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Ohio Democratic Party Statement on Today’s Ruling in
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt
Special to The Truth
The Ohio Democratic Party released the following statement
from Chairman David Pepper and Ohio Democratic Women’s
Caucus Chair Kathy DiCristofaro on today’s U.S. Supreme
Court decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt:
"This decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is a huge victory
for women, as the court struck down a Texas law that
interfered with a woman’s personal decision-making and
ability to get the care they need,” said Pepper. “With this
ruling, it’s time for John Kasich and Mike DeWine to stop
defending similar laws that Republican legislators have put
into place -- laws that do nothing to protect Ohio women and
make it harder for them to access the care they need.”
Today’s decision struck down the admitting privileges and
surgical center requirements in Texas law.
Ohio
law currently requires abortion clinics be licensed as
ambulatory care facilities.
Since Gov. John Kasich took office,
half
of Ohio’s abortion clinics have been forced to close.
“When a woman has decided to end her pregnancy, she should
be able to get the health care she needs,” said DiCristofaro.
“Anti-abortion lawmakers in states across the country,
including here in Ohio, have passed restrictive laws that do
nothing to make abortion safer or support a woman’s
decision-making. Their real agenda is to ban abortion
outright, and since they can’t, they use restrictive laws
that restrict the information that a woman can receive,
delay her, force her to take tests she doesn’t need, allow
people to harass her and force clinics to close. That’s why
it’s critical to help elect Hillary Clinton and stop Donald
Trump, who wants to punish women for making their own health
decisions.”
”This ruling demonstrates how important the 2016 elections
are,” said Pepper. “This fall we will set the course of our
Supreme Court for a generation, and we will also elect new
state legislators, who are on the front lines of the fight
to protect Ohio women.”
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