Students for Life Rally Against Planned Parenthood at Statehouse
Ohio Statehouse Last Stop on Students for Life Bus Tour
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Katherine Franklin
DATE: Friday, October 9, 2015 PHONE: 614-547-0099 ext. 304
COLUMBUS, Ohio–Today, Ohio Right to Life, Students for Life of America, and Family Research Council Action collaborated to host a press conference, calling for the de-funding of Planned Parenthood. This was the final stop on Students for Life and FRC Action’s Planned Parenthood Project Bus Tour. The bus tour coincides with the ongoing video scandal and investigation of Planned Parenthood officials negotiating the sale of aborted baby parts. This week, the Ohio House Committee on Community and Family Advancement began hearings on Ohio Right to Life’s legislation to de-fund Planned Parenthood.
“What these videos have exposed are practices that pro-lifers have long detested about Planned Parenthood – a callous disregard for human life,” said Stephanie Ranade Krider, executive director of Ohio Right to Life. “Planned Parenthood officials are on record describing how to properly ‘crush’ a human life to procure a child’s organs. You want my tax dollars, Planned Parenthood? Then stop the crushing. Stop the crushing of innocent human lives.”
Ohio Right to Life asks its members to sign their petition to de-fund Planned Parenthood and send a letter of support to their Representative and Senator using their Legislative Action Center at ohiolife.org.
Founded in 1967, Ohio Right to Life, with more than 45 chapters and local affiliates, is Ohio’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. Recognized as the flagship of the pro-life movement in Ohio, ORTL works through legislation and education to promote and defend innocent human life from conception to natural death.
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