Ohio Ping!
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/23/Planned_Parenthood_ruling.html
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Barrett of Cincinnati barred Ohio Department of Health Director Richard Hodges from enforcing a defunding law approved by Republican lawmakers and signed by GOP Gov. John Kasich that was to have taken effect today.
Ruling that Planned Parenthood has demonstrated a “likelihood of success” in winning its legal action, Barrett granted a temporary restraining order through June 6 and ordered the state to reinstate its terminated contracts with the group.
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Funding cut from Planned Parenthood was to be redirected to other health clinics in Ohio. Supporters say it would help provide broader health care coverage across the state, but opponents argued that many of those clinics do not have the services or capacity to do what Planned Parenthood does.
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State funds are forbidden from being used toward abortions. Three Planned Parenthood clinics performed about 30 percent (6,237) of the 21,186 abortions performed in Ohio in 2014 — and 36 percent in Franklin County.
If this isn’t taxation without representation, what is?