Salon.com > rape crisis centers http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:19:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ohio governor signs budget laced with antiabortion provisions http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/ohio_gov_signs_budget_laced_with_antiabortion_provisions/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/ohio_gov_signs_budget_laced_with_antiabortion_provisions/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:14:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347257 Ohio Gov. John Kasich made 22 line-item vetoes before signing his state's controversial budget into law on Sunday night, but left untouched the five provisions included to restrict women's health services and abortion access in the state, including a measure to defund Planned Parenthood and redirect state funding from comprehensive reproductive health facilities to faith-based "crisis pregnancy centers."

As Salon has previously reported, the antiabortion amendments in the budget block funding for rape crisis centers that refer women to abortion service providers, impose mandatory ultrasounds on women seeking abortions, and, because of a provision blocking transfer agreements between abortion clinics and hospitals, could shutter four of the state's 12 abortion service providers.

The move was quickly denounced by state Democrats and reproductive rights advocates.

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