Past funding for Parenting and Pregnancy Program
Over the past two years, the state has provided $1 million to organizations focused on new and expectant parents, including pregnancy crisis centers. The new state budget sets aside $7.5 million for the program in the new two-year budget cycle, an increase of $6.5 million.
Fiscal Year 2018 $100,000 $100,000 $79,221 $75,000 $22,026 $52,496
Fiscal Year 2019 $100,000 $100,000 $99,948 $75,000 $62,525 $62,525 the country publish on their websites that some studies have shown a link between abortion and an increased risk for breast cancer.
More recent studies and organizations such as the American Cancer Society and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have concluded that induced abortion does not lead to an increased risk of breast cancer.
Your First Look Women’s Center, associated with Heartbeat of Toledo, cites a risk of future infertility after getting an abortion or multiple abortions. The Mayo Clinic has said that, in general, elective abortion is not thought to cause fertility issues.
“The problem here lies in the fact that they are giving medically inaccurate information. They’re being coercive; they’re outright lying to women,” said Sykes, an Akron Democrat.
The president of Ohio Right to Life, Mike Gonidakis, said the centers’ opponents are out of their depth when they make claims about centers misleading women.
“Not one opponent who makes false claims has ever visited a pregnancy center. And yet they think they’re experts in what we do here in Ohio,” he said.
Aaron Baer, president of the anti-abortion advocacy organization Citizens for Community Values said, “counseling women who are newly pregnant or might be experiencing a crisis pregnancy is a relatively small amount of what they do.”
The centers help women navigate state and local support programs on top of providing supplies to new and expectant mothers, he said.
“The bottom line is that these pregnancy centers all throughout Ohio are helping women in their most vulnerable situations.”