House Bill 298 / Senate Bill 201 - Family Planning Defunding
How you can help:
Call your State Senator and Representative and tell them to
oppose efforts to defund family planning care.
Planned Parenthood Defunding Talking Points
What the legislation will do:
- The Planned Parenthood defunding bills seek to re-prioritize the federal family planning dollars distributed through the state, re-directing dollars to health departments first and family planning providers last.
- The effect of these bills would be devastating. Nearly 100,000 Planned Parenthood patients may face new fees and longer wait times for cancer screenings, breast exams, and birth control from their trusted health care provider.
- The bills are drafted in such a way that their primary target for defunding is Planned Parenthood and other family planning providers.
The sponsors of Senate Bill 201 (Senator Kris Jordan) and House Bill 298 (Rep. Kristina Roegner), made their intentions known in a letter to their colleagues earlier this year: “I will soon be introducing legislation which will defund entities that perform abortions or maintain or operate a facility where abortions are performed. Planned Parenthood in Ohio serves as a prime example of such an entity.”
Why should I oppose the Planned Parenthood defunding bill?
- For nearly 80 years, Planned Parenthood has been a trusted health care provider in Ohio. Our history means that we have the experience and the infrastructure in place to provide high-quality services to high-need patients at a lower cost than other providers.
- More than 90% of what we do is to provide essential lifesaving cancer screenings, breast exams, birth control, sex education and counseling to nearly 100,000 Ohio women and families, regardless of one’s ability to pay.
- In these difficult economic times, families need more access to affordable health care, not less.
- Planned Parenthood actually saves taxpayers money because the vast majority of health care services provided are preventive. For example, the cost of preventing an unintended pregnancy with birth control is cheaper than the public assistance costs for supporting an unplanned child born to a low-income woman. In Ohio, for every dollar spent on family planning, $4.70 is saved in averted Medicaid birth costs.
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