Kasich Works for Women – NOT Planned Parenthood

Katherine Franklin, Director of Communications

Really, Gov. Kasich’s commercial demonstrates the extraordinary lengths he has gone to ensure that women are empowered and healthy in our state.

Whether by fighting human trafficking, ensuring that women have health insurance, or increasing funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings, Gov. Kasich exemplifies the compassion of a truly pro-life leader.

It’s no wonder women prefer Gov. Kasich to pro-abortion Ed FitzGerald by a double-digit lead.

But one pro-abortion group petulantly claims that this ad is “laughable.”  What’s so laughable about opposing human trafficking and supporting access to cancer screenings?

For the last year, the pro-abortion side has attempted to incite panic among women, insisting that women will be left without access to health care and important cancer screenings because taxpayer-funding to Planned Parenthood was cut last year.

But women aren’t buying it.

1. Kasich works for women – NOT Big Abortion. NOT Planned Parenthood.

Our governor has continued to address women’s non-abortion-related health concerns while simultaneously standing by the health and safety of women and their children at abortion mills, undermining the false pro-abortion dichotomy that says one cannot be both pro-life and pro-woman.

We continue to thank Governor Kasich for standing behind the multiple Ohio Right to Life endorsed laws that have saved lives across our state in the last few years:

• Late-term abortion ban

• Judicial bypass revision
• Ban on abortion in public hospitals
• Ban on abortion insurance coverage for local employees
• Federal abstinence grant application
• Pro-life student group protection
• Abortion insurance coverage prevention
• Re-prioritization of family planning funding away from Planned Parenthood
• Heartbeat Informed Consent
• Ban on transfer agreements between abortion clinics and taxpayer-funded hospitals
• Strengthening of abortion clinic regulations

Founded in 1967, Ohio Right to Life, with more than 45 local chapters, is Ohio’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement in Ohio, ORTL works through legislation and education to promote and defend innocent human life from conception to natural death.