1. Defunds Planned Parenthood. Back in April, Ohio’s anti-choice lawmakers amended the budget bill to “re-prioritize” family planning funds in the state. That would ultimately strip about $2 million dollars from the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics. Abortion opponents in Ohio have been especially intent on targeting the national women’s health organization lately. This represents the third time the state’s lawmakers have attempted to defund Planned Parenthood within the past year.
2. Redirects funding to right-wing “crisis pregnancy centers.” Instead of ensuring that Planned Parenthood has the state funding it needs to continue providing preventative health services to an estimated 100,000 Ohio women, the current budget amendment seeks to reallocate family planning money toward “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs). In fact, CPCs are anti-abortion front groups that attempt to dissuade women from choosing to end their pregnancies, and they don’t provide the same health services as Planned Parenthood does. They often don’t employ medical professionals, and they have a long history of using conservative propaganda to prey on vulnerable women who assume they’re receiving care at a full-service health clinic.
3. Threatens to shut down abortion clinics. A Senate committee also added language to the budget bill specifically intended to target abortion providers. The provision in question would ban public hospitals from having “transfer agreements” with abortion clinics to transfer patients who may experience medical complications there. But in Ohio, many abortion providers can’t get licensed by the state’s Department of Health unless they have this type of transfer agreement. If abortion clinics are blocked from fulfilling the current requirements to maintain their license, they will be forced to close their doors. Imposing burdensome requirements on abortion providers, rather than pushing to ban the abortion procedure outright, is a popular anti-choice tactic that’s advancing in states across the country.
4. Strips funding from rape crisis centers that provide women with information about abortion services. The Senate added language from another proposed piece of legislation, HB 108, to the budget bill. That measure would deny state funding to any rape crisis centers that refer their patients to facilities that provide abortion care. Just like the provisions targeting Planned Parenthood, Ohio lawmakers claim this measure is necessary to ensure that state funds don’t finance abortion. But there’s already a state law that prevents that funding from directly paying for abortion services. And preventing rape victims from accessing abortion services is an extremely unpopular policy among the American public.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/07/01/2237701/ohio-budget-signed-into-law/
Flanked by a group of other male officials, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) signed a contentious two-year budget bill into law on Sunday evening. The governor vetoed 22 amendments to HB 59 before approving it, but he left intact several provisions that will severely limit women’s reproductive access.
The new 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.”
Taken together, the budget amendments ensure that Ohio now has some of the most stringent abortion laws in the nation.
way to go ohio
Opposition to the death penalty is part of the Church’s defense of the dignity of human life, he said, and it is “a courageous reaffirmation of the conviction that humanity can successfully confront criminality” without resorting to the suppression of life.
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The Vatican said the Catholic Church is "committed to universal healthcare coverage" in a release Thursday that described a speech by one of its leaders before the World Health Assembly.
Archbishop Zygmunt Zimoski told the meeting in Geneva on Wednesday that the Vatican supports Resolution WHA64.9, a measure that would urge countries to "plan the transition of their health systems to universal coverage."
"My delegation strongly believes that … fundamental values such as equity, human rights and social justice need to become explicit policy objectives," Zimoski said.
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The director of the Vatican press office has strongly endorsed the Obama administration’s plans for gun control.
“The initiatives announced by the United States government in view of limiting and controlling the diffusion and use of arms are certainly a step in the right direction,” said Father Federico Lombardi in his weekly editorial commentary for Vatican Radio. Noting that 47 American religious leaders had issued a call for stricter control on firearms, Father Lombardi said flatly: “I’m with them.”
The Vatican spokesman conceded that firearms are “instruments for legitimate defense.” But he observed that they are also “used to bring threats, violence, and death.” He said that Church leaders will “repeat tirelessly our calls for disarmament.”
“Peace is born from the heart, but it will be easier to achieve if we have fewer weapons in hand,” Father Lombardi stated.
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“Wars” – Pope Francis said – “are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace”. Speaking after the recitation of the Angelus, the Pope asked those present to pray in silence for those who have fallen in war and for all other victims of conflict.
And he spoke of the tragic consequences of war which - he said - brings with it death, destruction, huge economic and environmental damage, as well as the scourge of kidnapping.
Lol democracy
there's nothing left in cleveland anyway.
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jooo posted:The bill doesn't actually ban abortions, it just trolls liberals by requiring the doctor to inform if their baby has a heartbeat.
is this true?
if so then it's pretty disgusting just how patronizingly leftists view the emotional capabilities of women to make choices.
discipline posted:religious scholars worldwide agree the body is ensouled at around the 4th month. this whole "three cells is a human being" bullshit is new as heck
catholics don't think that.
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discipline posted:religious scholars worldwide agree the body is ensouled at around the 4th month. this whole "three cells is a human being" bullshit is new as heck
in the orthodox church, you have to wait approximately 40 days after birth to baptize your child and have it be recognized as being human.
The Orthodox Christian attitude to the Jewish people is seen in an encyclical of 1568 written by Ecumenical Patriarch Metrophanes III (1520-1580) to the Greek Orthodox in Crete (1568) following reports that Jews were being mistreated.
The Patriarch states: "Injustice ... regardless to whomever acted upon or performed against, is still injustice. The unjust person is never relieved of the responsibility of these acts under the pretext that the injustice is done against a heterodox and not to a believer. As our Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospels said do not oppress or accuse anyone falsely; do not make any distinction or give room to the believers to injure those of another belief."
discipline posted:religious scholars worldwide agree the body is ensouled at around the 4th month. this whole "three cells is a human being" bullshit is new as heck
nice to see that religious types have reached a rough consensus as to the timeline of the magic energy ghost
tpaine posted:religious scholars
getfiscal posted:discipline posted:religious scholars worldwide agree the body is ensouled at around the 4th month. this whole "three cells is a human being" bullshit is new as heck
catholics don't think that.
it was the official Church position until around 1860. The soul supposedly went from vegetative, to animal, to human. In the Bible fetuses are treated as property, the unlawful killing of a fetus punishable by a fine the same as killing another mans sheep
The bill doesn't actually ban abortions, it just trolls liberals by requiring the doctor to inform if their baby has a heartbeat.
your waiter should have to do the same
discipline posted:actually it generally correlates with the baby's movements being felt in the womb, but you should know this because you're a daddy
you know what else moves in the womb? literally every species that has a womb
discipline posted:is your baby cute? send me a pic of your baby
