Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bill funding pro-life pregnancy centers in his state. The act will also protect pro-life health care workers.
Life News reports:
Previously, the Ohio Legislature passed a biennial operating budget which maintained several key pro-life provisions, including funding for pregnancy centers that provide help for pregnant women and save babies from abortion.
Lawmakers included $6 million for the Ohio Parenting and Pregnancy Program which provides funding for pregnancy centers. The budget also includes pro-life provisions which protect parents’ conscience rights.
Governor DeWine signed the budget late last night before July 1st, when the state’s new fiscal year begins.
The budget includes [t]he Medical Ethics and Diversity (MED) Act, which ensures doctors and medical professionals cannot be forced to perform medical procedures that violate their conscience or religious beliefs such as abortions. It also allows insurance companies to create insurance plans for businesses and organizations in line with their religious beliefs, resolving the issue an order of nuns called The Little Sisters of the Poor have faced for wanting a plan that doesn’t include abortion coverage.
Previously, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich refused to sign multiple pro-life bills, including a Heartbeat Bill. DeWine has signed pro-life legislation that has made it to his desk.
That is the first decent thing dewine has ever done , I thought no!
Anyone who believes in GOD; also believes that life begins with conception!!! EVERY BABY is a LIFE @ any age. It’s a known fact that once conceived, the baby’s DNA, color of its hair, it’s eyes have been established. Yes, this is factual. Anyone considering abortion needs to realize life began once the moment the female egg was fertilized by the sperm. The heartbeat may not be heard until six weeks but that by no means does not mean that small little life doesn’t exist because it does & we all should know life begins with conception!!!