For Immediate Release
May 21, 2020
Contact: Molly Smith
Phone: 440-668-4049
Abortion Mills Licensing
NOT threatened by SB1
Contact your Senator NOW to pass SB1
(Cleveland)- Recently a letter was published in the media citing concerns over the language of an amendment to Senate Bill 1 that is geared toward giving Ohio’s Elected Lawmakers Greater Oversight on the Powers of an Executive Branch Agency, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH), in a declared emergency context.
The apparent concern of the letter was that the amendment could somehow be used to prohibit the enforcement of statutes relating to the removal of licenses from abortion facilities for violations of their licensure requirements.
The Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio has reviewed these claims, and do not find the same concerns.
For the detailed rebuttal of this claim, please see
here
Senate Bill 1 addresses a specific area of the code, Ohio Revised Code, Section 3701.13
which has no impact on the ability of the ODH to issue or withdraw abortion facilities licenses
. This is not the section of Ohio’s statutes where the laws regarding licensure of an abortion facility or the suspension or revocation of said licensure are located. These are two different areas of the code.
The licensure provisions are in Section 3702.30 of the code and under Ohio Revised Code Section 3702.32. This section provides a series of actions the ODH may take against a facility that is either operating without a license or have violated any of the rules generated under Section 3702.30. None of these provisions regarding rules rely on Section 3701.13 for authorization.
Further, Ohio Revised Code Section 3701.341 grants the authority for the ODH
to set rules related to abortion, post-abortion procedures protecting a woman’s health, pathological reports, humane disposition of fetal remains, and counseling. This section also does not rely on Section 3701.13 for authorization regarding rules.
It is under these rules that the Department has handled previous licensure suspensions and revocations, including those of Martin Haskell’s Women’s Med Center, Dayton, and Capital Care Network of Toledo.
Whatever way the Ohio Senate determines to handle their responsibility to review the House-crafted changes to Senate Bill 1, whether to concur and approve the changes or to not concur and ask for a Committee of Conference with the House
to make changes, it should not be decided upon the assumption that somehow
the language of the amendment which changes Section 3701.13 would cause impediment to the ability to regulate and bring sanctions against a provider of abortion.
Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio continues to urge Ohioans
to call their Senators and tell them to please, pass SB1.
Under the current condition of emergency rule by Governor DeWine,
we are experiencing a spike in abortions and suicides
which could have been averted
if the response to COVID-19 had been vetted
by our elected officials
Tell your Senator to pass SB1 and Stop the Abuse of Power in Ohio
Contact your Senator NOW to pass SB1
