny funds to Planned Parenthood | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ohio-plannedparenthood-idUSKCN0VJ2M9
Judge temporarily blocks state from axing Planned Parenthood money
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3433238/posts
Capitol Insider: Ohio likely to appeal ruling blocking Planned ...
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/29/kasich-state-likely-to-appeal-ruling-blocking-planned-parenthood-defunding.html
Kasich shuns OH state law, lets PP resume abortions
http://www.onenewsnow.com/pro-life/2016/06/04/kasich-shuns-oh-state-law-lets-pp-resume-abortions
thanks for posting the Kasich record at Post 32
At best Kasich is a Blue Dog Democrat.
He picked many Trumpsters as well.
The Republican party has been infiltrated. Romney is their leader.
In my town of York, PA the lifelong major backers of Planned Parenthood are the billionaires and millionaires affiliated with both major political parties and known for their donations to politicians as well as PP.
The big business, big banking elites support PP and have a eugenic, dare I say racist view of the world, although they will never admit to it even if confronted about it.
And they wonder why we went with Trump...
I absolutely believe that! Dems are the party of Eugenics, always have been.
Without looking it up may I assume the Mount Auburn area is primarily black?
I can get a frigging parking ticket and these buffoons lie him, Clinton, Obama, and the rest of the government breaks laws all the time and get away with it.
And still there are voters who keep voting for the establishment hacks and think government is good.
Another democrat operative posing as a Republican. The party is absolutely infested with guys like Kashich
Yep
Eventually every American is going to make this observation. If the politicians and bureaucracy are allowed to break the law at will and without consequences why can’t we? Then you descend into chaos and all the armed guards in the world won’t protect the elites or bureaucrats, it’s law of the jungle.
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