UPDATE: It has been moved to Tuesday & we will be doing a phone bank on Monday with Planned Parenthood encouraging everyone to call the governor to tell him to VETO the amendment. Be respectful when you call:
Governor John Kasich – (614) 466-3555
This event is to pressure Ohio Governor Kasich to use his line-item veto power to remove the two anti-abortion amendments in the Ohio Budget that was passed by the Ohio Senate We will rally and educate both the state government as well as Ohio voters on why these amendments are bad for Ohio.
Both anti-abortion amendments passed in the Senate version of the budget. This includes the amendment that allows Ohio Department of Health (ODH) to ignore a variance request. If this budget is signed into law, all of southwest Ohio could be 
without an abortion provider. As part of the 2013 budget, abortion providers are required to have a transfer agreement with a hospital. This is a medically unnecessary provision, it is purely political. Abortion providers cannot have agreements with state hospitals and many private hospitals are Catholic. For providers that are unable to obtain a transfer agreement, they can apply to the ODH for a variance. The Senate version of the budget states that if ODH does not respond to a variance request within 60 days it is automatically declined.
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