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.
I hate establishment Repubs more than I ever hated Democrats.
It’s understandable. Because they are traitors to people who vote for them. Today, I voted for Donald Trump. I refused to vote for any of the other Republicans.
Nope. Rope, honey, and fire ants. MUCH more painful. He deserves no less.
Kasich has finally completed his unveiling as a self-centered SOB and liar.
Voters in the Republican primaries obviously knew this which is why he is now a footnote in some political book.
He once held a lot of promise. So sad!
Kasich will face God and be left speechless.
How come this guy, like Voinovich ran as "conservatives" in 1994, then became governor, and golly gee actually are liberal pieces of $hit?
Notice how a democrat NEVER "flips" and starts supporting conservative causes.
"Uniparty" indeed.
The government does this all the time. We can’t carry guns but mexicans can flood in and steal jobs. We can’t start so much as a lemonade stand without paying $500 for a license and filling out a ton of paperwork but planned parenthood can give slut teenagers abortions without consent. The gays can have sex, march in their parades while dressed as strippers but street preachers can be arrested simply for practicing their constitutional rights of free speech and free religion.
“If govenors can pick and choose enforcement of laws, are they not tyrants?”
In this nation the president, an army of bureaucrats, law enforcement officials, elected and unelected attorney generals, and judges in all levels of the court system have discretion in choosing enforcement of laws. Why not governors?
Laws are only for citizens, not the overlords. Laws today are about managing the population and dispensing favors. They have nothing to do with administering justice or the will of the people.
I know, the American people are too uninformed to be self-governed.
Yes, “government is good and cares for me,” say the American people, always uninformed.
Buckeyes must know something at Kasich that they are keeping hidden to everyone else.
Prescott Bush was an original PP groupie.
Prescott Bush was also on the board of CBS back around 1950.
Just saw that POS Kasich on Fox News. Claims people should “unify” and that’s why he’s not endorsing Trump (like THAT makes sense). Never mind giving his word to support the Republican candidate.
Trump should ask the convention be moved to some other state.
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