More than 60 Groups Call on Gov. Kasich to Defund Planned Parenthood

By Published on September 7, 2015

COLUMBUS, OH, September 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-life and pro-family organizations throughout the state of Ohio are putting pressure on governor and presidential candidate John Kasich to defund Planned Parenthood.

A coalition of over sixty Ohio-based groups has signed a letter calling on Kasich to take executive action and end tax funding of the exposed baby organ trafficker. Each group represents a network of supporters, volunteers and leadership committed to protecting innocent human life.

Coalition spokesman Barry Sheets says some underhanded dishonesty is coming from the governor’s mansion. “Callers to the governor’s office are being told that Planned Parenthood has been defunded since 2013,”  he says, which is not true. To the contrary, Sheets says, “[t]he state treasurer’s checkbook shows that their $1.3 million in funding for fiscal year 2014 is the highest level since 2011.”

The letter comes on the heels of explosive undercover videos that show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of human baby parts, some “harvested” while the babies were still alive, and how they illegally modify abortion procedures in order to procure “fresh” organs, including – in Planned Parenthood leaders’ own words – an aborted baby’s “heart,” “liver,” and “brain.”

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has launched an investigation of Ohio’s Planned Parenthood affiliates as a result of the Center for Medical Progress undercover videos.

“Our groups are not calling on Governor Kasich to simply stop Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood” continued Sheets. “We are strongly requesting that every dime of taxpayer support, whether coming from the state directly or through federal pull-down dollars administered by the state, be ended.”

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